Gustav Zunkel

Kurt Gustav Zunkel (born November 19, 1886 in Ollendorf , †  December 8, 1934 in Weimar ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

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Zunkel was born the son of a pastor. He attended elementary school in Vieselbach and the Wilhelm Ernst grammar school in Weimar. Zunkel studied history and philology (Greek, Latin) in Jena and Berlin . In 1910 he received his doctorate there. phil. He then belonged to the 83rd Infantry Regiment. In 1911 he passed the first state examination, followed in March 1914 by the second state examination (final pedagogical examination). Then he was hired on April 1, 1914 as a teacher at the Alexandrinum high school in Jena.

From 1914 to 1918 Zunkel took part in the First World War, in which he was wounded twice and was awarded the Iron Cross of both classes.

In 1919 he became a teacher at the Weimar secondary school.

Zunkel joined the NSDAP in the mid-1920s. He later became a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA) and the Schutzstaffel (SS).

In September 1930 Zunkel was elected to the Reichstag as his party's candidate for constituency 12 (Thuringia) , to which he was a member until November 1933. He had been a city councilor in Weimar since 1929. From 1930 to 1931 Zunkel also served as a voluntary specialist advisor for secondary schools in the Thuringian Ministry of Education under Wilhelm Frick . In addition, he was group leader in the staff of the Supreme SA Leader (OSAF), that is, Adolf Hitler, since the early 1930s . In July 1932, Zunkel became SA group leader in Thuringia.

A few months after the National Socialist " seizure of power " in 1933, Zunkel became head of the school department of the Prussian Ministry of Culture. Soon after, he was appointed to the Thuringian state government ( Marschler cabinet ) as the successor to the resigned Fritz Sauckel , of which he was a member until his death the following year.

During the National Socialist rule, Gustav-Zunkel-Platz in Erfurt and Gustav-Zunkel-Straße in Gera were named after him. In addition, a Weimar SA standard was named after him.

Fonts

• Studies on Greek history from 395-386 , 1911. (Dissertation)

Web links

• Gustav Zunkel in the database of members of the Reichstag