Walter Stain

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Walter Stain (born December 27, 1916 in Prague ; † February 3, 2001 in Mainstockheim ) was a German politician ( SdP , NSDAP , GB / BHE , GDP ) and expellee functionary (co-founder and board member of the Witikobund ).

Life

Walter Stain grew up in Neuern . He first attended secondary school and then the German Technical University in Brno . During his studies he became a member of the Moravia Brünn fraternity in 1935 (in 1954 the Arminia fraternity in Würzburg ). He started out working in his stepfather's lumber shop. Stain began his political career in the Sudeten German Party (SdP) under the leadership of Konrad Henlein . A Sudeten German Freikorps , which militarily fought Czechoslovakia from the Reich, counted him among its members. After 1938 he joined the NSDAP . He also became the leader of the Hitler Youth as well as the "Gau Youth Leader " of the NS-Turnerbund . From 1939 he took part in the war as a paratrooper . His highest rank was an officer. In 1946 he was released from Italian captivity. He then settled in Mainstockheim as a timber merchant and coal dealer.

After the end of the Second World War and the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans , he became a co-founder and board member of the Witikobund . As a Bavarian state parliament member of the GB / BHE from November 27, 1950 to December 6, 1962 in the constituency of Lower Franconia , he also served under Prime Minister Hans Ehard (CSU) in 1950 as State Secretary in the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior , the then Interior Minister Wilhelm Hoegner (SPD) was his direct superior . When Hoegner became Prime Minister in 1954, Stain was promoted to Bavarian State Minister for Labor and Social Affairs in December 1954 . “Refugee affairs”, which had previously been part of the Ministry of the Interior, also fell under his responsibility.

He was also responsible for hiring the former SS-Hauptsturmführer Walter Hergl as head of the office and employed Friedrich Priller , also a former SS-Hauptsturmführer, as a personal assistant. After Hoegner's resignation in 1957, Stain remained Minister of Labor under Prime Minister Ehard until December 1962, during which time he was Deputy Prime Minister for a year. He was replaced by Paul Strenkert . When his party left the Bundestag in 1957, he gave ex-parliamentarians in Bavaria government posts , including Wilfried Keller , Johannes Strosche and Reinhold Kolarczyk , and, against the protests of the works council, the former deputy Gauleiter and SA Brigade Leader Fritz Köllner a position as chief the Labor Inspectorate Department.

In 1962, Stain led the state election campaign of the BHE, now renamed the All-German Party (GDP), which was no longer elected to parliament in the state elections in Bavaria . It achieved 5.1 percent of the vote, but not 10 percent in any of the administrative districts, which at that time was the hurdle for entry into the state parliament.

From 1986 to 1989 Stain was federal chairman of the Witikobund .

He received the Bavarian Order of Merit on January 16, 1961.

Political thinking

At a delegates' day of the Association of Displaced Persons in Würzburg, the Bavarian Labor Minister Stain expressed the view that the problem of displaced persons would not be solved through integration alone. There is a lack of land: 'We must not forget that Germany can find more living space again with neighbors who do not need this space and who keep it occupied by slave laborers for their collective farms.' as FAZ , May 12, 1961 only the quote from the German newspaper , May 12, 1961

literature

notes

  1. ^ Hans Henning Hahn : One hundred years of Sudeten German history. A national movement in three states. Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2007, ISBN 3-631-55372-2 , p. 26. Digitized
  2. ↑ a b c Renate Hennecke: The Bavarian labor and patronage ministers . In: DTN . No. 65 , April 2005.
  3. ↑ Walter Stain , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 21/1963 of May 13, 1963, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  4. ^ Also Die Zeit , May 19, 1961 The evil word of "living space" and other statements by St.
personal data
SURNAME Stain, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (GB / BHE), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 2001
Place of death Mainstockheim