Franz Maierhofer
Franz Maierhofer (born December 21, 1897 in Rosenheim , † August 22, 1943 near Charkow ) was a Gauleiter of the NSDAP for Lower Bavaria - Upper Palatinate .
Life
The tenth child of a civil servant family grew up in Regensburg, learned the profession of elementary school teacher in Amberg from 1920 to 1922, interrupted by the First World War , in which he participated as a volunteer. In 1917 he was wounded and taken prisoner by the French, from which he returned to Germany in 1920. In 1923 he became an assistant teacher and in 1925 he was employed as a teacher in Auerbach in the Upper Palatinate .
On April 11, 1927, he joined the NSDAP (membership number 59,524) and in November 1929 became Gauleiter of the Upper Palatinate Gau. A year later he became a member of the Reichstag . On April 1, 1932, the previous Gaue Oberpfalz and Niederbayern were merged and Maierhofer was Gauleiter of the new Gau Niederbayern-Oberpfalz. He was dismissed from the public school service on November 1, 1932.
Since he had not properly allocated the SA contributions to which they were entitled, he was relieved of his Gauleiter post on January 13, 1933.
In November 1933 he joined the SS , in 1936 he became SS-Obersturmbannführer . As head of the NSDAP, Reichsleitung he ran on March 29, 1936 in the Reichstag election, but received no mandate. At that time he lived in Blumberg near Berlin.
Later, in addition to military service, he was appointed head of the department for church affairs in the Bavarian State Service in January 1940.
A short time later, however, there was also another deployment on the Eastern Front. In 1943 he was promoted to major, but fell at Kharkov on August 22, 1943.
literature
- Karl Höffkes : Hitler's Political Generals. The Gauleiter of the 3rd Reich. A biographical reference work. Grabert , Tübingen 1997, ISBN 3-87847-163-7 .
Web links
- Franz Maierhofer in the database of members of the Reichstag
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maierhofer, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (NSDAP), MdR, Gauleiter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rosenheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 22, 1943 |
| Place of death | Kharkov |