Fritz Metzger (politician)

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Fritz Metzger (* before 1934 in Savino Selo , German  Torschau , Batschka , † after April 1943) was a politician and association official in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the Kingdom of Hungary .

Life

The graduate farmer Fritz Metzger was a Yugoslav-German innovator from the very beginning in 1934/35 . He was the deputy of the "Leader of the Renewal Movement", Jakob Awender . With Hans Albrecht and Gustav Halwax , Metzger was one of the first "youth leaders" with National Socialist influences. Metzger, Gauleiter of the Batschka renewal movement, was briefly imprisoned by the Radical People's Party and its Interior Minister Anton Korošec in May 1938 "for the protection of the state" on the instructions of the government of Milan Stojadinović . In 1939, Metzger demanded the introduction of the leader principle in the Swabian-German cultural association . After the National Socialists took over the Kulturbund, Metzger was appointed "Head of the Farmers Office" by ethnic group leader Josef Janko . In December 1940, while Janko was suffering from a health problem, he commissioned Metzger to request weapons from the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle for personal protection of the ethnic group leadership in the event that war broke out.

After the end of the hostilities between Yugoslavia and the Axis Powers, Metzger stayed in the Batschka, which was claimed by Hungary, and became a "country farmer leader" in the Volksbund of Germans in Hungary . The Batschka regional management of the Kulturbund acted very self-confidently after the Batschka became part of Hungary in 1941 and demanded the recognition of the Kulturbund as a corporation under public law and the partial autonomy of German-speaking communities; however, neither was granted by the Hungarian government. Within the faction of the radical Batschka renewers, Fritz Metzger belonged to the "ideological wing" and acted against the "too soft" line of the Hungarian ethnic group leader Franz Anton Basch . In Budapest he was appointed country director of the homeland economic war service . This service ordered u. a. also the fields of those Germans who did military service in the Royal Hungarian Army in order to better express "the unity and unified front of the Southeast Germans" as a contribution to "increasing the economic performance of the Southeast European German ethnic groups". Metzger was of the opinion that both the German peasants who settled in the Middle Ages and those who immigrated in the 18th century had two tasks: “as defensive farmers to withstand the impact of the East” and to consolidate Central European culture by “peasant order and economic culture “Brought into the country. The Danube Swabians “mastered both tasks in an exemplary manner”. Shortly after the Waffen SS advertising in Hungary was completed, leading Volksbund officials received their draft order for the Royal Hungarian Army, including Fritz Metzger, the head of the State Farmers Office.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Michael Lehmann, u. a .: The Catholic Danube Swabians in the successor states 1918–1945 . Pannonia-Verlag, Freilassing 1972, p. 424. In: Georg Wildmann , Friedrich Spiegel-Schmidt: The Germans in Hungary 1918–1996 , note 346.
  2. ↑ Klaus Popa : Bio-bibliographical manual of German ethnic groups in Southeast Europe, letter M. 2010, pp. 34–36.
  3. ^ A b Josef Janko : The way and the end of the German ethnic group in Yugoslavia. Stocker, 1982. ISBN 3-7020-0415-7 , p. 156.
  4. ^ Friedrich Spiegel-Schmidt, Loránt Tilkovsky, Gerhard Seewann , Norbert Spannenberger : files of the people's court process against Franz A. Basch, ethnic group leader of the Germans in Hungary, Budapest 1945/46. Oldenbourg, 1999. ISBN 3-486-56485-4 , p. 46.
  5. ^ Franz Wilhelm: Center of the German Movement in Syrmia, Slavonia and Croatia, Chapter 10.1: Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Ruma documentation 1745–1945, Donauschwäbische Kulturstiftung. P. 145.
  6. ^ Josef Janko: The way and the end of the German ethnic group in Yugoslavia. P. 35
  7. ^ The echo: With supplement German Export Revue. Weekly newspaper for politics, literature, export and import. Issue 54, p. 52.
  8. ^ Valentin Oberkersch : The Germans in Syrmia, Slavonia, Croatia and Bosnia. Donauschwäbische Kulturstiftung, working group for Donauschwäbische Heimat- und Volksforschung 1989. ISBN 3-926276-07-X , p. 244.
  9. ^ Johann Böhm : The German ethnic group in Yugoslavia 1918-1941: domestic and foreign policy as symptoms of the relationship between the German minority and the Yugoslav government. Peter Lang, 2009. ISBN 3-631-59557-3 , p. 265.
  10. ↑ Dušan Biber : Nacizem in Nemci v Jugoslaviji: 1933-1941. Cankarjeva založba, 1966. p. 384.
  11. ^ Valentin Oberkersch: The Germans in Syrmia, Slavonia, Croatia and Bosnia. Donauschwäbische Kulturstiftung, working group for Donauschwäbische Heimat- und Volksforschung 1989. ISBN 3-926276-07-X , p. 267.
  12. ^ Josef Janko: The way and the end of the German ethnic group in Yugoslavia.
  13. ^ Georg Wildmann, Friedrich Spiegel-Schmidt: History of the Hungarian Germans.
  14. ↑ Frank-Rutger Hausmann: "Even in war the muses are not silent": the German Scientific Institutes in World War II. Max Planck Institute for History, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2002. ISBN 3-525-35181-X , p. 49.
  15. ^ Norbert Spannenberger: The People's League of Germans in Hungary 1938–1944 under Horthy and Hitler. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2005. ISBN 3-486-57728-X , p. 467.
  16. ↑ Norbert Spannenberger, pp. 336, 337
  17. ↑ Norbert Spannenberger, p. 315.
  18. ↑ Norbert Spannenberger, p. 323.
personal data
SURNAME Metzger, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Politician and association functionary in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the Kingdom of Hungary
DATE OF BIRTH before 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Savino Selo , today Serbia
DATE OF DEATH after April 1943