Franz Metzner (politician)

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Franz Metzner

Franz Ludwig Metzner (born May 26, 1895 in Ilmenau , † July 6, 1970 in Essen-Stoppenberg ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ), lawyer and SS leader .

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Metzner attended the Wilhelm-Ernst-Gymnasium in Weimar , where he passed the Abitur in 1914. He then took part in the First World War, where he was promoted to first lieutenant. After the end of the war he studied law , history and philosophy at the universities of Jena , Freiburg and Erlangen . 1921 doctorate he became Dr. iur. He then worked as a journalist for several Central German newspapers before he was appointed press chief of the state government in Thuringia in 1925 . He held this office until 1928. In November 1930 he became a member of the NSDAP (membership number 355.139), Gau propaganda leader in Thuringia and a member of the investigation and arbitration committee of the Thuringia district. From 1930 to 1932 he was also editor of the magazine Der Nationalozialist in Weimar.

From 1932 he moved for the NSDAP in the Thuringian state parliament and on November 12, 1933 in the National Socialist Reichstag . On February 1, 1933, he became personal assistant to the Reich Minister of the Interior, Wilhelm Frick, and was promoted to Ministerialrat on July 1, 1933.

On February 1, 1937, the Reich Sports Leader Hans von Tschammer und Osten entrusted him with the management of both the Reich Boxing Office and the Association of German Pugilers, the association of professional boxers. On September 12, 1937, Metzger joined the SS and was immediately appointed SS-Sturmbannführer and honorary leader in the SD main office. In 1938 he was awarded the Commander's Cross with a Star of the Princely Liechtenstein Order of Merit .

After the outbreak of the Second World War he became a captain in the Landesschützenbataillon 337 . From the end of 1941 to the beginning of 1943 Metzner was the deputy general commissioner in Dnepropetrovsk . In the SS he reached the rank of SS-Oberführer in 1943 . Metzner was promoted to head of the Reich Main Office. In 1942 he took over the post of Vice-President of the International Professional Boxing Association (Associazinoe Pugilaato Professionalistico Europeo - APPE), founded on the initiative of the Italians

After the end of the war, Metzner lived as a retired member of the government in Essen.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
  • Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).
  • Harald Oelrich, "Sports Valuation - World Valuation". Sport in the area of ​​tension in German-Italian foreign policy from 1918 to 1945. Lit Verlag, Münster 2003.
  • Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p.
  • Berno Bahro: “SS sport. Organization, function, meaning ”. Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn a. a. 2013, ISBN 978-3-506-77288-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berno Bahro: "SS Sport. Organization, function, meaning ”. Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn a. a. 2013, p. 155f.
  2. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 406.
  3. ↑ Berno Bahro: 2SS sports. Organization, function, meaning ". Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2013, p. 156.
  4. ^ Entry on Franz Ludwig Metzner at www.e-archiv.li
  5. ↑ Harald Oelrich, “Sports Valuation - World Validity”. Sport in the area of ​​tension in German-Italian foreign policy from 1918 to 1945. Lit Verlag, Münster 2003, p. 519f.
personal data
SURNAME Metzner, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Metzner, Franz Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR, lawyer and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Ilmenau
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1970
Place of death Essen-Stoppenberg