Alfred Eduard Frauenfeld ( German: Alfred Eduard Frauenfeld ; May 18, 1898 , Vienna - May 10, 1977 , Hamburg ) - party and statesman of the Third Reich , one of the leaders of the occupying bodies in the USSR, general commissar of the General District of Crimea - Tavria in the Reich Commissariat Ukraine (September 1, 1942 - May 1944).
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Predecessor | Eugen Verkovich | ||||||
Successor | Leopold Tavs | ||||||
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Predecessor | not | ||||||
Successor | not | ||||||
Birth | May 18, 1898 Vein | ||||||
Death | May 10, 1977 (78 years old) Hamburg | ||||||
The consignment | National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP), 04/15/1929 - 05/08/1945 | ||||||
Profession | Bank employee | ||||||
Military service | |||||||
Years of service | 1916 - 1918 | ||||||
Affiliation | Austria-Hungary | ||||||
Type of army | Air force | ||||||
Rank | lieutenant | ||||||
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Biography
Frauenfeld was the first of three sons of a senior land judicial adviser in Vienna . In 1916, he passed the matriculation exam and volunteered for the army. Member of the First World War . He served in Galicia and Upper Italy ( Isonzo ), at the end of the war he served in the Austro-Hungarian Air Force , lieutenant. In 1918 he got married.
After the war, he received a certificate of completion as an assistant mason. In 1920-1923 studied engineering and design, in 1923-1929. - Bank employee in the Allgemeine Österreichische Bodenkreditanstalt (All-Austrian Land Loan) (Vienna), member of the Front-line Soldiers Association. In addition to serving at the bank, he also wrote and published short stories in Vienna daily newspapers.
An active participant in the Nazi movement in Austria, was a member of the Austrian Cultural Bund ( Österreichischer Kulturbund ) - an analogue of the Combat Union for German Culture created in Germany by Alfred Rosenberg ( Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur ). April 15, 1929 joined the Austrian branch of the NSDAP . As a delegate to the Austrian Cultural Bund, he participated in the NSDAP congress in Nuremberg on August 1-4, 1929.
From September 1 to December 31, 1929 he led the NSDAP Vienna-Wieden. Since January 1, 1930 - Gauleiter of Vienna. In this post, he was one of the most influential Nazis in Austria, on April 24, 1932 he was elected a member of the Vienna city council, was a member of the Privy Council and the land government, and chairman of the NSDAP faction in the Landtag . In November 1933 he was arrested on charges of anti-Austrian activities. He was arrested until May 1934, after which he was released at the insistence of the German authorities, left Austria and moved to Germany, in which he was then a party speaker of the NSDAP ( Parteiredner ).
From June 1, 1935 until the outbreak of World War II , he was the business manager and adviser to the presidium of the Imperial Chamber of the Theater ( Reichstheaterkammer ), a member of the Imperial Senate of Culture ( Reichskulturkammer ). In 1936 he was elected deputy of the Reichstag from East Dusseldorf . In the spring of 1938 he was re-elected to the Reichstag on the "List of the Fuhrer" [1] .
In 1938, he was transferred to the Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in October, he was appointed as the Consul General the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in OKW . In April 1940 he was sent to Norway , in June - to Copenhagen . Member of the French campaign (representative of the Foreign Ministry at the headquarters of the 16th Army). In early 1941, he was a representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the headquarters of the 10th Army, operating in the Balkans .
After the outbreak of war with the USSR, he was attached to the Imperial Ministry of the Eastern occupied territories to fill leadership positions. Since September 1, 1942 - the General Commissioner of the Crimea - Tavria (with headquarters in Melitopol ). In the same 1942 he made a memorandum on the feasibility of resettlement of South Tyrolean Germans in Crimea . On July 10, 1942, the Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler wrote a letter to Frauenfeld in which he thanked him for the memorandum and informed him that he had talked about this idea with A. Hitler . According to Himmler, neither Hitler nor he himself have anything against the resettlement of South Tyrolean Germans in Crimea, but this plan can only be realized after the end of the war [2] . The Crimea itself, together with Tavria (the Dnieper-Molochansky interfluve area within the modern Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions) and some other areas of southern Ukraine, in the future, according to the Ost Master Plan, were to make up the Gotengau, which was supposed to be German colonization and directly transferred to the Reich [3] , [4] , [5] , [6] , [7] .
