Rudolf Wenzel

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Rudolf Wenzel

Rudolf Wenzel (born October 11, 1904 in Karbitz ; † unknown, after 1984) was a German politician ( SdP / NSDAP ).

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After attending elementary school , the state school in Aussig and the Czech citizen school in Kročehlavy, Rudolf Wenzel was trained at the Technical University in Prague. In 1923 he became a board member of the German student body at the German universities in Prague. In 1929 he settled in Reichenberg as a freelance architect .

Wenzel, who joined DNSAP in 1923 , began to get involved in Konrad Henlein's Sudeten German Home Front (SHF) in the early 1930s . In 1934 he became an employee of the headquarters of the SHF and from 1935 worked as the main leader of the organization now named in the Sudeten German Party. In autumn 1938 he belonged to the Sudeten German Freikorps and, after the incorporation of the Sudeten areas into the German Reich , was promoted to Sturmbannführer in the SS in October 1938 (SS No. 310,468) and joined the NSDAP ( membership number 6,600,853). From the supplementary election of December 4, 1938 until the end of Nazi rule in spring 1945, Wenzel was a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for the Sudeten areas . He also became the personal assistant to Henlein, who was appointed Reich Commissioner . In 1940 Wenzel was appointed district administrator of Teplitz-Schönau . During the Second World War , he did military service from 1940 to 1941.

After the end of the war he was sentenced to five years imprisonment by a Czechoslovak tribunal as a war criminal. From 1949 he lived in Bavaria. From 1953 he worked as an editor at the Sudetendeutschen Zeitung , then worked for an authority until he was retired as a 131 . He worked as a translator for the Sudeten German Archive until old age. He was also a member of the Federal Committee for Press and Information of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft . He was also involved in the right-wing Witikobund .

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 .
  • 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, Issue 2, 1999, p. 469

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joachim Lilla: The representation of the "Reichsgau Sudetenland" and the "Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia" in the Grossdeutsche Reichstag . In: Bohemia. Journal of History and Culture of the Bohemian Lands , Volume 40, Issue 2, 1999, p. 469
  2. ↑ Rudolf Wenzel -80 years In: Aussiger Bote. 1984, pp. 306f.
  3. ↑ Kurt Nelhiebel: The Henleins yesterday and today. Background and goals of the Witikobund , 1962, p. 63.
personal data
SURNAME Wenzel, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Karbitz
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century