Josef Prokop (politician, 1898)
Josef Prokop (born April 24, 1898 in Reichenberg , Bohemia , † December 13, 1945 in Novi Vrbas-Backa, Yugoslavia ) was an Austrian politician ( NSDAP ) and graphic artist.
Live and act
Prokop was the son of a stereotype writer . After attending the state high school in Klagenfurt , he completed a degree at the arts and crafts school of the Austrian Museum of Art and Industry , where he graduated in 1929. In the same year, he was awarded the state prize donated by the Federal Ministry of Commerce and Industry for his overall graphic work. From 1929 he taught at Klagenfurt secondary schools and in 1940 was promoted to senior lecturer.
After the " annexation of Austria " to the German Empire , he temporarily headed the Gaupersonalamt in Carinthia . After the beginning of World War II , he did temporary military service. In 1940 Prokop was appointed senior teacher and from September 1942 director of the Master School of German Crafts in Klagenfurt . From the end of January 1942 he was appointed senior division manager of the NSDAP and head of the department “Young Leaders” at the Carinthian Gauleitung. As a member of the SS , he achieved the rank of Hauptsturmführer.
On June 18, 1941, Prokop joined the National Socialist Reichstag as a member of the National Socialist Reichstag , in which he represented Austria until the end of the Nazi regime in the spring of 1945 in the replacement process for the deceased MP Ferdinand Kernmaier . After the end of the war he died in Yugoslav captivity.
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 .
- Erich Stockhorst : 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . 2nd Edition. Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 .
- E. Kienast (Ed.): The Greater German Reichstag 1938, IV. Electoral period, R. v. Decker's Verlag, G. Schenck, June 1943 edition, Berlin
- G. Wacha: Josef Prokop (politician, 1898). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 302.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Procopius, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian politician (NSDAP), MdR and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reichenberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 13, 1945 |
| Place of death | Novi Vrbas-Backa |