Franz Kuenzel

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Franz Kuenzel

Franz Künzel (born March 3, 1900 in Oberrosenthal near Reichenberg , † July 14, 1986 in Alsfeld ) was a German politician ( BdL , SdP and later NSDAP ).

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After attending elementary school in Katharinberg and the upper secondary school in Reichenberg , Künzel passed the war maturity test in 1918, and then passed the k. Degree until the fall of the Austrian Empire in autumn 1918. and k. 42nd Infantry Regiment to take part in World War I.

As a Sudeten German , Künzel became a citizen of the newly established state of Czechoslovakia in the first post-war years as part of the European reorganization . From 1919 to 1923 he graduated from an agricultural academy or the agricultural department of the German technical university in Prague in Tetschen- Liebwerd as a graduate engineer for agriculture. He then taught from 1924 to 1930 as a teacher at the German Farmers School in Großullersdorf . From 1930 he belonged to the Comradeship Association for Social Science Education . From 1930 to 1935 Künzel made his living as an auditor and director at the Central Association of German Agricultural Cooperatives in Moravia , Silesia and Slovakia in Brno . In 1932 and 1933 he also taught at the educational seminar of the Ministry of Agriculture in Prague.

Künzel was politically active in the farmers ' union , for whom he worked as a functionary in Moravia until his expulsion in March 1935. He then joined the Sudeten German Party (SdP), for which he headed the SdP's office for agricultural policy and peasant issues in Prague from 1935 to 1937 . Also from 1935 Künzel was a member of the main department or the leadership council and from July 1936 of the political committee of the Sudeten German Party, to which he belonged until 1938. In this context he devoted himself in particular to negotiations on the Sudeten crisis . He gained parliamentary experience from 1935 to 1938 as a member of the House of Representatives of the Czechoslovak National Assembly in Prague. In 1938 Künzel took over the management of the Office for People's Organization.

After the German invasion and the annexation of the Sudetenland in the autumn of 1938, Künzel became the general representative of the “standstill commissioner” for the Sudeten German “protective associations” and held this position until September 1940. Konrad Henlein also appointed him district manager of the so-called Gaugrenzlandamt and worked in this position until December 1942. Furthermore, in December 1938 he was appointed regional representative of the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle , was also temporarily regional representative of the “Party” department at the Foreign Office and head of the Sudetenland agricultural cooperatives. After a supplementary election, Künzel entered the National Socialist Reichstag in Berlin on December 4, 1938 , to which he belonged until March 31, 1943 as a result of the resignation of his mandate as a Reich election proposal for the Sudeten German territories. Günther Prager continued his mandate until the end of the war .

In the summer of 1942, Künzel succumbed to the SS in a dispute over the criteria for re-Germanization . His office was subsequently dissolved and converted into an SS-controlled Gauamt für Volkstumsfragen.

From 1944 until the end of the war, Künzel was President of the Central Association of Agricultural Cooperatives in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia . In the SA he achieved the rank of standard leader.

After the Second World War , Künzel first lived in the Soviet occupation zone and from 1949 in the Federal Republic of Germany. He earned his living as a teacher at the Raiffeisenschule in Kassel and from 1956 worked in the Hessian cooperative system. He was a member of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft and headed the Witikobund in Hesse. He also gave information as a contemporary witness.

literature

  • Detlef Brandes : "Umvolkung, Umsiedlung, racial inventory": Nazi "Volkstumsppolitik" in the Bohemian countries . Oldenbourg, Munich, 2012 ISBN 978-3-486-71242-1
  • Joachim Lilla : The representation of the “Reichsgau Sudetenland” and the “Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia” in the Grossdeutsche Reichstag . In: Bohemia . Journal for the History and Culture of the Bohemian Lands , Volume 40, Issue 2, 1999, pp. 462f.
  • Mads Ole Balling: From Reval to Bucharest. Statistical-biographical handbook of the parliamentarians of the German minorities in East Central and Southeastern Europe 1919–1945. Volume 1: Introduction, systematics, sources and methods, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechoslovakia. 1st – 2nd Edition. Documentation Publishing House, Copenhagen 1991, ISBN 87-983829-3-4 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Joachim Lilla: The representation of the "Reichsgau Sudetenland" and the "Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia" in the Greater German Reichstag . In: Bohemia. Journal for the History and Culture of the Bohemian Lands , Volume 40, Issue 2, 1999, pp. 462f.
  2. ↑ Isabel Heinemann: Rasse, Siedlung, deutsches Blut , 2003, p. 177.
  3. ^ A b Mads Ole Balling: From Reval to Bucharest. Statistical-biographical handbook of the parliamentarians of the German minorities in East Central and Southeastern Europe 1919–1945. Volume 1: Introduction, systematics, sources and methods, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechoslovakia. , Copenhagen 1991, p. 422f.
personal data
SURNAME Künzel, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SdP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberrosenthal near Reichenberg
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1986
Place of death Alsfeld