Franz Hunglinger

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Franz Seraph Hans Hunglinger (born February 6, 1883 in Passau , † September 18, 1944 in Harkirchen ) was a German officer and police officer.

Life

family

Hunglinger was the son of a councilor . In 1910 he married Hertha von Klenze, with whom Hunglinger had two children.

Military career

In his youth, Hunglinger attended grammar school for three years and the cadet corps for six years . In 1901 he joined the 2nd Uhlan Regiment "King" of the Bavarian Army in Ansbach as an ensign . After his assignment to the war school , he was promoted to lieutenant in 1903 . In 1909 Hunglinger resigned from the army for a short time, only to be reinstated the following year. He came to the 8th Chevaulegers Regiment in Dillingen on the Danube . Promoted to first lieutenant in 1911 , Hunglinger graduated from the equitation institute for further training by 1913. The outbreak of the First World War prevented him from being drafted to the War Academy in October 1914 , although he had qualified for it.

With the mobilization , Hunglinger came to the 1st Infantry Division , where he was initially employed as a commander of the divisional headquarters and in the same year as an orderly officer . With the division he took part in the fighting in Lorraine and France. Promoted to Rittmeister in 1915 , he was promoted to Adjutant of the division the following year . In 1917 Hunglinger was the commander of the III. Battalion of the 2nd Infantry Regiment "Kronprinz" on the Western Front , before he was transferred to the 2nd Infantry Division as Second General Staff Officer . His last activity during the war was as an officer in a special position with the General Staff of the II Army Corps .

After the end of the war, Hunglinger was sent to the Peace Commission of the Prussian General Staff and to the War History Department of the General Staff in Munich , before he was retired from military service as a major .

Police career

In 1919 he was accepted into the police service and transferred to the Munich city command. In 1920 he was appointed police major in the Bavarian State Commissariat. In the following years he played an important role as adjutant to the Bavarian police chief Hans von Seißer within the conservative-restorative plans around the Bavarian State Commissioner Gustav von Kahr .

On November 8 and 9, 1923, Hunglinger played an important role in the events surrounding the Hitler putsch in Munich: On the evening of November 8, Hitler used the opportunity of a public meeting chaired by Kahr in the Munich Bürgerbräukeller to discuss the national revolution and to call for the armed overthrow of the Berlin government. To this end, he and armed supporters took control of the assembly in the Bürgerbräu. Hunglinger's role that evening was later regularly given strong attention in reports and considerations of the November putsch: He was the only participant in the meeting in the Bürgerbräukeller who stood in Hitler's way when he was preparing to take over the leadership of the meeting. Hitler was only able to get Hunglinger out of the way with the help of his weapon and some of his supporters. In 1924 he testified before the Munich People's Court :

“Perhaps I may find out that the gentleman I threatened with the pistol is Major Hunglinger. He put his hands in his pocket and I had to think he was going to shoot me. So I put the gun to his chest myself. "

In the further course of the evening Hunglinger was involved in the negotiations between the State Commissioner General Kahr, General Lossow and his superior Seisser on the one hand and the putschists on the other. At the request of Erich Ludendorff , he was supposed to persuade Kahr to join the putsch. In the further course of the night he finally managed to leave the Bürgerbräukeller together with Kahr and Seißer, and to organize the suppression of the putsch on November 9, 1923.

In April 1924, Hunglinger took part in the Munich Hitler trial as a witness. On this occasion, Hitler expressed his appreciation of him, in contrast to his three superiors - for whom he had only disregard for their alleged breach of their word to join his putsch and then not to do so - with appreciation:

“ Later I said to my other gentlemen: This is the only officer I have respect for. I went on to say that I had no respect for the others, had acted pathetically, only to break their word in the end. That was the only officer I have respect for because he faced me. "

After the trial ended, Hunglinger continued his career in the police for almost nine years. From 1928 to 1931 he was a training officer at the Munich-Land Command and then as a lieutenant colonel in charge of the advanced training course for police officers. At the beginning of 1933 he was appointed head of Section Command II of the Munich Police Police, before retiring as a police colonel at his own request on April 21, 1933, a few weeks after the National Socialists came to power.

Further life

After Hunglinger's withdrawal from the public, the rumor arose that he had been murdered shortly after the Nazi system was established. This was first reported by Hans Beimler in his 1933 report "Im Mörderlager Dachau", in which he described in detail the torture of Hunglinger. It is possible that Beimler confused Hunglinger with another police officer. Then the murder of the policeman was published in the so-called Brown Book . and then established itself as a persistent wandering error in the literature. So said z. E.g. Joachim Fest in his Hitler biography that Hunglinger was killed in 1933 when he added Ali Höhler , Erik Jan Hanussen and Erhard Heiden to the group of people who were killed by the National Socialists that year to settle old bills .

In the further course of the Nazi era, Hunglinger worked within an anti-Nazi circle around the former Bavarian Crown Prince Rupprecht , who later became part of the so-called Sperr group around the former Minister of State Franz Sperr . In the group that met in the apartments of Sperr, the former Reichswehr Minister Otto Gessler and von Rupprecht's former cabinet chief Franz von Redwitz , the communication between the members, according to Wagner, took place solely through Hungliger.

Fonts

  • The KB 8th Chevauleger Regiment. In: memorial sheets of the Bavarian Army. Max Schick publishing house. Munich 1938.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Domarus [Ed.]: Reden, Schriften, Orders: February 1925 to January 1933. 1992. P. 500.
  2. ↑ Hans Beimler, In the Dachau murder camp. Friedbert Mühldorfer added a biographical sketch . PapyRossa Verlag Cologne 2012, pp. 44f., 49, 51.
  3. ↑ Brown Book on Reichstag Fire and Hitler Terror. The original Brown Book from 1933. 1973. p. 300.
  4. ↑ Joachim Fest: Hitler. 2002. p. 837.
  5. ↑ Christoph Wagner: Development, rule and decline of the National Socialist movement. P. 514.
personal data
SURNAME Hunglinger, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hunglinger, Franz Seaph Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and police officer
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Passau
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1944
Place of death Harkirchen