Hans Krebs (politician)

Hans Krebs

Hans Krebs (in front of the microphone, autumn 1938), recording from the Federal Archives

left to right: Wilhelm Stuckart , Wilhelm Frick , Adolf von Bomhard , Konrad Henlein and Hans Krebs on a state visit on September 23, 1938

Hans Krebs (born April 26, 1888 in Iglau , Austria-Hungary , † February 15, 1947 in Prague , Czechoslovakia ) was a German-Bohemian publicist as well as a German national and later a National Socialist politician.

Life

Hans Krebs was the son of a Jihlava cloth maker and innkeeper. In his hometown he attended elementary school and high school. He became involved in the German national workers 'movement and became a member of the German Workers' Party in Aussig . As an editor in Aussig, Vienna and Iglau he edited the party newspaper Deutsche Volkswehr for the Workers' Party and had been state secretary in Bohemia since 1917. In the First World War (1914-1918) he participated as a member of the Austro-Hungarian Army .

After the end of the war in 1918, the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and the establishment of Czechoslovakia , Hans Krebs joined the German National Socialist Workers' Party (DNSAP), of which he was chief executive from 1918 to 1931. He took over the main writing of the National Socialist Correspondence in Bohemia and was a city councilor in Aussig. From 1925 to 1933 he was a DNSAP member of the Prague Parliament. From 1930 to 1932 he was also regional chairman of the party's national sports association. In the course of the so-called Volkssport Trial , parliament lifted its parliamentary immunity in 1933 and Krebs was arrested. He managed to escape and reach the German Reich .

In Germany he became press officer for the Reich Ministry of the Interior in Berlin and was Reichshauptstelleleiter for the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) ( membership number 86). From March 29, 1936 until the liberation from National Socialism in May 1945, Krebs was a member of the Reichstag as a member of the NSDAP with a mandate for constituency 3 (East Berlin). Adolf Hitler awarded him the rank of Gauleiter of the Reichsgau Sudetenland . Krebs belonged to the SS (SS-No. 292.802) and was appointed SS-Brigadführer in 1940 .

After the Sudeten crisis, Hans Krebs participated in the occupation of Czechoslovakia by troops of the German Empire. After the Munich Agreement in October 1938, the annexation of the Sudetenland and its annexation to the German Reich as Reichsgau Sudetenland , he was government president in the Aussig administrative district from 1938 to 1945 . During this time, the November pogrom in 1938 and the destruction of the synagogue in Aussig took place . After 1941, under cancer, the city's Jews were deported to the nearby Theresienstadt concentration camp with onward transport to the extermination camp .

After the end of the Second World War in May 1945, the occupation by troops of the Soviet Union ( Red Army ) and the expulsion of the Germans from Czechoslovakia , Hans Krebs was indicted in Prague in 1947 along with other former members of the National Socialist German Workers' Party. He was sentenced to death for high treason and executed by a People's Court in the Prague Parliament .

Fonts (selection)

Krebs was the author of numerous books and articles. In 1937 he published the book Sudetendeutsche Landeskunde together with Emil Lehmann .

After the end of the war in May 1945, all of his writings in the Soviet occupation zone , later the German Democratic Republic (GDR), were placed on the list of literature to be segregated.

• Catechism of the German labor movement in Austria . Hedeler, Leipzig 1917.
• Power and law. A historical-political consideration . Sudetendeutscher Verlag, Reichenberg (Bohemia), 1922.
• The Kahr Friday . 1923.
• Ed. Together with Otto Prager of the book: Weltfront. A collection of essays by anti-Semitic leaders of all peoples. Weltfront, Aussig 1926 (contributions by Alfred Rosenberg , Tibor von Eckhardt and Theodor Fritsch, among others ).
  • Extended new edition, now with co-ed. Eugen (Frhr. V.) Engelhardt: The world front. Voices on the Jewish question. 1st episode. Nibelungen, Berlin & Leipzig 1935 (new authors including: Alf Wilhelm Frick ; Theodor Fritsch , Friedrich Grimm , Oswald Mosley , Madison Grant ). 2. unchangeable Edition 1938. Foreword: Institute for the Study of the Jewish Question .
• Pan-Europe or Central Europe? Franz Eher, Munich 1931.
• Masaryk and German National Socialism. About the principles and goals of the DNSAP in the Sudeten regions and the Hitler movement in the German Empire . German National Socialist Workers' Party, Abg. Hans Krebs, Kleine Wallstr. 12: NSP, Aussig 1931.
• The fight for the Sudeten German autonomy . Grosse Wallstrasse 15: NSP, Aussig 1933.
• (with Emil Lehmann ) We Sudeten Germans! 3. Edition. Runge, Berlin 1938.
• Battle in Bohemia 4th edition. People and Reich, Berlin 1938.
• with Siegfried Zoglmann : Sudeten Germany marches . Publishing house for social ethics and art care Dr. Friedrich Osmer, Berlin 1938.
• Sudeten Germany marches. In: Erich Kühne (Hrsg.): Sudetendeutscher Schicksalskampf. The authoritative presentation of the Sudeten German distress in its fundamentals, contexts and effects. Leipzig 1938 pp. 53-62.
• Prague and Moscow , 1938.
• Battle in Bohemia , 1938.

literature

• Heribert Sturm : Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries. Published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) . Volume 2. R. Oldenbourg, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-486-52551-4 , p. 295 (with further references).
• Wilhelm Kosch : Biographical State Handbook 1-2 (1963).
• Goldinger:  Cancer Hans. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 240.
• Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 6: Kraatz - Menges. 2nd revised and expanded edition. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-25036-3 , p. 44.
• Moravian border messenger. No. 128, 1976, F. 4.
• Ernst Kienast : The Greater German Reichstag. 1939, 1943.
• Contributions to the local history of the Aussig-Karbitzer district. Volume 18, 1939, pp. 22-24.

Web links

• Hans Krebs in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Literature by and about Hans Krebs in the catalog of the German National Library
• Newspaper article about Hans Krebs in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
• World front as a digitized version in the Freimann Collection of the University Library of the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main: urn : nbn: de: hebis: 30-180014906009
• Pedigree (accessed December 19, 2014)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} German Biographical Encyclopedia. Volume 6: Kraatz - Menges. Munich 2006, p. 44.
2. ^ Goldinger:  Cancer Hans. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 240.
3. ↑ Michael Schwartz : Functionaries with a past. The founding board of the Association of Expellees and the “Third Reich”. Oldenbourg, Munich 2013, p. 224.
4. ^ ^{A b c} Mads Ole Balling: On the socio-cultural structure of the German parliamentarians in Czechoslovakia and other East Central European states 1919-1945 In: Bohemia. Journal of the history and culture of the Czech lands . Volume 36, 1995, number 1, pp. 39-56, here p. 54 (digitized version) .
5. ^ German administration for popular education in the Soviet zone of occupation: List of the literature to be sorted out. Zentralverlag, Berlin 1946, transcript letter K. In: Polunbi.de.
6. ↑ exact content and author information In: Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 397 .