Eugen Munder

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Eugen Munder
Gauleiter of Gau Württemberg-Hohenzollern
In office
8 July 1925 – 9 January 1928
Appointed byAdolf Hitler
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byWilhelm Murr
Personal details
Born(1899-10-09)9 October 1899
Stuttgart, Kingdom of Württemberg, Germany
Died20 November 1952(1952-11-20) (aged 53)
Stuttgart, West Germany
Political partyNazi Party
Military service
Allegiance German Empire
Branch/service Imperial German Army
Years of service1917-1919
Battles/warsWorld War I

Eugen Munder (9 October 1899 – 20 November 1952)[1] was an early member of the Nazi Party and Gauleiter of Gau Württemberg-Hohenzollern.

Life

Munder was born in

anti-Semitic federation in Germany after the war.[4]
He resumed his career in the civil service, working as an actuary and passing written and oral examinations in 1921.

By 1921 Munder was already active on behalf of the Nazi Party in Stuttgart. On 15 April 1925 he joined the Party (Membership No. 1835) when the ban on it was lifted. He was a very effective organizer and re-founded the party's Gau headquarters, becoming the local branch leader (Ortsgruppenleiter) in Stuttgart. Adolf Hitler appointed him Gauleiter of Württemberg after a rally in Stuttgart on 8 July 1925. From 1925 to 1928 Munder served as the editor and publisher of a local Nazi newspaper, The Southwest German Observer.[5] In 1927 Munder expressed criticism of Hitler's lifestyle. He also was involved in a major row over the candidate list for upcoming elections to the Württemberg Landtag. When Hitler supported his rival Christian Mergenthaler to head the list over him, Munder resigned as Gauleiter on 9 January 1928. His successor was Wilhelm Murr.[6] Munder then was expelled from the NSDAP on 18 January 1928 and thereafter played no active part in politics.[5]

He resumed his career as a civil servant, working largely in the field of health insurance. After the

Nazi seizure of power in 1933, Munder reapplied for party membership but was rejected on two occasions. In 1935 he became the head of the General Health Insurance Office in Stuttgart. Finally, he was readmitted to the Party effective 1 August 1935. He also joined the Sturmabteilung (SA) around this time. In October 1944 he was recruited as a platoon leader in the Württemberg Volkssturm, rising to battalion leader in January 1945.[7]

After the end of

de-Nazification court. After suffering epileptic seizures, Munder was released from custody in July 1948 on medical grounds and placed on parole. He was found to have a slow growing brain tumor and he died on 20 November 1952.[8]

References

  1. ) Volume V, p. 804.
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  4. ^ "Letter to the Court: Evaluation of the Reich Commissioner for the Monitoring of Public Policy, 20 November 1922" in: Uwe Lohalm, 1970, p 11.
  5. ^ a b Miller & Schulz 2017, p. 312.
  6. ^ Detlef Mühlberger, "Organization & Development of the Nazi Party" in: Hitler's Voice: The Völkisher Beobachter, 1920-1933 (Bern: Peter Lang AG, 2004) p. 142
  7. ^ Miller & Schulz 2017, p. 314.
  8. ^ Miller & Schulz 2017, p. 315.

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