Günther Arndt (politician)

Günther Arndt

Günther Hermann Richard Arndt (born December 1, 1894 in Lomnitz, Hirschberg district , † May 18, 1975 in Pretoria , South Africa) was a German National Socialist and member of the Reichstag for the NSDAP .

Life

He was the son of the landowner Richard Arndt and attended elementary school and various high schools in Hirschberg, Reichenbach and Tarnowitz from 1901 to 1914 . From 1914 to 1920 he was a professional soldier : first as a flag squire for the 2nd Litthau Field Artillery Regiment No. 37 , he was promoted to lieutenant on January 6, 1915 . During the First World War , Arndt was first a regimental adjutant, then from August 1917 leader of a gun battery. He was wounded four times at the front, two of them seriously. The loss of a leg led to retirement from active military service. When he was first lieutenant a. D. was retired from the Reichswehr , he had received the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd Class and the Silver Wound Badge . In civil life, Arndt was an agricultural officer in the Polish part of Upper Silesia from 1920 to 1926 . Until 1931 he worked as a self-employed farmer on his own property in the former County of Glatz .

In 1929 Arndt joined the NSDAP and was elected to the district council of Glatz . In 1931 he became a member of the SS with the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer; From September 1, 1931 to June 1932, he was in charge of the 8th SS standard “Lower Silesia” in Liegnitz . Arndt belonged to the Prussian state parliament from April 24, 1932 to October 14, 1933 as a member of the NSDAP parliamentary group.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, Arndt held various positions in the labor service : from February to October 1933 he was regional group leader of the labor service of the NSDAP in Silesia, then until the end of the Second World War he was the regional labor leader of Arbeitsgau XI Mittelschlesien in Breslau . This became part of the Reich Labor Service (RAD) in 1935 . From April 20, 1939, Arndt was general labor leader in the RAD. From July 11, 1934, he was a member of the Reichstag, which was insignificant during the Nazi era ; Arndt succeeded Edmund Forschbach , who had been urged to resign from his mandate in connection with the " Röhm Putsch ".

Little is known about Arndt's life after the end of World War II . Apparently he was temporarily in Allied detention after the end of the war. He died in May 1975 in Pretoria , South Africa. It is not known whether he was only temporarily in South Africa or whether he emigrated there.

literature

• Martin Döring: "Parliamentary arm of the movement". The National Socialists in the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic. (= Contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties. , Volume 130) Droste, Düsseldorf, 2001. ISBN 3-7700-5237-4 .
• 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 , p. 11.
• Erich Stockhorst: 5000 heads: who was what in the 3rd Reich? 2nd edition, Arndt , Kiel 1985. ISBN 3-88741-117-X .

Web links

• Günther Arndt in the database of members of the Reichstag