Rudolf Meckel

Rudolf Meckel (born July 20, 1910 in Olomouc , Austria-Hungary , † August 26, 1975 in Sweden ) was a Sudeten German politician ( NSDAP ).

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In 1926, Meckel became a member of the Olomouc Nazi youth association and three years later joined the National Socialist German Student Union . After attending school, studies and doctorates followed . As the head of the Ramphold Gorenz connection in Prague , Meckel did educational work that was based on the German NSDAP. He caused a greater stir in the 1930s as the leader of the German Students' Union, the umbrella organization for all German corporations in Prague, and as a functionary of the Sudeten German Party (SdP).

Meckel entered the National Socialist Reichstag on April 25, 1939, after the so-called " smashing of the rest of the Czech Republic " in the spring of 1939 , as a "Member for the Germans in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia " , which he held until the end of the Nazi regime should belong in the spring of 1945. From 1938 to March 1940 he was a student leader in Prague and then took part in World War II as a soldier . In April 1941 he became a consultant for ethnicity issues at the German legation in Budapest . In the SS he received the rank of Sturmbannführer in 1939.

Nothing is known about its denazification . He was a qualified fencing master and from 1956 to 1961 training manager of the fencing department of TSV Mannheim .

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 .
• Erich Stockhorst : 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . 2nd Edition. Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 .
• Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 3: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: L – R. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-71842-6 .