Franz Hayler
Franz Hayler | |
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State Secretary Reich Ministry of Economics | |
In office 20 November 1943 – 8 May 1945 | |
Preceded by | Friedrich Landfried |
Succeeded by | Office abolished |
Personal details | |
Born | 29 August 1900 Royal Bavarian Army Schutzstaffel |
Years of service | 1917–1918 1933–1945 |
Rank | SS-Gruppenführer |
Unit | 3rd Royal Bavarian Foot Artillery Regiment |
Battles/wars | World War I World War II |
Military awards | Silesian Eagle Knight's Cross of the War Merit Cross |
Franz Hayler (29 August 1900 – 11 September 1972) was a German self-employed businessman who rose during the
Early life
Hayler was the son of a
Business career
Hayler, who had been a self-employed businessman since 1927, also held executive positions in several business associations, becoming the leader of the Association of German Merchants of Colonial Goods, Delicatessen and Food Retail in June 1933, the leader of the Wirtschaftsgruppe Einzelhandel (Retail Business Group) in May 1934, and leader of the Reichsgruppe Handel (Reich Trade Group) in May 1938. In 1941, he was made a member of the Reichsvereinigung Kohle (Reich Coal Association). He also sat on the
SS service
In mid-1933, Hayler joined the SS (membership no. 64,697), being commissioned an SS-Untersturmführer on 4 April 1934.[4] Later assigned to the main office of the SD, the Nazi Party's intelligence service, he rose to SS-Oberführer on 10 September 1939.[5] He would later be promoted to SS-Brigadeführer and, finally, SS-Gruppenführer in 1943.[3] On 17 August 1944, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the War Merit Cross.
Political career and post-war
On 1 December 1931, Hayler joined the
After Germany's defeat in the
References
- ^ Franz Hayler entry, p. 176 in Das Deutsche Führerlexikon 1934-1935
- ^ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 13, 1467.
- ^ a b c d Klee 2007, p. 234.
- ^ SS Seniority List, 1 December 1937, pp. 52–53, #1003
- ^ Schiffer Publishing Ltd. 2000, p. 22.
- ^ Hayler's Nuremberg Trial Testimony
Sources
- Klee, Ernst (2007). Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945. Frankfurt-am-Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8.
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd., ed. (2000). SS Officers List: SS-Standartenführer to SS-Oberstgruppenführer (As of 30 January 1942). Schiffer Military History Publishing. ISBN 0-7643-1061-5.
External links
- Newspaper clippings about Franz Hayler in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW
- "Germany to get fish conscious". The Spokesman-Review. 22 December 1936. Retrieved 18 January 2013.