Kurt Günther (politician)

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Kurt Günther

Kurt Wilhelm Günther (born October 31, 1896 in Gera ; † April 3, 1947 in Weimar ) was an SA-Obergruppenführer and German politician (NSDAP).

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After attending secondary school in Gera (1903–1912), Günther was trained as a surveying and cultural technician for three years . From 1915 to 1918 he took part in the First World War, in which he was used as a member of the mine thrower company 408 on the Eastern and Western Fronts.

Günther was employed as a topographer and trigonometer at Surveying Department 8 (Bogesen) from 1918 after training at the Royal Prussian Land Survey in Berlin and the Technical University of Stuttgart . In 1919 he took a position at the non-profit building cooperative Gera, where he participated in the preparation of settlement plans. From August 1919 to December 1933 Günther worked as an employee in the construction department of the Hirschberg leather factory (formerly Heinrich Knoch & Co.) in Hirschberg an der Saale .

Günther joined the NSDAP in 1923 and was a co-founder of the local NSDAP group in Hirschberg, where he was secretary and treasurer until 1929. In the course of the Hitler putsch on November 9, 1923, he took part in a march to Hof (Saale) . Because of the armed march he was briefly imprisoned, also in 1924 and 1924 for "favoring the NSDAP and possessing weapons or publicly insulting the SPD city council".

From 1929 to December 1933 he sat on the municipal council of Untertiefengrün . Within the SA he took over the leadership of the SA group Thuringia . In November 1937 he rose within the SA to Obergruppenführer. He was a State Councilor in Thuringia, a member of the Chamber of Labor in Central Germany and President of the Central German Racing Club.

In July 1932 Günther was elected for the first time as a member of the NSDAP for constituency 12 (Thuringia) in the Reichstag , to which he initially belonged until the election in November of the same year. After leaving parliament for four months, he was able to return to the Reichstag for the March 1933 election, in which he was represented without interruption until the end of the Nazi regime in May 1945.

After the Second World War began , Günther signed up for the Wehrmacht in autumn 1939 . After deployments in Norway and Finland, he was discharged from the army in November 1943 with the rank of first lieutenant. From August 1944 he was still an associate judge at the People's Court . At the end of the war he was also the deputy head of the Volkssturm in Thuringia.

Shortly before the end of the war, Günther adopted the false name Günter Stief in April 1945 . On May 17, 1946, he was arrested by the Soviet NKVD in Weimar and sentenced to death by shooting on February 20, 1947 for war crimes and active National Socialist activities. The judgment was carried out in Weimar on April 3, 1947 (judgment of the Soviet Military Court of Thuringia of February 20, 1947). By order of July 7, 2005 of the Supervision Court No. 80-HY of the city of Odinzhovo-10, Moscow Region, Presidium of the 3rd District Court, rehabilitation was refused. This information is supported by documents and is in the hands of the son Kurt Ewald.

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 , p. 196 .
  • Klaus-Dieter Müller, Thomas Schaarschmidt, Mike Schmeitzner, Andreas Weigelt: Death sentences of Soviet military tribunals against Germans (1944–1947). A historical-biographical study . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-36968-5 , short biographies on the accompanying CD, p. 204f.

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  1. ↑ a b c Klaus-Dieter Müller, Thomas Schaarschmidt, Mike Schmeitzner, Andreas Weigelt: Death sentences of Soviet military tribunals against Germans (1944-1947). A historical-biographical study . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-36968-5 , short biographies on the accompanying CD, p. 204f.
personal data
SURNAME Günther, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Günther, Kurt Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR, SA-Obergruppenführer
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1947
Place of death Weimar