Eugen Munder (9 October 1899 - † 1952) [1] was an early member of the National Socialist German Workers Party and Gauleiter of Württemberg.
After attending elementary school, he attended military school in Jena, Germany. He participated in World War I, serving in Infantry Regiment 14 based in Nürnberg in 1916. From 1917-1918 he served in the Freikorps. Following Germany's defeat, Munder became an activist in the Deutschvölkischer Schutz und Trutzbund,[2] the largest, most active, and most influential anti-Semitic federation in Germany after the war.[3]
On 15 April 1925, he joined the Nazi Party with the member number 1835. He took over the chairmainship of the local Party chapter in Stuttgart and later that year became Gauleiter of Württemberg. In 1927 he expressed criticism of Hitler's life and was dismissed as Gauleiter in 1928. On 12 January 1928 he resigned from the NSDAP. His successor was Wilhelm Murr.
After the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, Munder again applied for party membership but was rejected. About the remainder of his life little is known.
Literature
- Karl Höffkes: Hitlers Politische Generale. Die Gauleiter des 3. Reiches; ein biographisches Nachschlagewerk. Grabert-Verlag, Tübingen 1997, ISBN 3-87847-163-7.
References
- ^ "Handbuch der baden-württembergischen Geschichte" Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart 2007, Band V, S. 804. ISBN 978-3-608-91371-2.
- ^ Uwe Lohalm: Völkischer Radicalism - History of the Deutschvölkischen Schutz- und Trutz-Bundes. 1919 to 1923. Leibniz-Verlag, Hamburg 1970, S. 314th ISBN 3-87473-000-X
- ^ Beurteilung des Reichskommissars für Überwachung der öffentlichen Ordnung in einem Schreiben an den Staatsgerichtshof zum Schutze der Republik, 20 November 1922, quoted from Lohalm 1970, pg. 11.