Franz Florian Winter

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Franz Florian Winter (born March 23, 1923 in Maxhütte ; † December 11, 2010 in Tegernsee ) was a Bavarian master butcher , sausage entrepreneur and from April 24, 1965 to 1966 chairman of the Bavarian National Association of the NPD .

Life

Franz Florian Winter's father ran a butcher's shop, the butcher and farmer family was Catholic. He attended secondary school and volunteered for the Air Force . During the Second World War , in which he received several awards, he last had the rank of officer in a fighter squadron. In April 1945 he was shot down while piloting his plane over Berlin. After the end of the war he worked as a butcher in the family business and passed the master craftsman's examination, taught as a specialist teacher at vocational schools, worked as an editor for a specialist newspaper and founded a sausage manufacturing company in Tegernsee.

From 1954 he was politically active and initially joined the CSU , but switched to the German Party , which he also left when it merged with the BHE to form the All-German Party .

After founding the NPD in 1964, Friedrich Thielen and Adolf von Thadden recruited him for the party in 1965. In the same year he became regional chairman in Bavaria. He made the NPD in Bavaria, with 7000 members, the largest regional association in West Germany. In the local elections in March 1966, she won seats in local parliaments and two mayor's posts.

He was seen as a representative of a "moderate" course that wanted to establish the party as a democratic right that distanced itself from historical National Socialism . The conflict arose when at the party congress in Karlsruhe in June 1966 he wanted to include the commitment to “Western culture” in the statutes. He left the party in an argument. His successor was Benno Hermannsdörfer. In 1968 he published the book I believed in the NPD , in which he criticized the party, u. a. he wrote: "The NPD is against being compared to the NSDAP ... But it is only a matter of tactical maneuvers!" In 1987 his work The Lost Eagles was published in Munich . A documentation of the German fighter pilots .

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  1. ↑ Obituary notice. Münchner Merkur , December 13, 2010, accessed on February 27, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Great thing . In: Der Spiegel . No. 46 , 1966, pp. 75-76 ( online ).
  3. ^ Thomas Forstner: National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD), regional association of Bavaria. In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria . February 11, 2013, accessed March 28, 2019 .
  4. ↑ For Toni . In: Der Spiegel . No. 5 , 1968, p. 67-68 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Winter, Franz Florian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NPD)
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Maxhütte-Haidhof
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 2010
Place of death Tegernsee