Arno Chwatal

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Arno Chwatal

Arno Chwatal (born April 24, 1897 in Merseburg , † June 19, 1963 in Berlin-Spandau ) was a German clerk and a national - socialist politician.

Life

Chwatal led u. a. with Hermann Kretzschmann the Berlin local group of the German Socialist Party (DSP) founded on June 9, 1920 , which called itself "National Socialists (Streicher Group)" in reference to its political closeness to Julius Streicher . In the group of 30 members at the time, Chwatal tried to get national union activity, but was not particularly successful.

In the process of dissolving the DSP, Chwatal joined the Munich local group of the NSDAP and on November 19, 1922, participated in the establishment of the Greater German Workers' Party (GDAP) promoted by Gerhard Roßbach , Albert Leo Schlageter and Heinz Oskar Hauenstein in the "Reichskanzler" restaurant in Yorckstrasse. , which served as a cover organization and continuation of the NSDAP, which had recently been banned in Prussia. Chwatal led the GDAP together with Kretzschmann and Karl Fahrenhorst until the ban on January 10, 1923.

In May 1924 Chwatal was elected to the Reichstag for constituency 11 (Merseburg) and represented the National Socialist Freedom Party there in the second electoral period . In August of that year he was involved in the founding of the Reichsbund Völkischer Kampfgewerkschafter and edited its official organ, Der Völkische Arbeiterunioner . During Adolf Hitler's imprisonment in the fortress, Chwatal cooperated with the GVG in this capacity , but in the spring of 1925 ceased his trade union activities.

After the war, Chwatal campaigned for the writer Eberhard König (1871–1949), whose writings had been banned in Austria, by writing to the Federal Ministry of Education on October 30, 1946, in which, in contrast to “alle [r ] Hitlerei “praised the aesthetic qualities of royal literature.

In the Soviet occupation zone and the German Democratic Republic , Chwatal's own books were included in the list of literature to be sorted out . In the Federal Republic of Germany he acted as editor of the journal Der Kraftquell published by Horch in Neckarsulm (subtitle: "Monthly for the order of the law of life in all areas; organ of the International Working Group for the Protection of Life in Science and Practice eV"), which appeared from 1956 to 1961.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data according to Martin Schumacher (ed.): MdR, the members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, p. 79.
  2. ^ A b Martin Schuster: The SA in the National Socialist "seizure of power" in Berlin and Brandenburg 1926-1934. Technical University of Berlin 2005, pp. 17f, 22.
  3. ↑ Othmar Plöckinger: History of a book: Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf": 1922–1945; a publication by the Institute for Contemporary History. Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, p. 110f. ISBN 3-486-57956-8 .
  4. ^ Claudia Wagner: The Central Commission to Combat Nazi Literature: Literature cleaning in Austrian. (PDF, 2.8 MB) University of Vienna, 2005, p. 53.
  5. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-c.html
  6. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit-c.html
personal data
SURNAME Chwatal, Arno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sales clerk and politician (DSP, GDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Merseburg
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1963
Place of death Berlin-Spandau