Konrad Henlein

Konrad Ernst Eduard Henlein was a leading Sudeten German politician in Czechoslovakia. Upon the German occupation he joined the Nazi Party as well as the SS and was appointed Reichsstatthalter of the Sudetenland in 1939.

The son of an accounts clerk was born in Maffersdorf near Reichenberg , in what was then the Bohemian crown land of AustriaHungary. In light of his being a leader of the Sudeten German movement, Henleins origin was not without problems His mother, Hedvika Anna Augusta Dvoek, was the daughter of a Germanspeaking mother but her father was of Czech origin. As Henlein after 1938 pursued a Germanisation policy to nonGerman Aryans, therefore he was forced to change his stillliving mothers name from Dvoek to the more German spelling of Dworatschek, which would be thus more comfortable for Henleins career as a high Nazi official.

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