Friedrich Zippelius

Friedrich "Fritz" Zippelius (born August 29, 1901 in Brüx , Austria-Hungary ; † May 28, 1990 in Ruhpolding ) was a Sudeten German lawyer and politician (SdP).

Life

Born as the son of a senior official, Zippelius studied law and political science in Prague after attending the Staatsoberrealgymnasium in Brüx from 1921 to 1926 , where he became a member of the Carolina Prague fraternity in 1921 . He passed his exams in 1923 and 1928 and was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD . After his studies and internship, he worked as a lawyer in Teplitz-Schönau from 1934 to 1938 , primarily as a criminal defense lawyer.

He became politically active in the early 1920s; in 1923 he heard Adolf Hitler speak in Munich. and was involved in the German National Socialist Workers' Party (DNSAP) in Czechoslovakia , where he was tasked, among other things, with recruiting Marxist workers for National Socialism as a student trainee (he worked as a bricklayer and farm worker ) . After the DNSAP was banned, he switched to the Sudeten German Home Front (membership no. 4896), from 1935 Sudeten German Party . From 1934 to 1938 he headed the Teplitz local group of the party and was district leader in Laun . From 1935 to 1938 he was a member of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly in Czechoslovakia for the SdP.

After the Munich Agreement in 1938 and the incorporation of the predominantly German-speaking areas into the German Reich from 1933 to 1945 , he became a member of the NSDAP (No. 6600854) and in November 1938 was entrusted with the development of the NSDAP district Teplitz-Schönau, which he then became district leader briefly was and was taken over into the Sudetenland Gauleitung. From December 1938 on he worked initially as a provisional and from March 1939 officially in the Sudetengau , Troppau administrative district , as regional president . In 1939 he joined the SS and shortly thereafter was promoted to SS-Standartenführer , in June 1939 to SS-Oberführer and in 1940 to SS-Brigadführer in Staff Section XXIV. From November 1942 he was on hold in this position. He was seen as a womanizer and bon vivant and attracted negative attention several times, so that he was expelled from the SS in October 1942. The background to these measures is said to have been a scandalous appearance by Zippelius “during a tour of the Reich Treasurer Franz Xaver Schwarz (1875–1947) in the Sudetengau, during which he smashed windows in his hotel in Bad Karlsbrunn near Freudenthal while he was drunk , harassed around 300 spa guests and Gauleiter Konrad Henlein is said to have challenged to a boxing match ”. In the spring of 1943 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht , although Konrad Henlein stood up for him with Heinrich Himmler , which, however, should only have induced Friedrich Zippelius to give Friedrich Zippelius the opportunity "to prove his drive at the front". According to Czech sources, however, the party reprimanded him for his moderate attitude towards Czechs in his administrative district.

Zippelius was wounded in the Second World War (1939-1945) in American captivity and was unemployed after his release from 1947 to 1951 before he found employment as a farm worker and crane operator and in 1952 worked under the name of Franz Hortig at the Rheydt cable works. From 1956 he was an employee in the Ministry of Finance in North Rhine-Westphalia (Burden Equalization Office) and then worked again as a lawyer in Düsseldorf . In 1967 he took up residence in Ruhpolding and belonged to the Witikobund .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft , pp. 395–397.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Joachim Lilla: The representation of the "Reichsgau Sudetenland" and the "Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia" in the Grossdeutsche Reichstag , p. 453
3. ↑ Mads Ole Balling: On the socio-cultural structure of the German parliamentarians in Czechoslovakia and other East Central European countries 1919–1945 . In: »Bohemia. Journal for the History and Culture of the Bohemian Lands «, Vol. 36, Number 1, 1995, p. 55

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographisches Lexikon der Deutschen fraternity , Vol. I: politicians , subband 8: Supplement L-Z . Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , pp. 395-397.
• Hansjörg Brockmann, Rudolf Simm, Jürgen Wokoek: The Academic Burschenschaft Carolina zu Prague in Munich commemorates their deceased, fallen and murdered brothers, copyright 2014, under short biographies: Zippelius, Friedrich, p. 143
• Joachim Lilla: The representation of the “Reichsgau Sudetenland” and the “Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia” in the Grossdeutsche Reichstag . In: » Bohemia . Journal for the History and Culture of the Bohemian Lands «, Vol. 40, Issue 2, 1999, p. 453.
• Detlef Brandes : "Umvolkung, Umsiedlung, racial inventory": Nazi "Volkstumsppolitik" in the Bohemian countries . Oldenbourg, Munich, 2012 ISBN 978-3-486-71242-1