Karl Fiehler

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Karl Fiehler : biography

31 August 1895 – 8 December 1969

Karl Fiehler (31 August 1895 – 8 December 1969) was a German politician of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) and Lord Mayor of Munich from 1933 until 1945. He was born in Braunschweig, German Empire but died in Dießen am Ammersee, Bavaria, West Germany.

Literature

  • , research associate of the Munich "Institut für Zeitgeschichte" (Engl.: "Institute of Contemporary History") and curator of the (a permanent exhibition at Obersalzberg near Berchtesgaden on Hitler’s favourite holiday resort), writes presently within the scope of a research project his dissertation on the topic: "Karl Fiehler. Eine politische Biographie" (Engl.: "Karl Fiehler. A political biography").
  • Klee, Ernst: Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich : Wer war was vor und nach 1945. – 3. ed. – Frankfurt a.M.: S. Fischer, 2005. – pbk, 736 p. – (Fischer-Taschenbücher ; 16048). – ISBN 3-596-16048-0. – EUR 16,95
  • Large, David C.: Where ghosts walked : Munich’s road to the Third Reich. – New York ; London : W.W. Norton, 1997. – xxv, 406 p : ill ; 25 cm. – Hardcover. – ISBN 0-393-03836-X. -$ 32.50, £ 23.00 (list prices) (see and )
  • München – "Hauptstadt der Bewegung" : Bayerns Metropole und der Nationalsozialismus / . Ed. by Richard Bauer … 2. ed. – Wolfratshausen : Ed. Minerva, 2002. – 488 p. – ISBN 3-932353-63-3. – EUR 28,00
  • Pfoertner, Helga: Mahnmale, Gedenkstätten, Erinnerungsorte für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus in München 1933-1945. – München : Literareon im Utz-Verl. – 3 volumes, bound in boards:
    • Vol. 1: A to H. – 2001. – vii, 225 p. – ISBN 3-89675-859-4. – EUR 19,80
    • Vol. 2: I to P. – 2003. – 309 p. – ISBN 3-8316-1025-8. – EUR 19,80
    • Vol. 3: Q to Z. – 2005. – 199 p. – ISBN 3-8316-1026-6. – EUR 19,80
  • Rosenfeld, Gavriel D.: Munich and memory : architecture, monuments, and the legacy of the Third Reich . – Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, 2000. – Hardcover. – xxiii, 433 p. – (Weimar and now ; 22). – ISBN 0-520-21910-4. – $ 50.00, £ 27.50 (list price)
  • Vieregg, Hildegard: Wächst Gras darüber? : München: Hochburg des Nationalsozialismus und Zentrum des Widerstands / . – München : MPZ, 1993.- 240 p. – (MPZ-Themenhefte zur Zeitgeschichte). – ISBN 3-929862-25-5. – EUR 5,11
  • Wistrich, Robert S.: Who’s who in Nazi Germany. – London ; New York : Routledge, 1995. – x, 296p. – (Rev. ed. Previous ed. published London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982). – ISBN 0-415-12723-8 (Hardcover, £ 35,00 list price) ; ISBN 0-415-11888-3 (pbk, $ 26,95 list price)

Decorations

  • Iron Cross (1914), 2nd class
  • Wound Badge (1918) in Black
  • Cross of Honour for Frontline Combatants (1935)
  • War Merit Cross, 1st and 2nd class
  • Golden Party Badge of the NSDAP
  • Blood Order
  • Anschluss Medal
  • Sudetenland Medal
  • NSDAP Long Service Award in Bronze, Silver and Gold
  • SS Honour Ring ("Totenkopfring")
  • Sword of honor of the Reichsführer-SS

Biography

Party career until the "Machtergreifung" (English: "Power takeover")

As a child, Karl Fiehler attended a secondary modern school in Munich and afterwards he began a merchant apprenticeship, which he continued in Schleswig-Holstein in 1914. Fiehler took part in World War I and was decorated with the "Eisernes Kreuz" (see "Iron Cross"), second class ("EK II"). In 1919 he entered the local government of the City of Munich as an administration trainee and in 1922 successfully passed the examination for the administrative and clerical grade. By 1920 he had already joined the Nazi-Party with the membership number 37. In 1923, by now a convinced National Socialist, Karl Fiehler became a member of the "Stoßtrupp Hitler" (), that had been established to protect the Nazi-Führer from encroachments of the party-owned "Sturmabteilung" (), and from which the "Schutzstaffel" () emerged in 1925. On 8 and 9 November 1923 he participated actively in the failed "Beer Hall Putsch" (German: "Hitlerputsch"). For his participation Fiehler was sentenced to 15 months confinement in Landsberg fortress (German term: "Festungshaft").