Hans Kurth

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Hans Kurth

Hans Kurth (born February 16, 1896 in Hagelfelde , † January 11, 1973 in Tübingen ) was a German politician.

Life

After visiting the Pedagogium in Ostrava to Kurth announced the outbreak of the First World War as a volunteer for field use. He received the Iron Cross, 2nd and 1st class. In 1918 he was taken prisoner by the US . After his return he studied agriculture at the University of Königsberg . Impoverished by the devaluation of paper money, he subsequently hired himself out as a miner in the Staßfurt potash mine.

In May 1924 Kurth was elected to the Reichstag for constituency 7 (Breslau) , where he initially represented the German Social Party , but switched to the National Socialist Freedom Party in the same electoral period .

In 1928 a criminal case against Kurth was pending before the Wroclaw public prosecutor for insulting the Berlin police vice-president in the press.

At the beginning of the 1930s he became editor of the magazine Am heiligen Quell Deutscher Kraft , which was published by Erich and Mathilde Ludendorff , a work that he finished again in 1934. He then became editor of the breakthrough - combat paper for German faith, race and nationality , a magazine of the German faith movement .

literature

  • The truth about Ludendorff and his struggle. A coherent representation . Munich: Ludendorffs Volkswarte Verlag 1931.
  • The world interpretation of Dr. Mathilde Ludendorffs. An introduction to the philosopher's works . Munich: Ludendorffs Volkswarte Verlag 1932.

Web links

  • Hans Kurth in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

  1. Life data from: Biography of Hans Kurth . In: Heinrich Best and Wilhelm H. Schröder : Database of Members of the National Assembly and the German Reichstag 1919–1933 (Biorab – Weimar)
  2. Negotiations of the Reichstag, Volume 383, Appendix No. 583 (Supplement to No. 3)
  3. Criminal case before the public prosecutor's office in Breslau against Kurth, Hans from Breslau (born February 16, 1898 in Hagelfelde) for insulting the Berlin police vice-president in the press. In: German Digital Library . Retrieved October 27, 2015 .