Gottfried Krczal

Gottfried Krczal

Gottfried "Friedl" Krczal , from 1942 Gottfried Bergener (born October 26, 1885 in Bergen , Nikolsburg district; † September 30, 1966 in Nuremberg ) was a Sudeten German politician ( SdP , later NSDAP ) and SA leader .

Life

Bergener was born the son of a community secretary. After attending elementary school in Bergen and the upper secondary school in Znojmo, Gottfried Krczal worked from December 1, 1903 to December 21, 1935 as a civil servant at the Workers' Accident Insurance Institute for Moravia and Silesia , based in Brno . During the First World War Krczal took part as a front officer in the South Moravian Infantry Regiment No. 99, Znojmo , and was taken prisoner in Italy. In addition, he was involved in the national gymnastics movement, in which he held the office of deputy chairman in the Gau Süd-Moravia of the Federation of Germans; in 1926 he was Gau managing director and from 1930 to 1935 Gauobmann of the Turngau South Moravia. He was a close associate of Konrad Heinlein and from 1934 to 1935 deputy chairman of the German Gymnastics Association. He was also Gau writer and Gau manager of the Gaubote .

From May 1935, Krczal was a Senator of the Sudeten German Party (SdP) in the Czechoslovak Parliament and since then has been a member of the board of the parliamentary club of senators and members of the SdP. On October 1, 1936, he officiated as treasurer and from May 1, 1938 as chief judge of the SdP. From September 23, 1938 to October 7, 1938 he was imprisoned by the Czechoslovak police in Brno against the backdrop of the Sudeten crisis . After the annexation of the Sudeten areas by the German Reich in October 1938 as a result of the Munich Agreement , he was a member of the NS Gauleitung Sudetenland from November 1938 to 1943 and became head or later chairman of the party's local district court. After the supplementary election on December 4, 1938, Krczal joined the National Socialist Reichstag , to which he was a member until the end of Nazi rule in spring 1945, on the Reich election proposal for the Sudeten German territories . In 1939 he became a member of the Libertas Brno fraternity . In 1941 he was division head of the NSDAP. From 1943 he was chief director of the Moravia Accident Insurance Institute in Brno. In the SA Krczal achieved the rank of Standartenführer.

After the war he was a member of the Volkssturm until September 1946 in Soviet captivity. He then took up residence in Hildburghausen , Thuringia , where he was elected mayor in 1946. The choice was not confirmed. From 1950 he lived in Weitersroda . During a return trip from Salzburg , he died in Nuremberg Central Station .

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , p. 81.
• 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 .
• Joachim Lilla: The representation of the “Reichsgau Sudetenland” and the “Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia” in the Grossdeutsche Reichstag . In: Bohemia . Journal for History and Culture of the Bohemian Lands , Volume 40, Issue 2, 1999, pp. 461f.

Web links

• Gottfried Krczal in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: AE. Heidelberg 1996, p. 81.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Joachim Lilla: The representation of the "Reichsgau Sudetenland" and the "Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia" in the Greater German Reichstag . In: Bohemia. Journal for History and Culture of the Bohemian Lands , Volume 40, Issue 2, 1999, pp. 461f.