Josef Schönwälder

Josef Schönwälder

Josef Schönwälder , also Seff Schönwälder (born July 13, 1897 in Endersdorf , Austrian Silesia , † May 24, 1972 in Wesel ), was a German politician (NSDAP).

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Schönwälder attended elementary school in Saubsdorf from 1904 to 1911 . From 1911 to 1914 he was trained as a stonemason at the Saubsdorf School for Stone Processing.

From 1915 to 1918 Schönwälder took part in the First World War. From 1919 he worked as a stonemason and sculptor. In 1920 he became a member of the anti-Semitic Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund . In 1923 he founded the Bund Jungvölkischer Wandervogel.

In 1922 Schönwälder joined the NSDAP for the first time ( membership number 18,691). In November 1929 he became a city councilor in Bad Freienwalde (Oder) . A year later, in 1930, he became district leader of the NSDAP in Breslau .

In September 1930 Schönwälder was elected to the Reichstag as his party's candidate for constituency 4 (Potsdam I) , to which he belonged from then on without interruption for the remainder of the Weimar Republic and beyond that for the entire duration of the National Socialist dictatorship. From September 1930 to July 1932 he represented constituency 4 (Potsdam I) in parliament, then from July 1932 to May 1945 he represented constituency 7 (Breslau). From 1932 to 1933 Schönwälder was also a member of the Prussian Landtag .

In 1931 Schönwälder founded the Deutsche Bühne Breslau. On July 1, 1931 Schönwälder was appointed Untergau leader of the Lower Gau Central Silesia. He also held office from July 1932 to March 1933 as the district leader of the Breslau city district. He was also the country director of the Kampfbund for German Culture and the German Stage. After the two organizations were amalgamated, he became regional chairman of the Nazi cultural community .

From March 23, 1933 to October 1, 1940, Schönwälder was District Mayor of Breslau . From the end of 1943 on, he acted as mayor of the city as a substitute . According to the Reichstag Handbuch, he has also appeared as a Reich speaker for the NSDAP since the late 1930s .

Schönwälder had been a member of the SS since 1934 (membership number 234.111). Since 1941 he held the rank of Obersturmbannführer .

After the Second World War Schönwälder lived in Wesel.

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 .
• 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).

Web links

• Josef Schönwälder in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 542.