Karl Folta

Karl Folta (born January 31, 1893 in Brno ; † February 13, 1947 there ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

Live and act

Folta attended elementary and secondary school in his hometown and then studied cultural engineering there at the German Technical University . After graduating, he took part in the First World War, most recently with the Kaiserschützen Regiment No. III in Tyrol, where he was a lieutenant in the reserve , and after the end of the war he joined ethnic groups. Folta then worked as a writer and editor and in October 1933 became a member of the Sudeten German Home Front, the forerunner of the Sudeten German Party . For this party he was district leader in Brno from June 1934 to October 1938 and in June 1936 he was promoted to the main leadership of the party. On October 15, 1938, he became a member of the SA with the rank of SA-Sturmbannführer. Later he was promoted to Obersturmbannführer.

After the German occupation of the so-called remaining Czech Republic in early 1939, Folta took over the office of NSDAP district leader in Brno. In addition, he joined the National Socialist Reichstag on April 25, 1939 as a member of parliament for the German population in the newly created Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia , i.e. the area of ​​the remaining Czech Republic after the Munich Agreement of 1938 , to which he remained until the end of the Belonged to Nazi rule in spring 1945.

Folta was executed after the war.

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 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johann Wolfgang Brügel : Czechs and Germans, 1939-1946 , 1974, p. 224.