Franz Gutsmiedl

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Franz Gutsmiedl

Franz Gutsmiedl (born April 16, 1901 in Grainet ; † unknown) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and SA leader .

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After attending elementary school (1907 to 1912) and the upper secondary school in Regensburg , Gutsmiedl completed a commercial apprenticeship from 1915 to 1918. He also worked in agriculture.

From August to November 1918 Gutsmiedl took part in the last phase of the First World War as a war volunteer with the 11th Regensburg Infantry Regiment . After the war, Gutsmiedl fought with the Löwenfeld Freikorps in Upper Silesia . In 1920 he was accepted into the Reichsmarine , where he was stationed in Stralsund and Kiel from 1920 to 1924 . Also since 1920 he was politically active in circles of the extreme political right. So he first became a member of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund and the Bundes Oberland , before joining the National Socialists in the mid-1920s .

Between 1924 and 1926 Gutsmiedl earned his living in agriculture. At this time he joined the NSDAP, for which he founded the local group Oranienburg and Glienicke, Niederbarnim district in 1925 . From 1926 to 1927 he took over his first higher party office as chief executive of the party in the Gau Berlin-Brandenburg before he returned to agriculture in 1927 for health reasons, in which he remained active for the following five years. In September 1932 he became head of the agricultural department at the highest level of the political organization of the NSDAP. In addition, he temporarily acted as SA leader.

After the National Socialist seizure of power Gutsmiedl was entrusted as a member of the DAF on May 2, 1933 with the management of the German Agricultural Workers 'Association , which soon afterwards all agricultural workers' organizations were incorporated. In addition, he became a member of the Great Council of the General Association of German Workers. In terms of journalism, Gutsmiedl distinguished himself as the editor of the magazine Der deutsche Landarbeiter as well as all the specialist journals of the German Agricultural Workers' Association.

From November 1933 to March 1936 Gutsmiedl also sat as a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for constituency 31 (Württemberg) . Although he ran again as a candidate in the Reichstag election on March 29, 1936, he received no more mandate.

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Web links

Franz Gutsmiedl in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

  1. Dominique Venner : Mercenaries without pay. The German Freikorps, 1918-1923 , 1984, p. 296.