Josef Pfitzner (March 24, 1901 - September 6, 1945) was a Sudetenland German who wrote on Nazism.

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 mayor of Prague. (1) Pfitzner was executed in Prague after WWII 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 with up to 50,000 spectators. (3)

Work

Pfitzner took a special interest in the Sudeten German past and published Volkstummsschutz und Nationale Bewegung. (1) 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". (2) This specific brand of German socialism was perfected in the German borderlands of Austria and especially in the Sudetenland before it came to Germany.

References

1. members of the Axis Military Forum "member" and "Helly Angel" contributed info from the The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich, Christian Zentner and Friedemann Bedürftig.
2. Leftism Revisited, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Regernery Gateway, Washington, D.C., 1990. 149.
3. Ron from the Axis Military Forum.

Writings of Pfitzner

• Das Sudentendeutschtum, (Cologne:Scharffstein, l938).
• Volkstummsschutz und Nationale Bewegun (Ethnic Preservation and National Movement: 1938).