Friedrich von Franz

Friedrich von Franz (born March 6, 1886 in Prague , † July 1945 in Yugoslavia ) was a National Socialist politician and Lord Mayor of Klagenfurt .

Life

Friedrich von Franz studied at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 1908. jur., then he was employed in Troppau as a kuk court chancellery concept officer. During the First World War he was at the front and then worked in the Austrian Ministry of the Interior and with Federal Chancellor Ignaz Seipel from 1918 to 1924 . From 1925 to 1933 he was district captain of the St. Veit an der Glan district , but was removed from his post as a National Socialist in 1934 and retired early.

After the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany , he was appointed mayor of Klagenfurt 1938th During his tenure, numerous neighboring communities were incorporated, the urban area increased from 618 to 5,174 hectares, the population rose from 29,671 to 56,701 inhabitants. The German municipal code of 1935 was introduced (hence the title of Lord Mayor).

Many streets and squares have been renamed and all newspapers have been discontinued. The Carinthian border call took its place .

The young and already small Jewish community in Klagenfurt, the majority of which had come to the city after the end of the First World War (1934: 269 members), was almost completely wiped out during this time. The Reichspogromnacht of November 9, 1938 also affected Klagenfurt: The prayer house in Platzgasse and individual Jewish apartments were demolished, the Jewish cemetery in St. Ruprecht was desecrated. The bank accounts of the Jews in Carinthia were blocked, but the money is said to have been used in cooperation with the religious community to cover the travel expenses of the emigrating Jews, which enabled more Jews to find safety in Carinthia than in other regions. In May 1939, nine Jews were still living in Klagenfurt. Unless they emigrated, most of them were arrested after the outbreak of war in September 1939 and deported to concentration camps. In 1951, nine citizens of the Jewish faith lived in Klagenfurt.

The Klagenfurt City Theater was reopened and modernized, and the Canal Valley settlement was built for resettled Kanaltaler .

In 1939 the Second World War broke out and on January 16, 1944 the first air raid on Klagenfurt was carried out. The Nazi rule ended on May 8, 1945. One day earlier, on May 7, 1945, Friedrich von Franz was abducted by Yugoslav partisans together with his son and wife . He and his son were shot in July 1945, his wife in September the following year.

literature

• Gotbert Moro (ed.): The state capital Klagenfurt. From their past and present. 2 volumes. Self-published by the state capital, Klagenfurt 1970.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online. Austrian National Library, accessed on December 1, 2017 . 
2. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Klagenfurt. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 

predecessor	Office	successor
Adolf Wolf	Mayor of Klagenfurt 1938–1945	Friedrich Schatzmayer