Johannes Künzel

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Johannes Künzel

Johannes Künzel (born May 6, 1899 in Oberachern ; † unknown) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

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After attending the community school, Künzel learned the machine fitter trade at Brand & Grafemann. In addition, he attended the crafts school. From 1916 to 1917 he worked in the Gotha wagon factory and in aircraft construction. From June 1917 Künzel took part in the First World War with the 8th Jäger Battalion of the 55th Landwehr Infantry Regiment . In the meantime he worked for the Krupp company, only to be assigned to the Landsturminfanteriebataillon Hagen on April 12, 1918. He took part in the Battle of Flanders in 1918 with the 3rd Silesian Infantry Regiment 156. After the war, Künzel first joined the Colonel von Selle Homeland Security Regiment. From May 1 to October 1, 1919, he was a member of the 1st Company of the 21st Reichswehr Infantry Regiment and then from October 24, 1920 to 1921 of the 21st Reichswehr Infantry Regiment.

In 1925 Künzel became a member of the SS (membership number 4,312), in which he achieved at least the rank of Obersturmbannführer. For the NSDAP ( membership number 3.565) Künzel sat on the city council of Coburg from July 1929 to 1933 . He was also head of the district operations cell in Coburg.

After 1933 Künzel took over tasks as district warden at the organization Kraft durch Freude (KdF), as deputy district cell chairman in the district administration of the Bavarian East Markets . After the former mayor of Coburg, Franz Schwede , was appointed Gauleiter of the Gau Pomerania by Adolf Hitler in July 1934 , Künzel took him to Pomerania as an employee. There he worked as Gauobmann of the German Labor Front (DAF) in the Gauleitung and in the Prussian administrative service also a member of the Prussian Provincial Council in Pomerania.

From March 1936 until the end of the Nazi regime in the spring of 1945, Künzel also sat as a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for constituency 6 (Pomerania) .

From 1940 to early 1943 Künzel took part in the Second World War as a soldier. From the beginning of January 1943 Künzel worked in the “Reich Office for Health and People's Protection” of the DAF.

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  1. ↑ Kyran T. Inachin: The Gau Pommern - a Prussian province as NS-Gau , in: Jürgen John (Hrsg.): The NS-Gaue: regional central instances in the centralized "Führerstaat" (= series of quarterly issues for contemporary history . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2007, p. 280.
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SURNAME Künzel, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberachern
DATE OF DEATH after 1945