Fritz Monday

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Fritz Franz Montag (born November 14, 1896 in Schermcke , † February 20, 1943 in Poltava ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and SS chief.

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After attending elementary school , Fritz Montag completed a commercial apprenticeship in Hamborn from 1911 to 1914 . In addition, he attended business school. He then earned his living as a merchant in the field of grain and colonial goods as an employee in the property management. From March 21, 1916 to January 9, 1919, Monday took part in the First World War: first with the machine-gun company of the XV Army Corps, then with the reserve battalion 26, recruit depot 54, then the reserve infantry 27 and machine-gun snipers and machine-gun snipers. Division 39, most recently as a private. After the end of the war, Montag worked as a merchant again.

After Montag had been a member of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund since June 1919 , in 1924 he joined the National Socialist Freedom Party , a placeholder party that at that time took the place of the NSDAP, which had been banned since November 1923. When the regular NSDAP was re-established in 1925, it joined on Monday ( membership number 55,027).

On April 9, 1920, Montag was fined 400 Reichsmarks by the Heiligenstadt District Court for exceeding the maximum price for barley sales .

After Montag had co-founded the SS (membership number 27,558) in Mecklenburg himself, he rose to SS-Oberführer by January 1939. Montag worked for the Gau management in the Gau Mecklenburg, especially in the field of propaganda, parallel to his work as a publishing manager at the "Niederdeutscher Beobachter". From 1935 Montag was Gauobmann at the DAF and as successor to Hennecke von Plessen from 1942 Gau economic advisor under Gauleiter Friedrich Hildebrandt . Montag was commandant of the NS-Ordensburg Vogelsang from 1941 until his death in 1943 .

In the Reichstag election on March 29, 1936, he applied unsuccessfully for a mandate.

As an officer in the Waffen SS , Montag took part in World War II , in which he was last employed as head of a staff company.

In mid-February 1943, Montag was seriously injured when he drove into a minefield during the Battle of Kharkov : after he was taken to a hospital in Poltava, where both legs above his knees were amputated, he succumbed to his injuries on February 20. He was buried next to the infantry general Kurt von Briesen in Poltava.

On February 9, 1943 two weeks before his death Monday was after replacement for the late Charles Seemann as a deputy in the Nazi Reichstag fed, where he served as a representative of the constituency (Mecklenburg) until his death on 20 February. His mandate was subsequently continued by Hans-Eugen Sommer .

literature

  • 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 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fritz Montag's membership numbers on www.dws-xip.pl
  2. ↑ Fritz Montag on www.dws-xip.pl
  3. ↑ Vogelsang Chronicle by Franz Albert Heinen, 2005, pp. 58, 61 (pdf)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.foerderverein-nationalpark-eifel.de  
  4. ^ Kurt Meyer : Grenadiers. The Story of Waffen SS General Kurt “Panzer” Meyer , 2005, p. 173.
personal data
SURNAME Monday, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Montag, Fritz Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR and SS-Oberführer
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Schermcke
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1943
Place of death Poltava