Eugen Munder: Difference between revisions

Munder was born in [[Stuttgart]], [[Württemberg]], [[German Empire|Germany]] in 1899. After attending elementary school, he attended military school in [[Jena]] and then became an apprentice in the civil service. He was conscripted in 1917, assigned to Field Artillery Regiment 13 in [[Ulm]] and participated in [[World War I]]. He saw action on the front lines in Field Artillery Regiment No. 116 and in ''Sturmbataillon'' 16.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Michael D. |last1=Miller |first2=Andreas |last2=Schulz |title=Gauleiter: The Regional Leaders of the Nazi Party and Their Deputies, 1925-1945 | volume= II (Georg Joel - Dr. Bernhard Rust) |publisher= R. James Bender Publishing |year= 2017 |isbn=978-1-932970-32-06 |page=310}}</ref> Following Germany's defeat, Munder was demobilized in January 1919 and became an activist in the [[Deutschvölkischer Schutz und Trutzbund]],<ref>Uwe Lohalm: ''Völkischer Radicalism - History of the Deutschvölkischen Schutz- und Trutz-Bund: 1919 to 1923'' (Hamburg: Leibniz-Verlag, 1970, {{ISBN|3-87473-000-X}})</ref> the largest, most active, and most influential [[anti-Semitic]] federation in Germany after the war.<ref>"Letter to the Court: Evaluation of the Reich Commissioner for the Monitoring of Public Policy, 20 November 1922" in: Uwe Lohalm, 1970, p 11.</ref> He resumed his career in the civil service, working as an actuary and passing written and oral examinations in 1921.