Karl Franz (politician)
Karl Franz (born May 20, 1881 in Langenbielau , † January 14, 1967 in Struppen ) was a German politician (SPD).
Live and act
After attending elementary school, Karl Franz completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer. At the turn of the century he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). From 1902 to 1904 he belonged to the 1st Guards Regiment on foot in Potsdam. He then worked as a bricklayer until 1911. He then became managing director of the German Construction Workers' Association in Waldenburg , where he also took over the office of local party secretary of the SPD in 1913.
From 1914 to 1918 Franz took part in the First World War, in which he was deployed on the Western Front . After his return from the war he became a city councilor and city councilor in his Waldenburg homeland, where he again took over the office of SPD party secretary.
From June 1920 to May 1924 Franz sat as a member of the first Reichstag of the Weimar Republic , in which he represented constituency 8 (Breslau). Between 1923 and 1924 he was district administrator in Neurode and from 1925 to 1932 district administrator of the Waldenburg district (Silesia) . In 1933 he was imprisoned in the Sonnenburg concentration camp .
In August 1944, Franz was arrested as part of the Grid Action and held in the Groß-Rosen concentration camp until the end of the war .
literature
- Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .
- Bärbel Holtz (Ed.): The minutes of the Prussian State Ministry 1925-1938 / 38. Vol. 12 / II. (1925-1938) . Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 2004. ISBN 3-487-12704-0 ( Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences [Hg.]: Acta Borussica . New series .)
Web links
- Karl Franz in the database of members of the Reichstag
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Benz : Rule and violence. Early concentration camps 1933-1939 , 2002, p. 94.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Franz, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPD), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Langenbielau |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 14, 1967 |
| Place of death | Struppen |