Wolfgang Kraneck

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Dr. Wolfgang Kraneck

Wolfgang Kraneck (actually Wolfgang Kraschutzki) (born February 28, 1900 in Karlsruhe , † December 30, 1943 in Zara ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

Life

Kraneck was born the son of a medical officer. After attending preparatory school and the König-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Magdeburg , he took part in the First World War with the Imperial Navy from July 1917 to November 1918 . When he retired from active service in January 1919, he had achieved the rank of ensign at sea on the large-scale ship SMS Kaiser .

Since 1919 Kraneck belonged to the border guard of Schleswig-Holstein . In the same year he began studying law and political science , which he completed in Kiel and Berlin until 1922 . 1924 doctorate he in Kiel for Dr. jur. In 1926 he came to the Eckernförde District Court as a court assessor . From 1927 to 1929 he worked as an unskilled worker in the shipping department of the Reich Ministry of Transport . In August 1930 he was appointed district judge in Altona .

From April 1932 to March 1938, Kraneck was head of the legal department of the NSDAP's foreign organization . From April 1932 to May 1933 he acted as the deputy head of the then foreign department of the Reich leadership. On November 3, 1933, he was also entrusted with the chairmanship of the Gau Court of the foreign organization and remained in this position until May 1939. In addition, he was a member of the Academy for German Law . In the Reichsmarine he was a lieutenant in the marine artillery of the reserve.

From March 1936 until his death in 1943, Kraneck was a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for constituency 5 ( Frankfurt an der Oder ) . His mandate was then continued by Theodor Leonhardt until the end of the war .

In 1943 he was in the Foreign Office lecture forming Legationsrat . Kraneck died in fighting in Yugoslavia in 1943.

literature

  • Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).
  • 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 .
  • Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871 - 1945. 5. T - Z, supplements. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 5: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 , p. 451 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Adolf Jacobsen: National Socialist Foreign Policy , 1933–1938, 1968, p. 116.