Konrad Henlein as SS-Gruppenführer

Konrad Henlein (May 6, 1898 - May 10, 1945) was the most important pro-Nazi politician in Czechoslovakia and leader of Sudeten German separatists. Konrad Henlein The copyright status of this old image is undetermined; it may still be copyrighted. ... Konrad Henlein The copyright status of this old image is undetermined; it may still be copyrighted. ... May 6 is the 125126th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (127th in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1898 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search May 10 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (131st in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Nazism. ... Sudetenland (Sudety in Czech) was the name used before 1918 and in 1938–45 for the region inhabited mostly by Sudeten Germans (German: Sudetendeutsche, Czech: Sudetšt Němci) in the various places of Bohemia. ...

Born in north Bohemian Maffersdorf (today Vratislavice nad Nisou borough in Liberec) in a mixed marriage (his father was ethnic German while his mother was Czech), he attended a German business academy in Liberec. After the First World War, during which he spent time in Italian captivity as an Austrian soldier, and subsequent breakup of Austria-Hungary he worked as a bank clerk in the interwar Czechoslovakia while taking an active part in the Sudeten German communal life. Vratislavice nad Nisou (former German name Maffersdorf) is a town in the northern Czech Republic, now part of Liberec. ... Jump to: navigation, search Liberec - the town hall Jested mountain with TV tower Liberec listen â–¶(?) (German: Reichenberg, Romany Libertsis) is a city of the Czech Republic, in the Liberec Region. ... Jump to: navigation, search World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machine guns, and poison gas World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War, the War... Austria-Hungary, also known as the Dual monarchy (or: the k. ... Sudetenland (Sudety in Czech) was the name used before 1918 and in 1938–45 for the region inhabited mostly by Sudeten Germans (German: Sudetendeutsche, Czech: Sudetšt Němci) in the various places of Bohemia. ...

In the first half of the 1930s, Henlein made a pro-Czechoslovak and overtly anti-Nazi point in his public speeches and did not become a follower of Adolf Hitler until 1937, when the pro-German camp within the Sudeten-German Party (SdP) represented by Karl Hermann Frank emerged victorious. He then swiftly aligned himself with the slogan "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer!" (One People, One Country, One leader), thus making the predominantly German-speaking border areas of Czechoslovakia known as Sudetenland a part of Germany (they had been Austrian until 1918, as was the whole Bohemia and Moravia). Such political union would, however, have removed from Czechoslovakia not only its richest iron-producing regions but also any geographic barrier to German invasion. Henlein's political party's dominance of the Sudetenland in the 1930s ultimately led to the Munich Agreement on September 30, 1938, which he helped to accomplish by influencing the British delegate Lord Runciman during the latter's visit of Czechoslovakia. Henlein presented his party's policy as one striving to fulfill the "justified claims" of the then largely nazified German minority of Czechoslovakia. In September 1938 he helped organize civil unrest raging in Czechoslovak border areas settled by Germans and instigated by Hitler's frenetic speech in Nuremberg. Since the turmoil was quickly suppressed by Czechoslovak forces, Henlein fled to Germany and made numerous intrusions into Czechoslovak territory as a commander of Sudeten German guerilla bands of Freikorps. After the final secession of the Sudetenland, Henlein's party merged with Hitler's NSDAP on November 5, 1938. Henlein then became Gruppenführer (later Obergruppenführer) SS and a Reichstag deputy. On May 1, 1939 he was nominated Gauleiter of the Sudetenland, a position he held until the end of the war. Jump to: navigation, search // Events and trends The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the global depression. ... Jump to: navigation, search Hitler Has Only Got One Ball ... Jump to: navigation, search 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Karl Hermann Frank Karl Hermann Frank (January 24, 1898-May 22, 1946) was a prominent Sudeten-German Nazi official in Czechoslovakia prior to and during World War II. Born in Karlovy Vary, Frank was taught by his father (a proponent of Georg Ritter von Schönerer’s policies) at a... Sudetenland (-German; Czech: Sudety) was the name used from 1938–45 for the region inhabited mostly by Sudeten Germans (German: Sudetendeutsche, Czech: SudetÅ¡tí NÄ›mci) in the various places of Bohemia, Moravia, and parts of Silesia. ... Sudetenland (-German; Czech: Sudety) was the name used from 1938–45 for the region inhabited mostly by Sudeten Germans (German: Sudetendeutsche, Czech: SudetÅ¡tí NÄ›mci) in the various places of Bohemia, Moravia, and parts of Silesia. ... Jump to: navigation, search // Events and trends The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the global depression. ... Jump to: navigation, search Chamberlain holds the paper containing the resolution to commit to peaceful methods signed by both Hitler and himself on his return from Germany in September 1938. ... Jump to: navigation, search September 30 is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 92 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford (1870-1949) was a prominent Liberal, later National Liberal politician in the United Kingdom from the 1900s until the 1930s. ... Jump to: navigation, search Nuremberg coat of arms Location of Nuremberg Nuremberg (German: Nürnberg) is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. ... Jump to: navigation, search The designation of Freikorps (German for Free Corps) was originally applied to voluntary armies. ... Secession is the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or political entity. ... The Nazi swastika The National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), better known as the NSDAP or the Nazi Party was a political party that was led to power in Germany by Adolf Hitler in 1933. ... 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In May 1945, while in American captivity in the barracks of Plzeň, he committed suicide by cutting his veins with his broken glasses. He was buried anonymously in the Plzeň Central Cemetery. Jump to: navigation, search 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... Jump to: navigation, search This page concerns suicide. ...

See also

• Germans in Czechoslovakia (1918-1938)

The most intractable nationality problem in the interwar period - one that played a major role in the destruction of democratic Czechoslovakia - was that of the Sudeten Germans living mostly in Sudetenland. ...

External links

• Konrad Henlein in Britannica
• Konrad Henlein (in German)