Paul Junghanns

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Paul Junghanns (born June 17, 1879 in Nödenitzsch ; † January 8, 1942 there ) was a German farmer and politician ( NSDAP ).

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Junghanns was born the son of a farmer. After secondary school in Schmölln , he attended the commercial college in Gera from 1893 to 1896 . This was followed by training as a farmer on his father's farm in Nödenitzsch and in West Germany. Until 1900 he was a member of the German Social Reform Party (DSRP), then until 1914 of the German Social Party (DSP) and after the merger of the two anti-Semitic splinter parties DSRP and DSP to form the German Nationalist Party (DvP) until 1918 in this party.

From 1900 to 1901 Junghanns did his military service as a one-year volunteer . From 1907 he worked as an independent farmer in Nödenitzsch. From August 1914 to the end of 1917 he took part in the First World War as a Landwehr officer. After being wounded, he was employed as an economic officer in the Upper East military administration in Lithuania .

Junghanns belonged to the Thuringian Federation from 1902 to 1933. He joined the NSDAP on October 1, 1931 (membership number 665 155) and became an agricultural district adviser to the Altenburg district leadership. As a Gauredner he appeared in 1930. From July 31, 1932 to October 14, 1933 he sat as a member of the NSDAP in the Thuringian state parliament . From August 26, 1932 until his death he was State Councilor for Altenburg and until May 1933 a member of the government without a portfolio in the Thuringian state government under the direction of Fritz Sauckel .

Junghanns took on some functions in various associations. From August 1933 until his death in 1942 he was district farmer leader of Altenburg and until July 1938 president of the association of Thuringian agricultural cooperatives. He then held a managerial position in the Raiffeisen organization, was chairman of the board of directors of a hail insurance company and a member of several supervisory boards.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Bernhard Post, Volker Wahl (Ed.): Thuringia Handbook. Territory, constitution, parliament, government and administration in Thuringia 1920 to 1995 (= publications from Thuringian state archives; 1). Weimar 1999, ISBN 3-7400-0962-4 , p. 594.