Josef Pfitzner

Josef Pfitzner (March 24, 1901 - September 6, 1945) was a politician of Nazi Germany and a writer.

Bio

Josef Pfitzner was born in Petersdorf. He was a German historian and politician and was Professor at the German University in Prague. Early on, he was attracted to Nazism and belonged to the branch of Austrian National Socialism. He held the rank of Standartenführer in the SA. In 1939, he became the German deputy mayor of Prague and held this office until May 1945. Pfitzner was executed in Prague after World War II within three hours of being convicted for speaking in favour of the Nazis, taking part in Nazi organisations, and defrauding Prague city in financial deals with the Germans. He was hanged in public before up to 50,000 spectators. Fact|date=March 2007

Work

Pfitzner took a special interest in the Sudeten German past and published "Volkstumsschutz und Nationale Bewegung". Josef Pfitzner wrote that the National Socialism of Germany was "the synthesis of the two great dynamic powers of the century, of the socialist and national idea". ["Leftism Revisited", Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Regernery Gateway, Washington, D.C., 1990. 149.] This specific brand of German socialism was perfected in the German borderlands of Austria and especially in the Sudetenland before it came to Germany.

Writings of Pfitzner

*"Das Sudentendeutschtum", (Cologne:Scharffstein, l938).
*"Volkstummsschutz und Nationale Bewegung" (Ethnic Preservation and National Movement: 1938).

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External links

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