Josef Kraus (politician, 1903)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Josef Kraus

Josef Kraus (born August 13, 1903 in Hohenelbe , † after 1940) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

Live and act

After attending the elementary school and the community school, Josef Kraus learned the profession of projectionist. In the following years he worked in this profession in Hohenelbe, Gablonz, Eger and Prague . From 1922 to 1924 he was a member of the Czechoslovak Army , in which he made it to the corporal .

In 1933 Kraus participated in the founding of the Sudeten German Party (SdP). He also took over the founding of the local party groups in the Hohenelbe district. In 1935 he was appointed district manager there and on June 12, 1938 he was appointed vice mayor of the city of Hohenelbe. After the annexation of the Sudeten areas by the National Socialist German Reich in autumn 1938, he was entrusted with the development of NSDAP circles in the Hohenelbe area and was district leader in Königgrätz from 1939 to 1940 .

In the supplementary election on December 4, 1938, to the Reichstag elected in April 1938, Kraus entered the National Socialist Reichstag as a member of the National Socialist Reichstag until his mandate expired on July 17, 1940. The background was an expulsion from the NSDAP on July 8, 1940 for embezzlement.

literature

  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
  • 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. 461.

Web links

  • Josef Kraus in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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. 461
personal data
SURNAME Kraus, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenelbe
DATE OF DEATH after 1940