Franz Fackler
Franz Xaver Fackler (nickname Franz Fackler ; born October 20, 1895 in Munich , Kingdom of Bavaria , † September 23, 1963 in Munich, Free State of Bavaria ) was a German trade unionist , monarchist , resistance fighter against National Socialism and Christian-social politician.
Life
After an apprenticeship as a baker and businessman, Franz Xaver Fackler was a soldier in the First World War from 1915 to 1917. From 1919 he was district manager of the Christian trade union in Munich. After being a member of the center for a few years , in 1921 he became a founding member of the Christian Social Party , of which he was a member of the board. From 1923 he was a clerk in the employment office. In 1924 he joined the BVP , where he worked in the Munich district committee from 1928 to 1933 . After coming to power in 1933, he stuck to his conservative, monarchist convictions. He was looking for like-minded people for his goal of reestablishing the monarchy in Bavaria. When he wanted to protect a collector against abuse by the National Socialists on the occasion of the Caritas collection in 1935, he was temporarily detained by the police.
At the beginning of 1937 Josef Zott informed Fackler about a monarchist resistance group that had been founded by Heinrich Weiß and later became known as the Harnier Circle . Fackler joined this group and soon attended the secret meetings. Within a very short time he recruited other like-minded people in Christian trade union circles who took part in illegal meetings in Munich inns and private apartments. After consultation with Adolf von Harnier , Josef Zott nominated Franz Fackler as his deputy on February 11, 1938. In the summer of 1937, Fackler was appointed editor.
As a leading member of the Harnier Circle, Fackler was arrested at the beginning of August 1939 together with 125 people from the Harnier Circle. After a detention of nearly five years he was in October 1944 by the People's Court sentenced to two years and three months in prison. Since the sentence had long been exceeded due to the length of his pre-trial detention and he was also considered incapable of detention, he was released.
After the war ended in 1945, Fackler was one of the founders of the Munich CSU and was a member of the Munich city council. In 1946 he was co-founder and deputy state chairman of the VdK Bavaria . In 1948 he founded the publishing house and advertising agency Werbung Fackler . In 1949 he was elected chairman of the CSU parliamentary group . In addition, in 1954 he became regional chairman of the Central Association of Democratic Resistance Fighters and Persecuted Organizations (ZDWV).
In 1960 Fackler received the Golden Citizen Medal from the City of Munich . In 1963 at the Munich settlement on Lerchenauer See the Franz-Fackler-street named after him.
literature
- Christina M. Förster: The Harnier-Kreis: Resistance to National Socialism in Bavaria . Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 1996, ISBN 3-506-79979-7 (also dissertation), pp. 273-276, 291, 296-304, 339, 534, 536f, 549, 555 and 559.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fackler, Franz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fackler, Franz Xaver (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighter during the Nazi era, Bavarian monarchist, CSU member, Munich city council |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 20, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich , Kingdom of Bavaria |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 23, 1963 |
| Place of death | Munich , Free State of Bavaria |