Franz Nitsch

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Franz Nitsch (born June 18, 1898 in Wolledorf, Hohenstadt district ; † May 24, 1945 in Moravia, declared dead by the Aachen District Court on December 3, 1962 at that time) was a German politician ( BdL , SdP and later NSDAP )

Nitsch worked as a farmer in his home village. For the Federation of Farmers (BdL) he was the regional chairman of Moravian-Silesia and was involved in the cooperative movement from 1924. In addition, he was deputy chairman of the organized German farmers in Moravia in Brno and head of the district headquarters at BdL. In March 1935 he switched to the Sudeten German Party and was then a member of the SdP in the Czech-Slovak parliament. From 1936 to 1938 he was district leader of the party in Olomouc and was district farmer leader in Mährisch-Schönberg .

After the German annexation of the Sudeten areas in the autumn of 1938 by the National Socialist German Reich , he became Head of State Department III of the Sudetenland regional farmers in Reichenberg. In early 1939 he became a member of the SS , in which he achieved the rank of Obersturmbannführer. During the Second World War he was from June 1941 to March 1943 war chief administrator in the Wehrmacht . On December 14, 1943, he joined the National Socialist Reichstag as a replacement for the resigned MP Wolfgang Richter , to which he was a representative of the Sudetenland until the end of the Nazi regime in spring 1945 .

After the end of the war, he was in custody by the Czechoslovak police, where he was "allegedly mistreated or murdered".

literature

  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
  • Joachim Lilla: The representation of the “Reichsgau Sudetenland” and the “Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia” in the Grossdeutsche Reichstag . In: Bohemia . Journal of the History and Culture of the Bohemian Lands , Volume 40, Issue 2, 1999, p. 464

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 414
  2. a b c Joachim Lilla: The representation of the "Reichsgau Sudetenland" and the "Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia" in the Greater German Reichstag . In: Bohemia. Journal of the History and Culture of the Bohemian Lands , Volume 40, Issue 2, 1999, p. 464