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Johann Keks (born December 6, 1885 in Katalinfalva , German  Kathreinfeld , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary ; † November 22, 1944 in Zrenjanin , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) was an association functionary and national politician in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

Life

Keks served as a captain in the army of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He was the landowner and editor-in-chief of the first five issues of the Volkswarts . From 1927 to 1939 Keks headed the central agricultural cooperative AGRARIA. On January 8, 1928, the "German People's Council" was constituted to represent the interests of the German minority in Yugoslavia . Ludwig Kremling took over the chairmanship, Keks became secretary. Other members included Stefan Kraft , Hans Moser and Georg Grassl .

In 1927 Keks was elected Federal Chairman of the Swabian-German Cultural Association, whose business he headed until the federal government was banned in 1929. The association consolidated again after 1930, again with Keks as federal chairman. The primary goal of the federal government was the preservation and dissemination of German culture in Yugoslavia. The behavior of the German-speaking population in the interwar period was characterized by restraint in politics; However, this changed fundamentally when the “ renewal movement ” gained decisive influence in the Kulturbund. In early 1939, when the National Socialists took over the federal government , Johann Keks was summoned to Berlin . After extensive discussions in the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle (VOMI) , his resignation was suggested. When he returned home, on April 30, 1939, he announced his resignation for his employees, surprisingly. Federal Secretary Matthias Giljum continued to run the Kulturbund until the new election. Keks' successor was Sepp Janko , who later became the " ethnic group leader ". Then Keks headed the supplementary command of the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division "Prinz Eugen" with its own office in Zrenjanin as SS-Sturmbannführer . At the end of the Second World War , Keks was included in Zrenjanin as a representative of the Danube Swabian population in the local liberation committee until October 10, 1944, but was then arrested on the instructions of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia and taken to the Zrenjanin labor and assembly camp, where he was slain in November.

Publications

  • The work of the Kulturbund. Novi Sad 1937
  • The Germanness in Yugoslavia. [sic!]
  • Cultural work of the academic among the people. In: Student in the People. Issue 1, 1939

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Oskar field dancer : The Danube Swabians in the interwar period and their relationship to National Socialism. Felix Ermacora Institute, Research Center for the Peoples of the Danube Monarchy, 2003, pp. 33,66,153.
  2. ^ A b Josef Beer: The suffering of the Germans in communist Yugoslavia: local reports on the crimes against the Germans by the Tito regime in the period 1944-1948. Donauschwäbische Kulturstiftung, Munich 1992. ISBN 3-92627-613-4 , p. 189
  3. ↑ Lenau Forum , volume 14. International Lenau Society, 1988, p. 54.
  4. ^ Eduard Zarncke , Will Vesper : Die Neue Literatur , volume 34. E. Avenarius, 1933. P. 112.
  5. ^ A b Johann Böhm : The German ethnic group in Yugoslavia 1918-1941: Domestic and foreign policy as symptoms of the relationship between the German minority and the Yugoslav government . Peter Lang, 2009, p. 64.
  6. ↑ Ingomar Senz : The Danube Swabians. Langen Müller, 1994. ISBN 3-78442-522-4 , p. 82.
  7. ↑ Snježana Ivkić: Flight, evacuation and forced resettlement of the German population from Croatia after the Second World War. Vienna 2013, p. 22.
  8. ↑ Josef Volkmar Senz : History of the Donauschwaben: from the beginnings to the present. Amalthea, 1993, ISBN 3-85002-342-7 , p. 217.
  9. ^ Mariana Hausleitner : From Fascism to Stalinism: German and Other Minorities in East Central and Southeastern Europe 1941-1953. IKGS Verlag, 2008, ISBN 3-98116-940-9 , p. 45.
  10. ↑ biscuit, Johann SS no. 449 757, Stubaf.dR on June 21, 1943, Ostubaf.dR on November 9, 1944.
  11. ^ Theodor Schieder (Ed.): Documentation of the expulsion of Germans from East Central Europe. Vol 5: The fate of the Germans in Yugoslavia. Bonn 1961. Chapter: a) Coercive measures and acts of violence under the military administration of the partisans. P.91E
  12. ↑ Wendelin Gruber: In the clutches of the red dragon. Ten years under Tito's rule. Miriam-Verlag, Künzli 1986, p. 133.
personal data
SURNAME Cookie, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Association functionary and national politician in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Katalinfalva , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1944
Place of death Zrenjanin , Kingdom of Yugoslavia