Hans West

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Hans West

Hans Westen (born June 24, 1891 in Sankt Michael in Obersteiermark , † February 15, 1947 in Prague -Pankraz) was a German industrialist and politician ( SdP , later NSDAP ) in Bohemia . West was the owner of the first Budweiser enamel factory.

Life

The factory owner's son attended high school and then the commercial academy in Vienna. He then gained practical experience in Polish and British enamel factories. As a member of the Austro-Hungarian Army , he took part in the First World War. In 1918 he took over the management of the family business Südböhmische Stanz-Enaillierwerke Franz Westen in Budweis .

Politically, he was initially active in the German National Party . After founding the Sudeten German Home Front (SHF), he acted from 1934 as a local group leader for the party, which was renamed the Sudeten German Party (SdP) in 1935. From 1935 to 1938 he belonged to the party of the State Representation of Bohemia, in 1936 he became a city councilor in Budweis. At the height of the Sudeten crisis , he joined the Sudeten German Freikorps in autumn 1938 and worked there as Chief of Staff of Group II. After the annexation of the Sudetenland by the German Reich as a result of the Munich Agreement and the occupation of the Czech Republic by German troops, he was appointed provisional NSDAP district leader in Budweis in mid-March 1939 and held this position until July 25, 1941. April 25, 1939 he was sent to the Reichstag as a representative for the Germans in the Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and remained so until 1945. From April 1941 to 1945 he was President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Budweis. In the SS he reached the rank of Untersturmführer.

Shortly after the end of the Second World War , he and his family left for Haidmühle in Bavaria in May 1945 . There he was arrested in 1945, taken to Czechoslovakia and imprisoned. He was sentenced to death by the Czechoslovak People's Court and executed in Pankrác prison on February 15, 1947.

literature

  • Karl Adalbert Sedlmeyer : Budweis. Budweiser and Stritschitzer Sprachinsel Miesbach , Bergemann + Mayr, 1979.
  • Joachim Lilla : The representation of the “Reichsgau Sudetenland” and the “Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia” in the Grossdeutsche Reichstag . In: Bohemia . Journal of History and Culture of the Bohemian Lands , Volume 40, Issue 2, 1999, p. 471.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jeremy King: Budweisers into Czechs and Germans: a local history of Bohemian politics, 1848-1948. Princeton University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-691-12234-2 , p. 179. ( Google Books version )
  2. ^ Joachim Lilla: The representation of the "Reichsgau Sudetenland" and the "Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia" in the Grossdeutsche Reichstag . In: Bohemia. Journal of History and Culture of the Bohemian Lands , Volume 40, Issue 2, 1999, p. 471
personal data
SURNAME West, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrialist and politician (NSDAP) in Bohemia
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Sankt Michael in Upper Styria
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1947
Place of death Prague