Rudolf Kasper

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Rudolf Kasper (born November 29, 1896 in Ober-Drewitsch , Bohemia , † January 31, 1947 ) was a National Socialist trade union leader, member of the Czechoslovak House of Representatives and later SS leader.

Life

After graduating from high school in Trautenau , Kasper became a soldier in the Austro-Hungarian land forces in 1915 . In May 1917 he was taken prisoner in Italy, from which he was released in September 1919. 1929–1933 Kasper was a member of the Czech Parliament for the German National Socialist Workers' Party (DNSAP), in which he had been active since 1922. In 1933 the DNSAP was banned, its MPs were stripped of their mandate and Kasper was taken into custody from October 1933 to March 1934 on suspicion of endangering the Czechoslovak Republic because of his leading activities in popular sports . From 1935 Kasper was a functionary of the Sudeten German Party , where he came into strong opposition to the party leader Konrad Henlein and was temporarily excluded. At the end of 1938 Kasper moved to the Reich and in the same year became a member of the NSDAP , for which he had previously worked illegally. At the same time he had worked as an informant for the security service of the Reichsführer SS . Kasper initially worked as a special representative for German work in the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle . In January 1939 he became a member of the SS, in which he rose to the rank of Standartenführer . From June 1940 to October 1941 he was an employee of the " Reich Commissioner for the Occupied Norwegian Territories" Josef Terboven and from January 1942 to January 1943 "Gauwalter" of the DAF in Essen . From 1943 Kasper was an officer in the Waffen SS .

From 1945 he lived in Bülzig and Wittenberg , where he was arrested in July 1946 by the Soviet secret service of the NKVD . According to Soviet records, he died in late January 1947 in an unknown location in the Soviet occupation zone .

literature

  • Jaroslav Šebek: Sudeten German Catholicism on the Way of the Cross: Political Activities of the Sudeten German Catholics in the First Czechoslovak Republic in the 1930s . Lit , Berlin / Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-8258-9433-7 (= Church and Society in the Carpathian-Danube Region , Volume 2).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c František Kolář et.al .: Politická elita meziválečného Československa 1918–1938. Kdo byl Kdo [za první republiky]. Pražká Edice, Praha 1998, p. 124, ISBN 80-901509-8-5 (Czech).
  2. ^ German legation reports from Prague. Part IV: From the eve of the seizure of power in Germany to the resignation of President Masaryk. Munich-Vienna 1991, p. 20.
  3. ↑ cf. Jaroslav Šebek: Sudeten German Catholicism on the Way of the Cross. Münster / Berlin 2010, p. 131.
  4. ^ René Küpper: Karl Hermann Frank (1898-1946). Political biography of a Sudeten German National Socialist. Munich 2010, pp. 77-80.
  5. ↑ s. a. Volker Zimmermann: The Sudeten Germans in the Nazi State 1938–1945. Essen 1999, p. 48.
  6. ↑ Ronald M. Smelser : The Sudeten Problem and the Third Reich, 1933-1938. Munich 1980, p. 159 note 45.
personal data
SURNAME Kasper, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION National Socialist union leader
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Ober-Drewitsch
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1947