Rudolf Sandner

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rudolf Sandner

Rudolf "Rudi" Sandner (born February 27, 1905 in Karlsbad , † March 7, 1983 in Oberstdorf ) was a Sudeten German politician ( DSAP , SdP , NSDAP and later GB / BHE ).

Live and act

After attending primary school and five years of high school, Sandner learned the horticultural trade. He later worked successively as a contract official and welfare worker and finally as a journalist in Eger .

Initially, Sandner belonged to the Social Democratic Party (DSAP). After founding the Sudeten German Home Front (SHF) on October 1, 1933, which was renamed the Sudeten German Party (SdP) in 1935, he joined it. He was immediately appointed to the party leadership. In this he initially devoted himself to press work in order to later work there as the main agitator. In December 1933 he was accepted into the main line of the SHF. After the Czechoslovak parliamentary elections of 1935, in which Sandner moved into the House of Representatives as the top candidate in the Reichenberg constituency, he became chairman of the SdP faction in the Czechoslovak parliament. In the years 1936 to 1938 he finally took on duties as head of propaganda for the SdP and was a member of the party's leadership council.

When the Sudeten crisis came to a head , he joined the Sudeten German Freikorps and worked for the news department of this paramilitary organization in Waldsassen . After the German annexation of the Sudeten areas in autumn 1938 by the National Socialist German Reich , Sandner was head of the Gaupresseamt ​​in the Sudetenland until the end of the war. He joined the NSDAP in early November 1938. In the Sturmabteilung Sandner achieved the rank of SA standard leader.

After a supplementary election to the Reichstag on December 4, 1938, Sandner joined the National Socialist Reichstag as a representative of the Sudeten German territories until the end of Nazi rule in spring 1945 .

After the Second World War he was sentenced to life imprisonment in Prague . He was deported from Czechoslovakia to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1955 . He then worked as a journalist in Bonn . Politically active as a federal organization leader in the displaced party GB / BHE , for which he ran unsuccessfully in the Bundestag election in 1957 in the Bundestag constituency Frankfurt am Main I (140). At the Witikobund he was a member of the board.

Fonts

  • Sudeten Germans May 1, 1938. Karlsbad 1938.
  • 3 years of free Sudetenland. Reichenberg 1941.
  • Poetry from Bohemia. Grünwald near Munich 1985. (?)

literature

  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
  • Joachim Lilla : The representation of the “Reichsgau Sudetenland” and the “Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia” in the Grossdeutsche Reichstag. In: Bohemia . Journal of the history and culture of the Czech lands. Volume 40, Edition 2, 1999, p. 467 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Joachim Lilla: The representation of the "Reichsgau Sudetenland" and the "Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia" in the Grossdeutsche Reichstag. In: Bohemia. Journal of the history and culture of the Czech lands. Volume 40, Edition 2, 1999, p. 467 f.
  2. Sandner, Rudolf . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Saalfeld to Szyszka] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 1050 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 798 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).