Rudolf Help

Rudolf Hilf (born March 1, 1923 in Asch , Czechoslovakia ; † April 20, 2011 in Hamburg ) was a German historian , political scientist and politician for expellees.

Life

Rudolf Hilf, born in 1923, served as a soldier in the Air Force from 1942 to 1945 . After the end of the war, his family was driven from their homeland and settled in Bavaria . He studied history at the University of Munich , which gave him his doctorate in 1951 with a thesis on a political science topic. He then worked until 1959 as foreign policy advisor to the first spokesman for the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft in Germany, Rudolf Lodgman von Auen . From 1960 to 1966 he was the private secretary of Prince Max Egon von Hohenlohe-Langenburg , a representative of the Bohemian nobility. From 1967 to 1973 he was managing director of the Bavarian regional association of the Association of Expellees . After that he was a consultant at the Bavarian State Center for Political Education until his retirement in 1988 . Since 1995 he has been a member of the Sudeten German Council and the board of the Bavarian regional group of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft .

Together with Josef Stingl , the former President of the Federal Labor Office , as well as Professors Felix Ermacora , Theodor Veiter , Otto Kimminich and other personalities, he founded the International Institute for Nationality Law and Regionalism (Intereg) in 1977 . He was also the initiator of the German-Czech cross-border region " Euregio Egrensis ", which was founded soon after 1990, and the author of numerous books, studies and articles.

↑ sad news (PDF, 63 kB), Federal Chairman of the Sudeten German Homeland Association on April 21, 2011. Accessed March 2, 2020th

personal data
SURNAME	Help Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian, political scientist and expellee politician
DATE OF BIRTH	March 1, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH	Asch , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH	April 20, 2011
Place of death	Hamburg