Kuhn was controversial in his time. As head of the Bund he was considered the "American Führer". In 1939, seeking to cripple the Bund, New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia had the city investigate the Bund's taxes. It found that Kuhn had embezzled over $14,000 from the Bund, spending part of that money on a mistress. District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey pressed charges and won a conviction against Kuhn. Though Kuhn was accused of embezzlement by the government, followers of the Bund disagreed with this finding and continued to hold him in high regard. During World War II, Kuhn was held by the federal government at an internment camp in Texas. In 1946 he was released and deported to Germany.
FritzKuhn (born June 29, 1955) is a German politician.
In the 2002 election for the German Bundestag he got a seat as well, and as the party failed to allow an exception on this policy he quit the position of chairman to focus on the work in parliament.
FritzKuhn is married to Waltraud Ulshöfer, and has two sons.