Fritz Hassold

Fritz Hassold (born February 9, 1894 in Mies , Böhmen ; † September 19, 1945 in Pilsen ) was a Czechoslovak lawyer , deputy chairman of the Association of German Academics in Czechoslovakia and a member of the German National Party (DNP) in the Prague Parliament .

Life

Hassold grew up as the son of the editor of the " Mieser Zeitung " and MP Andreas Hassold. In 1913 he began to study law and political science in Prague , which he had to interrupt when the First World War broke out . From 1914 to 1918 he served as a soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army, most recently as a lieutenant in the artillery .

In 1918/19 he was imprisoned in the Czech Republic for a long time in Pilsen because, after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, he was one of the organizers of the "German-Austrian People's Army", which tried to repel the occupation of the Sudeten German territories by Czech troops. Hassold hoped that the province of German Bohemia , proclaimed at the beginning of November 1918 , of which around 95 percent was German-populated, could join the newly founded Republic of German-Austria on the basis of US President Woodrow Wilson's 14-point program . To prevent this, the Czech central government in Prague had military units march into the German settlement areas from around mid-November 1918.

After his release from prison, Hassold resumed his studies at Prague University and graduated in 1923 with a Dr. jur. et rer. pole. During his studies he joined the Teutonia Prague fraternity in 1913 and was considered one of the leading functionaries of the German student body from 1919/20. Hassold was co-founder and chairman of the Sudeten German student body , DSt-Kreis IX "Sudetendeutschland" and a member of the university policy committee of the German fraternity .

Hassold was still known as cand. Jur. Secretary of the Federation of Farmers (BdL) . From 1923 member and later deputy chairman of the general association of German academics in Czechoslovakia. Furthermore, he was active as a journalist and became chief editor and editor of the " Sudetendeutschen Akademiker-Zeitung ", which was the most important journal for German academics in Czechoslovakia. As a member of the German National Party (DNP), he was elected to the Prague Parliament from 1929 to 1933. Shortly after the end of the Second World War , he was arrested in Czechoslovakia and taken to the notorious Bory prison camp near Pilsen, where he died of furunculosis due to the poor hygienic conditions .

For his services to the German student body in Prague, he was made an honorary member of the Germania speaking and reading club for German university students in Prague.

literature

• Harald Lönnecker : "... voluntarily never to leave here ..." The Prague German student body 1867–1945 . SH-Verlag, page 252
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 253-254.
• Fraternity leaves . Volume 35, No. 6, 1921, pp. 192-193