Franz Binz

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Franz Binz

Franz Josef Binz (born November 2, 1896 in Düren , † June 22, 1965 in Zülpich ) was a member of the Reichstag for the NSDAP.

Life

The son of a railway pack foreman attended elementary school and secondary school in Düren from 1902, which he graduated from in March 1914 with the upper secondary qualification. In April 1914 he joined the Imperial Navy and was trained as a seaman as a cadet at naval schools. From October 1914 he completed an apprenticeship in mechanical engineering in a steam boiler and machine factory . In June 1915, Binz returned to the Navy and, after further training, took the engineering examination in October 1916. During the First World War he served in the North Sea minesweeping fleet and in the submarine escort flotilla. After the end of the war, he was employed in the voluntary demining service from November 1918 to October 1919; awarded the Iron Cross of both classes, Binz was dismissed from the Imperial Navy in 1920 with the rank of lieutenant. Binz returned to Düren and in 1921, after a brief employment with the Reichsbahn, started his own business as a businessman in the paper and printing industry.

From 1921 to 1924 Binz was a member of the SPD . According to his own statements, he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 60.530) and the SA on April 1, 1927, and from 1927 was the local group leader of the NSDAP in Düren and the local propaganda leader there. Organized structures of the NSDAP in the Düren area can only be proven for 1929. Probably from 1930 onwards, Binz published the Düren national newspaper; from 1930 to 1933 he was the editor of the West German observer . From 1929 Binz appeared as a Gau speaker in the Gau Rheinland-Nord, from 1931 he was Reich speaker for the NSDAP. With a brief interruption, Binz was district or district leader of the NSDAP in the Schleiden district in the Eifel from October 1930 to June 1939 . Between May 1932 and April 1933 he also headed the NSDAP in the Bergheim district (Erft) .

In 1931 Binz was sentenced to a 500 RM fine or 50 days in prison for insulting a district administrator . In the same year he received a three-month prison sentence for participating in an SA deployment in Braunschweig . An arrest warrant against Binz issued for this violation of the Republic Protection Act was carried out on January 8, 1932. In his biographical information in the Reichstag handbook, Binz later described himself as “politically persecuted by a letter” and stated that he had “served long prison sentences” .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, Binz became a member of the Reichstag in November 1933 . As district leader for Schleiden, Binz campaigned in 1934 for the establishment of a large party training camp, of which he became the commander. The “ Ordensburg Vogelsang ”, a training center of the NSDAP for the training of its next generation of leaders , was created from the camp . During the construction phase of the “Ordensburg” between September 22, 1934 and July 1, 1935, Binz was the “castle commandant”. From 1934 to 1938, Binz was a contract employee of the German Labor Front (DAF). From 1935 to 1938 he was Gau Commissioner and Deputy Gauobmann of this unified organization of employers and employees and was thus directly subordinate to the Gauleiter for Cologne-Aachen , Joseph Grohé . On January 11, 1939, Binz became the "Reich trustee of work for the Rhineland economic area" as the regional representative of the Reichsleiter of the DAF, Robert Ley , and on September 1, 1943, he was also president of the Gau Labor Office for Cologne-Aachen.

Promoted to SA-Obersturmführer on January 30, 1939 , Binz transferred from the SA to the Reiter-SS (membership number 393.392) on July 1, 1941 , in which he was promoted to Obersturmbannführer in January 1943 . From June to August 1943, Binz was temporarily entrusted with the command of the SS Grenadier Training and Replacement Regiment 14; on August 25, 1944 he was appointed General Command of the XII. SS Army Corps transferred.

At the end of the war, Binz was captured by Allied troops on April 8, 1945 and interned in the Staumühle internment camp near Paderborn until April 12, 1948 . In the denazification , Binz was classified as "incriminated", his appeal against this was unsuccessful. Binz later lived in Heimbach in the Schleiden district and rented holiday homes there.

Peter Binz (1901–1985), NSDAP district leader of Düren from 1931 to 1945, was a brother of Franz Binz.

literature

  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
  • Peter Klefisch (editor): The district leaders of the NSDAP in the districts of Cologne-Aachen, Düsseldorf and Essen. (= Publications of the state archives of North Rhine-Westphalia, Series C, Volume 45) North Rhine-Westphalian Main State Archive, Düsseldorf 2000, ISBN 3-9805419-2-4 .
  • Michael Rademacher: Handbook of the NSDAP Gaue 1928 - 1945. The officials of the NSDAP and their organizations at Gau and district level in Germany and Austria as well as in the Reichsgau Gdansk-West Prussia, Sudetenland and Wartheland. Lingenbrink, Vechta 2000, ISBN 3-8311-0216-3 .
  • Horst Wallraff: National Socialism in the Düren and Jülich districts . Hahne & Schloemer, Düren 2000, pp. 45, 46, 60, 62, 93, 103, 163, 237, 599, as well as Appendix A4: Short biography Franz Binz, ISBN 3-927312-30-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Wallraff: Franz Binz (1896-1965), district leader of the NSDAP at the Rheinische Geschichte portal (accessed on September 8, 2012).
  2. ↑ Biographical information in the handbook of the Reichstag 1933

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personal data
SURNAME Binz, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Binz, Franz Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Düren
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1965
Place of death Zülpich