Fritz Kleiner

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Fritz Kleiner

Fritz Kleiner (born May 6, 1893 in Beuthen , † October 8, 1974 in Stuttgart ) was a German politician ( DNVP ). He was a member of the Reichstag from 1929 to 1938, with the exception of a few months in 1932.

Kleiner attended middle school and high school in Katowice and then studied law and political science at the Universities of Halle , Munich and Breslau , where he also received his doctorate . In Breslau he joined the academic gymnastics club Suevia Breslau (today Landsmannschaft Saxo-Suevia Erlangen ). Kleiner served as a soldier at the front throughout the First World War , most recently with the rank of lieutenant in the reserve in the Landwehr Field Artillery Regiment 4.

From November 1918, the Little Reich Organizer of the United Associations was loyal to Oberschlesier . During the conflict between Poland and the German Reich over the state affiliation of Upper Silesia, they sought to remain in the German Reich. Later Kleiner was chief editor of the Bytomian East German Morning Post . Since 1922 he was the owner of a high, deep and reinforced concrete company in Beuthen.

Smaller was a member of the DNVP city council of Beuthen until 1933 and a member of the Upper Silesian provincial council until 1932 . In December 1929 he stood for the first time for the DNVP in the Reichstag when he moved up for the MP Edgar Wolf in parliament. In the end, Kleiner was re-elected to the Reichstag, first in constituency 9 (Oppeln) and in the 1936 election in constituency 14 (Weser-Ems). With the exception of a few months in 1932, when he was not re-elected in the short sixth electoral term, he was a member of parliament until 1938 , even after the National Socialist " seizure of power ". Since he did not join the NSDAP, he was a guest of the NSDAP parliamentary group from November 1933. In 1938, Kleiner was on the list of proposals for the Reichstag , but was no longer given a mandate. From October 1933 he was a full member of the Academy for German Law .

During the Second World War he was taken prisoner of war. In August 1948 he was the founder and until his death also chairman of the board of the refugee housing cooperative (Flüwo) in Stuttgart. He was also a member of the council of the Oberschlesier Landsmannschaft .

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  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
  • Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 192.
  • Jörn Petrick: Memorial book of the Saxo-Suevia Landsmannschaft zu Erlangen. In memory of our deceased federal brothers (1878-2010) self-published, Erlangen 2010.

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