Georg Gradl

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Georg Gradl

Georg Gradl (born June 30, 1884 in Grub , † October 4, 1950 in Nuremberg ) was a German civil servant and politician (NSDAP).

Live and act

After attending elementary school, Gradl started a civil service career. From 1904 he belonged to the Bavarian 7th Infantry Regiment in Bayreuth . In 1908 Gradl became a civil servant in the city administration of Nuremberg . In the same year he married. From August 1914 until the end of the war, Gradl took part in the First World War with the Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment 6 , from which, according to the information in the Reichstag handbook, he returned 70% war-damaged.

In May 1922 Gradl joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) in the wake of his close friend Julius Streicher , which he rejoined after the party ban was lifted in 1925 ( membership number 4,681). Gradl took on a number of functionaries in the party: from 1927 he headed the office of the NSDAP Gau leadership in Northern Bavaria and in 1928 took over the role of Gau managing director in the Nuremberg NSDAP Gau. Since December 1924 he was also an honorary member of the Nuremberg City Council. In 1928 he married for the second time. After the Second World War , Gradl's wife, a former clerk, reported that the marriage had been a "martyrdom": Since she had thought differently from her husband politically, married life was characterized by "harassment, threats and insults".

Gradl was considered extremely brutal. He caused a sensation not least because of his "unsympathetic fistulous voice". Gradl's political opponents ridiculed him before 1933 as "Streicher's shadow". Furthermore, the mockery of "proud as a peacock - stupid as a pig" made the rounds, the author of which Gradl had been arrested after the " seizure of power " in order to "give him a rub".

In the Reichstag election of March 1933 Gradl was elected to the Reichstag, in which he represented constituency 26 (Franconia). In March 1933 Gradl was one of the members of the Reichstag who voted for the passage of the Enabling Act , which formed the legal basis for building up the Nazi dictatorship.

Gradl continued to hold offices in the NSDAP Gau Franken: from November 1935 he was Gauamtsleiter and Gau judge. Temporarily, presumably between 1937 and 1939, he was Gauobmann of the National Socialist War Victims Care (NSKOV) and Gauamtsleiter of the Office for War Victims Care. In April 1936 Gradl was promoted to SA Standartenführer in the Sturmabteilung (SA) . As a civil servant with the city administration of Nuremberg, he was retired in 1935 as senior bailiff.

Because of the embezzlement of party funds, Gradl was warned in October 1936 by the Supreme Party Court of the NSDAP . The one-year revocation of the ability to hold a party office was not carried out after Hitler's act of grace . In November 1939 Gradl took over the chairmanship of the supervisory board of the widows 'and orphans' fund of the Reich and Staatsdienstpersonals (WWK) at the general insurance company in Munich. On February 21, 1942 Gradl was expelled from the NSDAP by the Supreme Party Court for fraud and enrichment in his work at the WWK. He was later sentenced to prison but again pardoned by Hitler. Gradl's mandate in the Reichstag expired on March 28, 1942 when he was expelled from the NSDAP parliamentary group; Georg Haberkern moved up for him .

After the end of the war, denazification proceedings were carried out against Gradl in September 1947 at the Nuremberg Chamber of Arbitration.

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 , p. 185.

Web links

  • Georg Gradl in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical entry in the Reichstag Handbook 1938
  2. ↑ Boyd L. Dastrup: Crusade in Nuremberg. Military Occupation, 1945-1949 , 1985, p. 39.
  3. ^ Fritz Nadler: Eine Stadt im Schatten Streichers , 1969, p. 150.
  4. ^ Fritz Nadler: Eine Stadt im Schatten Streichers , 1969, p. 123.
  5. ^ Fritz Nadler: Eine Stadt im Schatten Streichers , 1969, p. 149.
  6. ↑ a b Lilla, extras , p. 185.
personal data
SURNAME Gradl, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil servant and politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Grub
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 1950
Place of death Nuremberg