Hugo Liehm

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Hugo Liehm (* 1879 in Luditz , then Austria-Hungary ; † 1958 in Bad Reichenhall ) was a Sudeten German politician ( DNP , SdP , NSDAP ).

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Liehm was an entrepreneur with a clarinet factory . He was a member of the Comradeship Association (KB), the Society for German National Education of the Czechoslovak Republic and chairman of the so-called "Gaus Egerland" of the Association of Germans in Bohemia , which joined the German Böhmerwaldbund .

As a member of the Luditz city council, he and two accomplices hid the 28 kilogram heavy hymn book of the city in a sawmill after the formation of the Czechoslovak Republic after the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic, which was expensive in the Prague bookmaker Jan Táborský .

From 1926 to 1935 he was a member of the DNP mayor of his hometown Luditz, at that time also the seat of the district administration of the Luditz district . In October 1933 he belonged to the small group, including Othmar Kallina , who founded the Sudeten German Home Front in Eger, based on the idea of Konrad Henlein "Zum Ewigen Licht" , from which the SdP emerged in 1935.

In 1935 he entered the Czechoslovak National Assembly as Senator of the SdP, which was dissolved in 1939. Due to the Munich Agreement , his Senate mandate was canceled in October 1938. Liehm became a member of the NSDAP and, after the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, personally led the search for the aforementioned Luditzer hymn book, which was hidden by the historian and Prague city ​​archivist Václav Vojtíšek (1883–1974) after the Sudetenland was annexed to the German Empire , and contributed to the security by the Gestapo at. In 1939 he himself wrote the history and battle for the Cantionale von Luditz .

After the end of the Second World War he was imprisoned by the Czechoslovak authorities, but released again in 1945, after which he settled in Bad Reichenhall and made clarinet reeds there. In Munich, he co-founded the Witikobundes . In 1950 he was appointed honorary chairman of the local association of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft Bad Reichenhall and the surrounding area .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Liem, Hugo. In: Tobias Weger : “Volkstumskampf” without end? Sudeten German Organizations, 1945–1955. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2008, p. 612.
  2. ↑ a b Jakub Šiška: Žlutice Hymns: Why the Nazis interested in the work of the 16th century , Radio Praha , October 4, 2014.
  3. ↑ Andreas Luh : The German Gymnastics Association in the first Czechoslovak Republic: from national club operations to popular political movement. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2006. p. 201.
  4. ^ Poslanecká sněmovna NSR Č. 1935. Poslanecké sněmovny - Parlamentu České republiky.
  5. ^ History and struggle for the Cantionale von Luditz , Bavarian Library Association. (Reprinted 1958 by the publishing house of the Witikobund)
personal data
SURNAME Liehm, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sudeten German politician (DNP, SdP, NSDAP) and co-founder of the Witikobund
DATE OF BIRTH 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Luditz , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 1958
Place of death Bad Reichenhall