Johann Appler

Johann Appler

Johann Paulus Appler (born June 13, 1892 in Straßenhof , Urphertshofen municipality , † December 21, 1978 in Gunzenhausen ) was a member of the Reichstag for the NSDAP .

Life

Appler attended the elementary and advanced training school in Urphertshofen from 1898 to 1912. In 1912 he joined the 10th "König" infantry regiment of the Royal Bavarian Army . From August 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a platoon leader and received several war awards. In 1920 he was discharged from the Reichswehr and from 1922 to 1935 found work as a Reich finance officer: until 1928 as a customs assistant in the border service, then as a tax secretary in the Gunzenhausen tax office .

From 1925 to 1928 Appler was a member of the Völkisch Social Block . On August 1, 1928, he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 95.219) and was in charge of the Gunzenhausen branch in the Gau Franken until 1930. Until 1932 he headed the NSDAP district Gunzenhausen, then until November 1940 the local district. He was also a Gauredner of the party and a member of the SA with the rank of Sturmbannführer . In 1931 Appler founded the Gunzenhausen SS group and, as SS storm leader, was its commander.

On January 21, 1933, Appler moved to the Reichstag for Wilhelm Stegmann , who had left the parliament . He retained the mandate even after the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists until the end of the war in the then meaningless Reichstag . Since April 28, 1933, Appler was second mayor of Gunzenhausen on an honorary basis, and on October 1, 1935, Appler became first mayor and remained so until April 1945.

According to documents from the central office in Ludwigsburg , Appler managed to escape to Spain in 1945 , from where he went to Cairo in Egypt in 1946 . There he converted to Islam and lived under the name Salah Chaffar . After returning to Germany, he was charged with breaking the peace in September 1949 and sentenced to six months in prison, presumably because of his significant involvement in the November pogroms of 1938. Two further criminal proceedings ended in November 1949 and September 1950 with acquittals. Johann Appler lived in Gunzenhausen until his death.

literature

• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 . P. 11
• Michael Rademacher: Handbook of the NSDAP Gaue 1928 - 1945: The officials of the NSDAP and their organizations at Gau and district level in Germany and Austria as well as in the Reichsgau Gdansk-West Prussia, Sudetenland and Wartheland . Lingenbrink, Vechta 2000, ISBN 3-8311-0216-3 .
• Claudia Roth: Party group and district leader of the NSDAP with special consideration of Bavaria . In: Series of publications on Bavarian regional history . tape 197 . CH Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-10688-9 .
• Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).
• Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .
• Max Schwarz : MdR. Biographical handbook of the German Reichstag. Hanover 1965.
• Markus Herbert Schmid: Johann Paulus Appler (1892-1978) - a life in four political systems. In: Alt Gunzenhausen magazine , issue 58.
• Georg Fischer: Heal or Rule. In: Alt-Gunzenhausen magazine . 2009.

Web links

• Johann Appler in the database of members of the Reichstag