Raimund Siegl

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Raimund Siegl

Raimund Siegl (born August 30, 1906 in Iglau ; † October 26, 1946 in the prison camp there) was a Sudeten German politician ( SdP , later NSDAP ).

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Siegl attended elementary school and then high school in his hometown. After passing the school-leaving examination for teaching at elementary schools, he studied history and geography at the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague. After he had passed the teaching examination for secondary schools, he taught at elementary and community schools.

In the context of popular work and gymnastics, he began to get involved with the SdP and took over the management of the agricultural chancellery and the Sudeten German peasantry. Eventually he became the party's trainer in Jihlava. In the course of the worsening of the Sudeten crisis , he joined the Sudeten German Freikorps in autumn 1938 . He then taught at the advanced training institute in Znojmo . From March 1939 until the end of the Second World War in May 1945 Siegl was district leader of the NSDAP district Iglau. Within the SS he was promoted to Hauptsturmführer. On April 25, 1939, after the German invasion of what was known as the rest of the Czech Republic , Siegl joined the National Socialist Reichstag as a representative for the Germans in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia , to which he was a member until the end of Nazi rule.

After the end of the war Siegl was in a prison camp in Iglau, where he perished.

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 , pp. 617–618.
  • Joachim Lilla: The representation of the “Reichsgau Sudetenland” and the “Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia” in the Grossdeutsche Reichstag . In: Bohemia . Journal of History and Culture of the Bohemian Lands , Volume 40, Issue 2, 1999, p. 471.
  • E. Kienast (Ed.): The Greater German Reichstag 1938, IV. Electoral period , R. v. Decker's Verlag, G. Schenck, June 1943 edition, Berlin

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Siegl, Raimund. Retrieved August 8, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Written communication from Günther Siegl, the son of Raimund Siegl on August 7, 2019:
    ... The anniversary of my father's death is undoubtedly (!!) October 26, 1946. Two hours before his execution by the Iglau prison, he wrote one Farewell letter to my mother that I was once allowed to read.
  3. ↑ a b Joachim Lilla: The representation of the "Reichsgau Sudetenland" and the "Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia" in the Grossdeutsche Reichstag . In: Bohemia. Journal of History and Culture of the Bohemian Lands , Volume 40, Issue 2, 1999, p. 471
personal data
SURNAME Siegl, Raimund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Iglau
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1946
Place of death Iglau