Werner Kuhnt (National Socialist)

Werner Kuhnt

Werner Kuhnt (born June 9, 1911 in Ostrowo , Posen province , † February 26, 2000 in Munich ) was a German politician ( NSDAP , later NPD ).

Life and work

After attending primary school in Ostrowo, Kuhnt moved to Cottbus in 1920 . He passed the Abitur at the Reform Realgymnasium there and then studied economics and law at the universities in Breslau , Königsberg and Berlin .

Kuhnt joined the NSDAP ( membership number 135.664) and the SA in 1929 . He had been a member of the Hitler Youth (HJ) since June 1929. From February 1932 he was Bannführer of the HJ-Oberbanns Mittelschlesien, from January 1934 he was in the rank of Oberbannführer full-time HJ leader Kurmark and then Mark Brandenburg in Frankfurt (Oder) . In August 1934 he was promoted to HJ area leader. On January 30, 1938, he was awarded the NSDAP's Golden Badge of Honor . He was also the holder of the Golden Medal of Honor of the Hitler Youth. From 1938 to 1945 he was a member of the Reichstag . From November 1939 he also headed the HJ area in Wartheland and was promoted to senior district leader in this role in August 1942. In January 1940 he became regional inspector of the Reich Youth Leadership . After Helmut Möckel's accidental death , he was discussed as his successor as HJ staff leader.

During the Second World War , he served in the Air Force of the Wehrmacht in 1942 and received several awards, including the German Cross in Gold. Most recently he held the rank of lieutenant .

After the end of the war he was in US captivity, from which he was released in 1947 after internment. After his release, he worked as a sales representative. In addition, he worked as a speaker at the Society for Free Journalism .

After 1947 Kuhnt first joined the DP , had been a member of the GDP since 1961 and switched to the NPD in 1965. He was later elected deputy state chairman of the NPD Baden-Württemberg . He was a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg from 1968 to 1972. Here he was first deputy chairman until May 1968 and then until 1972 chairman of the NPD parliamentary group.

In 1976 he was charged in Stuttgart with sedition and defamation of the memory of the deceased, after he had previously claimed in an edition of the German voice that Anne Frank's diary was “a forgery” and “a fraud” and not written by Anne Frank , but the product of "a New York scriptwriter in collaboration with the girl's father". He was later acquitted because of the right to freedom of expression.

In the episode of the ZDF documentary series 100 Years - The Countdown to the Pogrom Night 1938, he had his say as a contemporary witness.

literature

Michael Buddrus : Total education for total war. Hitler Youth and National Socialist Youth Policy. Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-11615-2 .
Christoph Kopke: Werner Kuhnt - propagandist for Germany. In: Wolfgang Praske: perpetrators helpers free riders. Volume 4: People affected by the Nazi regime from Upper Swabia. Kugelberg Verlag, Gerstetten 2015, ISBN 978-3-945893-00-5 , pp. 139-149.

Web links

Literature by and about Werner Kuhnt in the catalog of the German National Library
Werner Kuhnt in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 345.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Michael Buddrus: Total education for total war. Hitler Youth and National Socialist Youth Policy . KG Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-11615-2 , p. 1174 .
^ Klaus D. Patzwall : The Golden Party Badge and its honorary awards 1934-1944 . Patzwall, Norderstedt 2004, ISBN 3-931533-50-6 , p. 76 .
↑ Kuhnt, Werner . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Kaaserer to Kynast] (= KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 695 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 508 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).

personal data
SURNAME	Kuhnt, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politicians (NSDAP, NPD), MdR, MdL
DATE OF BIRTH	June 9, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ostrowo , Poznan Province
DATE OF DEATH	February 26, 2000
Place of death	Munich

[1] Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 345.

[Buddrus1174-2] Michael Buddrus: Total education for total war. Hitler Youth and National Socialist Youth Policy . KG Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-11615-2 , p. 1174 .

[3] Klaus D. Patzwall : The Golden Party Badge and its honorary awards 1934-1944 . Patzwall, Norderstedt 2004, ISBN 3-931533-50-6 , p. 76 .

[4] Kuhnt, Werner . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Kaaserer to Kynast] (= KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 695 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 508 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).