Walter Brand

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Walter Brand (born November 23, 1907 in Żyrardów ; † December 24, 1980 in Mühldorf am Inn ) was one of the leading Sudeten German politicians from the early 1930s .

Live and act

During his studies in Vienna , Brand joined the NSDAP in 1931 , was a close friend of Konrad Henleins , in 1933 co-founder of the Sudeten German Home Front (from 1935: Sudeten German Party , SdP) and editor-in-chief of her newspaper Die Zeit . In 1936 he became head of the secretariat of the SdP in Prague, in 1938 he was an organizer of the Sudeten German Freikorps and Hauptsturmführer of the SA .

Brand belonged within the SdP to the so-called Kameradschaftsbund around the Spann pupil Walter Heinrich , i.e. the current that refused to join the Sudetenland to the National Socialist German Reich until well into 1937 . As a result, this wing of the party was persecuted after the implementation of the Munich Agreement : in the so-called Dresden Trials , 300 members of the Comradeship Association, often on charges of homosexual misconduct, were politically sidelined, disciplined or imprisoned.

Walter Brand therefore spent the years 1939 to 1945 in succession in the Sachsenhausen , Natzweiler and Heinkel-Oranienburg concentration camps .

After the end of the war he worked as a politician for expellees, book author and journalist in Bavaria . a. from 1950 to 1952 chairman of the Witikobund and deputy chairman of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft . He was a member of the German Guild .

Publications

  • At a losing point. A Sudeten German politician between autonomy and union. (= Publications of the Sudeten German Archive 21). Munich 1985.

literature

  • Ludwig Weichselbaumer: Walter Brand (1907–1980). A Sudeten German politician caught between autonomy and union . Munich 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Kellershohn: An institute for ideological arming of the CDU: The German Guild and the establishment of the "Institute for State Policy" . In: DISS-JOURNAL 8 (2001)

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personal data
SURNAME Brand, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sudeten German politician (SdP)
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Żyrardów
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1980
Place of death Mühldorf am Inn