Rudolf Schicketanz

Rudolf Schicketanz (born September 11, 1900 in Niemes , Bohemian Leipa district / Austria-Hungary , † September 20, 1945 in Prague ) was a Sudeten German lawyer, politician of the SdP and the NSDAP and SS standard leader.

Live and act

After attending the elementary school in Niemes as a member of a textile industrial family there and the high school in Leipa , Schicketanz belonged to the Austro-Hungarian army for a few months towards the end of the First World War . He was a law student at Karl Ferdinand University in Prague . In 1922 he completed his studies with a doctorate in law . from. In 1918 he became a member of the Carolina Prague fraternity ( list of student associations in Prague ). Until 1927 he worked as a trainee lawyer in Niemes and Leipa; then he settled as a lawyer in Haida until 1938 .

1933 during the Great Depression to Schicketanz the Sudeten German Home Front closed Konrad Henlein , which in 1935 in Sudeten German Party renamed (Sudeten). In 1934 and 1935 he held a leading position in building up the Sudeten German Winter Relief Organization and the Sudeten German People's Aid. In 1935 he was the representative of the SdP for connections to the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Economics in Berlin. ( German Reich 1933 to 1945 ) and since 1935 was the editor of Die Zeit , the central organ of the SdP. The SdP's popular protection law proposals were initiated by Schicketanz in 1937 and were mainly written. In 1938 during the Sudeten crisis he was a member of the negotiating commission of the SdP under the mediation of Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford in the Prague government. In September and October 1938 Schicketanz stayed in Berlin.

After the Sudetenland was ceded as Reichsgau Sudetenland to the German Reich, Schicketanz was temporarily deputy to the Reich Commissioner for the Sudeten German territories. On November 1, 1938, he was accepted into the NSDAP ( membership number 6,697,309). From November 1938 Schicketanz worked as a lawyer in Reichenberg , where he moved into the expropriated villa of the Jewish textile merchant Robert Benda and his wife Else Bendová , both of whom were murdered in 1942 in the Łódź ghetto . After the supplementary election to the National Socialist Reichstag on December 4, 1938, Schicketanz entered the Reichstag on the Reich election proposal. Schicketanz, who was a member of the supervisory board of Škoda (mechanical engineering) , resigned his seat in the Reichstag on March 31, 1943 on the basis of an order from Adolf Hitler about supervisory board membership. His mandate was taken over by Fritz Amreich . In the Schutzstaffel , which Schicketanz (SS-Nr. 382.353) had joined in January 1939, he had the rank of Standartenführer .

After the end of World War II , Rudolf Schicketanz was imprisoned, sentenced to death by a court in Czechoslovakia and executed in September 1945 in Pankrác prison.

literature

Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 234-235.
Academic Burschenschaft Carolina zu Prag in Munich (ed.): Published in 2014, final editing by Hansjörg Brockmann, Rudolf Simm, Jürgen Wokoek; in short biographies of important Carolers p. 138 ff. p. 142 Schicketanz, Rudolf
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 , p. 554 .

Web links

Rudolf Schicketanz in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 234.
↑ Isa Engelmann: Reichenberg and his Jewish citizens. On the history of a once German city in Bohemia. (= Income from Bohemian-Moravian research, volume 10) Lit-Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-11737-3 , pp. 113, 203.

personal data
SURNAME	Schicketanz, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	September 11, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH	Niemes , Bohemian Leipa district
DATE OF DEATH	September 20, 1945
Place of death	Prague

[1] Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 234.

[2] Isa Engelmann: Reichenberg and his Jewish citizens. On the history of a once German city in Bohemia. (= Income from Bohemian-Moravian research, volume 10) Lit-Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-11737-3 , pp. 113, 203.