Friedrich Fenz

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Friedrich Josef Fenz (born December 5, 1892 in Gasen , Styria , died February 17, 1943 in the Soviet Union ) was a high-ranking SA leader.

Life

Fenz took part in the First World War as a general staff officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army , fought in a German Freikorps in the Baltic States in 1919 and from 1920 to 1928 belonged first to the Upper Silesian Self-Defense , then to the Styrian Homeland Security .

On February 1, 1928, Fenz joined the Graz local group of the NSDAP with membership number 81.622 . Until the end of 1933 he was the leader of the SA group command post in Südmark in Austria. After an arrest on the Yugoslav side of the Styrian border, he was deported to Germany, where from April 1934 he belonged to the SA organization Hilfswerk Nordwest . Promoted to SA brigade leader in 1936 , Fenz became deputy leader and staff leader of the Kurpfalz SA group in Mannheim and was on the leader's list for the 1936 Reichstag election , but did not obtain a mandate. From January 1 to October 31, 1937 he was the leader of the Kurpfalz SA group and, after having achieved the second highest SA rank by being promoted to group leader , was on the leader's list for the election of the Greater German Reichstag for the 1938 Reichstag election on April 10, 1938 ; again he was not given a seat in the Reichstag. On January 1, 1939, Fenz returned to Graz and began his military service with the rank of captain at the beginning of the Second World War . From September 1, 1941 he was chief commissioner (not in the sense of a police rank, but as an administrative officer) of the main Baranowitschi area .

literature

  • Erich Stockhorst: Five thousand heads . Blick + Bild Verlag, 1967
  • Christian Gerlach: Calculated murders . Hamburger Edition, 1999. ISBN 3930908549

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Schafranek : Mercenaries for the connection. The Austrian Legion 1933-1938. Verlag Czernin, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7076-0331-6 , p. 404.
personal data
SURNAME Fenz, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fenz, Friedrich Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian SA leader
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Gasen , Styria
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1943
Place of death Soviet Union