Karl Beggel

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Karl Beggel (born March 17, 1892 in Munich , † after 1924) was a German political functionary and paramilitary activist.

Life and activity

Beggel was a son of the carpenter Benedikt Beggel and his wife Susanne, geb. Gail.

From 1914 to 1918 Beggel took part as a professional sergeant in World War I , during which he was part of the 2nd Company of the 9th Bavarian Infantry Regiment. In 1917 he was seriously wounded. On the occasion of his discharge from the army at the end of the war, he received the rank of lieutenant. In the post-war period he worked as an employee at the Reichsbank.

In 1919 Beggel joined what was then the German Workers' Party (DAP) in Munich (membership number 509), in which he took over the post of party cashier from 1919 to the end of January 1920 as the successor to Franz Girisch, who was then succeeded by Mainrad Holzinger. In 1919 and 1920, the officer’s deputy helped to provide the young DAP and NSDAP with the support they needed at the time through various army organizations. At Hitler's instigation , Beggel, whom he knew from his time as an undercover agent in the Bavarian army in the summer of 1919, was accepted into the working committee of the NSDAP.

In 1923 Beggel took over the leadership of the 1st Battalion of the SA Regiment Munich. In addition to the commander of the SA regiment, Wilhelm Brückner , and the leaders of the other two battalions of the regiment, Edmund Heines and Hans Knauth , he was one of the four highest SA leaders in Munich in 1923. At that time, about 600 were subordinate to him Man.

In his position as leader of the 1st Battalion of the Munich SA Regiment, Beggel took part in the Hitler Putsch on November 8th and 9th, 1923 , an attempt to overthrow the existing state by force by the organizations of the extreme ethnic groups combined in the Working Group of Patriotic Associations Right.

In 1924 Beggel was a defendant in one of the Hitler Putsch trials that were held in the spring and summer of 1924 before the People's Court in Munich I. He was held responsible for the theft of banknotes by the SA subordinate to him during the occupation of the Munich printing works during the coup.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Albrecht Tyrell: From Drummer to Leader: The Change in Hitler's Self-Image Between 1919 and 1924 and the Development of the NSDAP , 1975, p. 202.
  2. ↑ State Archive Munich: Police Directorate Munich No. 6712, p. 4: interrogation of Karl Beggel on December 15, 1923 (digitized version) .
  3. ↑ List of losses on World War I: Bavarian List of Losses No. 368 of November 27, 1917 .
  4. ↑ Harold J. Gordon: Hitler and the Beer Hall Putsch , 2009, p. 295.
  5. ↑ Kurt Pätzold / Manfred Weissbecker: History of the NSDAP 1920–1945 , 2009, p. 40.
  6. ↑ Werner Maser: Der Sturm auf die Republik , 1973, p. 176.
personal data
SURNAME Beggel, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political functionary and paramilitary activist
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH after 1924