Ludwig Frank (NSDAP)
Ludwig Frank (born May 24, 1883 in Marienbad , Austria-Hungary ; † November 4, 1945 in Pilsen , Czechoslovakia ) was a Sudeten German politician ( NSDAP ).
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After attending primary and secondary school, Frank was trained at the cadet school. In 1902 he was appointed cadet warrant officer, then in 1903 to lieutenant and in 1909 to lieutenant in . Kuk Infantry Regiment 99 carries. After attending the war school in Vienna , Frank was assigned to the Austro-Hungarian General Staff in 1910 . In 1913 he was promoted to captain in the General Staff Corps, and then from 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War, in which he worked in Galicia , Russia , Tyrol , the Isonzo, and most recently from 10 May 1918 as Major of the General Staff Corps and as Division Chief of Staff of the 12 Austro-Hungarian infantry division was deployed on the Piave .
Frank was retired from military service in 1919. In the same year he was arrested by the Czechs, who accused him of having made attempts to prevent the occupation of German Bohemia . He then took part in the establishment of German front-line organizations in Czechoslovakia .
Frank owned rental garages with driver apartments for spa guests in Marienbad . In 1933 he joined the Sudeten German Home Front, the later Sudeten German Party , and in 1934 became district leader of District VIII (Marienbad). appointed by the Sudeten German Party (SdP). In 1935 he was elected to the Czechoslovak Senate as the senator of his party and was appointed club chairman of the senators of the SdP and the Carpathian German party . In June 1936 he became a member of the main leadership of the SdP. During the Sudeten crisis he introduced under the name Fritz Urban a volunteer corps in Kaiserwald and northern Bohemia .
After the incorporation of the Sudetenland into the German Reich, Frank was accepted into the NSDAP on November 1, 1938 . He also became a member of the SA and leader z. b. V. of the SA group Sudeten. On November 9, 1943 he was promoted to SA Standartenführer. From December 4, 1938 until the end of the Second World War , Frank was a member of the Reichstag for the Sudetenland. In addition, from autumn 1938 to the end of 1940 he was the regional group leader of the Reich Air Protection Association and general air protection leader.
After the end of the war, Ludwig Frank was arrested in Czechoslovakia, taken to the Pilsen-Bory prison and allegedly executed or murdered there without trial.
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: Representing the "Reichsgau Sudetenland" and the "Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia" in the Greater German Reichstag . In: Bohemia . Journal of the history and culture of the Czech lands. Volume 40, Issue 2, 1999, pp. 457f.
Web links
- Ludwig Frank in the database of members of the Reichstag
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Frank, Ludwig |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Urban, Fritz (code name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Sudeten German politician (NSDAP), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marienbad |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 4, 1945 |
| Place of death | Pilsen |