Franz Smolcic

Franz Smolcic (born May 25, 1908 in Königsberg an der Eger , Bohemia , † after 1977 in Canada ) was a Sudeten German-Canadian political activist.

Life and activity

Smolcic was originally a miner by profession. In the 1930s he worked in the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Czechoslovakia , DSAP, and as a functionary in the "Union of Miners in the ČSR".

Smolcic did his military service in the Czechoslovak Army in 1930/31 and was mobilized during the Sudeten crisis in 1938. As a result of the German takeover of the Sudentenland in autumn 1938, he had to move to the interior of Czechoslovakia and emigrated to Great Britain in February 1939 . From there he later moved to Canada, where he settled as a farmer.

After his emigration, the National Socialist police authorities classified Smolcic as an enemy of the state: In the spring of 1940, the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin placed him on the special wanted list GB , a list of people who would be succeeded by the occupying forces in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht Special SS commandos were to be identified and arrested with special priority.

From 1960 to 1962 Smolcic was deputy chairman and from 1962 chairman of the Sudeten Club Edmonton. In 1962 he became a board member of the Central Association of Sudeten German Organizations in Canada .

In 1977 Smolcic was found in Edmonton .

literature

• Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Vol. 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur 1980, p. 706

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry on Smolcic on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London)