Karl Feitenhansl (politician, 1891)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Karl Feitenhansl

Karl Feitenhansl (born July 30, 1891 in Roßhaupt , † March 15, 1951 in Zbeschau ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and doctor.

Live and act

After attending elementary school and a humanistic grammar school , Feitenhansl studied medicine in Prague from 1910 to 1914 . After participating in the First World War, he graduated on 22 July 1919, the promotion of Dr. med. from. He then worked from 1919 to 1923 as a secondary doctor in Teplitz-Schönau and then from 1923 to 1925 as a general practitioner in Rumburg . In 1926 he took a position at the surgical clinic in Graz and then worked from 1927 to 1928 as the primary physician at the Rumburg hospital. From 1929 to the end of 1933 Feitenhansl was the chief physician of the health insurance company in Rumburg. Afterwards Feitenhansl was a general practitioner in Rumburg from 1934 to 1938.

From 1920 to 1933 Feitenhansl belonged to the DNSAP . In 1931 he was the founder of the National Socialist Medical Association in Rumburg . Since 1933 Feitenhansl was active in Konrad Henlein's Sudeten German Party (SdP) . Due to his National Socialist activities, Feitenhansl was held in custody for nine months in Prague-Pankraz in 1937 on charges of military espionage. On June 12, 1938, he was elected to the city council of Rumburg and on September 4, 1938, he was appointed head of the Office for Public Health of the Sudeten German Party.

After the annexation of the Sudeten areas by the German Reich in autumn 1938, Feitenhansl became the general agent of the “standstill commissioner” for the doctors' organizations. He was also appointed Gauärzteführer. In addition, he was appointed district manager of the Office for Public Health in Reichenberg and clerk in the health service department in the Reich Commissioner for the Sudeten German areas. From February 1941 he became senior government director and headed the health service at the Reichsstatthalter for the Sudetengau. From the beginning of 1943 the Gauesundheitsführer also headed the Gauamt für Rasseppolitik in the Sudetenland. He was appointed to the medical council.

In November 1938 he became a member of the NSDAP. According to another source, he joined the NSDAP at the end of January 1939 under membership number 6,696,981. On the occasion of the supplementary election to the Reichstag elected in April 1938 on December 4, 1938, Feitenhansl joined the National Socialist Reichstag , to which he belonged until the end of Nazi rule in spring 1945.

Feitenhansel joined the SS in 1939 . In 1940, the SS initiated expulsion proceedings against Feitenhansl because of the sexual relationship with a Jewish woman in 1926 and 1927. The proceedings were finally discontinued in October 1940 at the instigation of Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler , who instead suggested that Feitenhansl should be transferred from the Sudetenland to another Gau. Feitenhansl achieved the rank of Obersturmbannführer in the SS in 1942.

After the end of the war he was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Czechoslovak People's Court and died while in custody.

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 the history and culture of the Czech lands. Volume 40, Issue 2, 1999, p. 457.
  • Board of Trustees Gedenkstätte Sonnenstein e. V. (Ed.): Transports in den Tod. The murder of patients from the Troppau administrative district (Reichsgau Sudetenland) in the “euthanasia” facility Pirna-Sonnenstein 1940/41 (= Sonnenstein. Contributions to the history of the Sonnenstein and Saxon Switzerland. Issue 9/2010). Pirna 2010, ISBN 978-3-9813772-0-0 .
  • Feitenhansl, Kurt, medic . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 3 : Einstein – Görner . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2006, ISBN 3-11-094655-6 , p. 261 ( books.google.de - limited preview).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Joachim Lilla: The representation of the "Reichsgau Sudetenland" and the "Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia" in the Grossdeutsche Reichstag. In: Bohemia. Journal of the history and culture of the Czech lands. Volume 40, Issue 2, 1999, p. 457.
  2. ↑ a b c German Biographical Encyclopedia. Volume 3: Einstein - Görner. 2nd Edition. Munich / Leipzig 2006, p. 261.
  3. ^ A b c Winfried Suss: The "People's Body" in War: Health Policy, Health Conditions and Sick Murder in National Socialist Germany 1939–1945. Munich 2003, p. 464.
  4. ↑ Michal Simunek: Improvisation, Adaptation, Centralization: The National Socialist «Establishment Management» in the Reichsgau Sudetenland, 1938–1941. In: Kuratorium Gedenkstätte Sonnenstein e. V. (Ed.): Transports in den Tod. The murder of patients from the Troppau administrative district (Reichsgau Sudetenland) in the “euthanasia” facility in Pirna-Sonnenstein in 1940/41. (= Sonnenstein. Contributions to the history of the Sonnenstein and Saxon Switzerland. Issue 9/2010). Pirna 2010, ISBN 978-3-9813772-0-0 , p. 25.
  5. ^ John Michael Steiner: Power Politics and Social Change in National Socialist. 1976, p. 260.
personal data
SURNAME Feitenhansl, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sudeten German politician (NSDAP), MdR and medical practitioner
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Roßhaupt
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1951
Place of death Review