Fritz Koellner

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Fritz Koellner

Fritz Köllner (born May 5, 1904 in Karlsbad ; † November 8, 1986 in Taufkirchen near Munich ) was a Sudeten German politician ( SdP , later NSDAP ) and SA leader .

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After attending elementary school and secondary school in Karlsbad, Köllner passed the final examination at the commercial academy. In the 1920s he worked as a local group and district leader in the Sudeten German Wandervogel in a leading way in the national youth movement. From 1924 to 1925 he was a member of the Czechoslovak Army. He then worked as a bank clerk in Reichenberg and from 1927 at the headquarters of the Landesbank in Prague . There he took on the position of a shop steward for the civil service and became a member of the central board of the bank officials' association. In the German men's gymnastics club in Prague, Köllner was a gymnast and Dietwart . From 1928 to 1932 Köllner studied as a working student at the University of Prague, where he received his doctorate in law in 1932 .

From 1930 he belonged to the Comradeship Association for Social Science Education . On October 1, 1933, Köllner was entrusted by Konrad Henlein with the organizational development of the Sudeten German Home Front (SHF). He then acted as organizational leader of the SHF and the Sudeten German Party (SdP) in the leadership council. From January 4, 1934 to February 16, 1934, Köllner was in Czech pre-trial detention on suspicion of subversive activity. From May 19, 1935 until the German annexation of the Sudeten areas , he was a member of the SdP in the Czechoslovak Parliament.

In September 1938 he left for the National Socialist German Reich . In mid-September 1938, Köllner became the leader of the Silesia group of the Sudeten German Freikorps . On October 1, 1938, he was commissioned by Konrad Henlein to prepare for the takeover of the SdP party by the NSDAP. From November 5, 1938, he was head of the district organization for the Sudetenland district of the NSDAP. On the occasion of the supplementary election on December 4, 1938, to the Reichstag elected in spring 1938, Köllner became a member of the National Socialist Reichstag , to which he was a member until the end of Nazi rule in spring 1945 as a representative of the Sudeten areas. In February 1939, Köllner became Reich Trustee for Labor in the Sudetenland economic area and held this position until the end of the war. From the end of March 1939 to the beginning of March 1940, Köllner served as deputy Gauleiter of the Sudetenland under Konrad Henlein . In the SA , Köllner achieved the rank of SA brigade leader. From July 1940 he did military service in World War II , most recently with the rank of captain.

After the war ended, he was arrested in 1945 and sentenced to 25 years in prison in Prague in February 1947. Then he had to do forced labor in the uranium mine in the Joachimstaler Revier. After he was given amnesty in 1955 and deported to the Federal Republic of Germany, Köllner worked in the Bavarian Ministry of Labor and was promoted to the higher government council there. At the Witikobund he was a member of the board. He gave information as a contemporary witness. Köllner is said to have been recruited as a secret employee by the Czechoslovak State Security Service Státní bezpečnost and to have worked for them, according to a list of names of 15 former Nazi functionaries that emerged in autumn 2001.

He was married to Anna, the divorced wife of the former SdP politician Karl Hermann Frank .

literature

  • Joachim Lilla: The representation of the “Reichsgau Sudetenland” and the “Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia” in the Grossdeutsche Reichstag . In: Bohemia . Journal of the History and Culture of the Bohemian Lands , Volume 40, Issue 2, 1999, p. 460.
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Joachim Lilla: The representation of the "Reichsgau Sudetenland" and the "Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia" in the Grossdeutsche Reichstag . In: Bohemia. Journal of the History and Culture of the Bohemian Lands , Volume 40, Issue 2, 1999, p. 460
  2. ↑ Joachim Lilla: Overview of the NSDAP Gaue, the Gauleiter and the Deputy Gauleiter 1933 to 1945 on Shoa.de
  3. ↑ Jiří Plachý: The instrumentalization of Nazi war criminals by the Czechoslovak State Security after 1945 In: Pavel Žáček (Ed.): Czechoslovakia 1945/48 to 1989. Studies on Communist Rule and Repression [Published on behalf of the Federal Foundation for the Processing of the SED- Dictatorship, Berlin and the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Prague]. Leipzig University Publishing House. Leipzig 2008. ISBN 978-3-86583-264-1 . P. 162
  4. ^ Ernst Frank: Karl Hermann Frank. Minister of State in the Protectorate. Orion Heimreiter Verlag, Heusenstamm 1971, p. 126.
personal data
SURNAME Köllner, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sudeten German politician (NSDAP), MdR, lawyer and SA leader
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Carlsbad
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1986
Place of death Taufkirchen near Munich