However, all these plans were not destined to come true. After the Crimea was liberated by Soviet troops in April - May 1944, Frauenfeld returned to Vienna and then, until the end of the war, was the commander of a Wehrmacht propaganda company .
In May 1945, he was arrested by US forces and held in an internment camp in Dachau . In 1947, sentenced to 15 years in prison, released in 1948. In the years 1948-1949. worked in Herford, and since 1949 - in Hamburg , an entrepreneur, head of a construction organization in Hamburg [8] .
According to the secret police, Frauenfeld was a member of the Bruderschaft , which was founded on July 22, 1949 in Hamburg by the secret Nazi union [8] , [9] .
In the early 1950s, he was a member of the Nazi conspiratorial organization , the Naumann Circle , a group of Nazi figures from the Third Reich era who rallied around the former state secretary of the Imperial Ministry of Education and Propaganda Werner Naumann . In 1952/1953 this group tried to lead the neo-Nazi movement in Germany and use the structures of the Free Democratic Party of Germany for the Nazis to penetrate the legislative and executive authorities of Germany [9] .
Notes
- ↑ Der Großdeutsche Reichstag 1938. IV. Wahlperiode (nach dem 30. Januar 1933) Mit Zustimmung des Herrn Reichstagspräsidenten herausgegeben von E. Kienast, Direktor beim Reichstag ”, Berlin, im Juni 1938, RvDecker's Verlag, E. Schenck, Berlin W9. Page 56, 128, 485.
- ↑ "ACHTEN SIE AUF DIE ZWIEBEL DER HERBSTZEITLOSE." - “Der Spiegel” ( Der Spiegel ), No. 8, 1968, p. 60 (February 19, 1968: http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-46122791.html ). (Source: Helmut Heiber, “Briefe an und von Himmler” , 1968.)
- ↑ Encyclopedia of World War II - Administrative and territorial structure of the Third Reich
- ↑ General Plan Ost Part 2 2. aplan-ost.php
- ↑ When there was no Victory ... | CRIMEAN RESPONCAL PARTY OF UKRAINE
- ↑ General Plan “Ost” - Meyer-Hatling Conrad - Download free book, Read online, fb2 txt html, Page 5 - LikeBook.Ru
- ↑ Igor Petrov, historian. GENERAL PLAN “OST” IN QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. Actual History
- ↑ 1 2 Ernst Klee Ernst Klee Dictionary of Persons of the Third Reich ( Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich ). - Frankfurt am Main, Fischer Publishing, 2007. p. 162. - ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . (2nd edition)
- ↑ 1 2 Reinhard Opitz “Fascism and Neofascism”. - M., "Progress", 1988. - 280 p. Part II, Ch. 5. "Neofascism and its development trends in the federal republic of Germany"
Literature
- Zalessky K.A. Leaders and commanders of the Third Reich: Biographical Encyclopedic Dictionary .. - M .: "Veche", 2000. - S. 381–382. - 576 [16 ill.] P. - ISBN 5-7838-0550-5 .
- Zalessky K.A. Who was who in the Third Reich: Biographical Encyclopedic Dictionary .. - M .: Publishing House AST: LLC Publishing House Astrel, 2002. - S. 637–638. - 942 [2] p. - ISBN 5-17-015753-3 (LLC "Publishing house AST"); ISBN 5-271-05091-2 (Astrel Publishing House LLC).
- Zalessky K.A. NSDAP. Power in the Third Reich. - M .: Eksmo , 2005. - S. 544-545. - 672 p. - ISBN 5-699-09780-5 .
- Ernst Klee ( Ernst Klee ) "Dictionary of the personalities of the Third Reich" ( "Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich" ). - Frankfurt am Main, Fischer Publishing, 2007. p. 162. - ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . (2nd edition) (German)
- Werner Bräuninger "Meisterstück falscher Behandlung. "Alfred E. Frauenfeld und die Probleme der Verwaltung der besetzten Ostgebiete." In: Werner Bräuninger “Hitlers Kontrahenten in der NSDAP. 1921-1945 ". - Herbig, München 2004, ISBN 3-7766-2367-5 , S. 247-257. (German)