Karl Linder was a Nazi Party official who served as Gauleiter of Gau Hesse-Nassau South and Gau Hesse-Nassau as well as in many governmental positions, including as Second Burgermeister of Frankfurt am Main.
24 Facts About Karl Linder
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The son of a businessman, Karl Linder attended elementary, middle and high school in Frankfurt.
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Karl Linder then took courses in civil service and commercial trade.
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Karl Linder studied economics at the University of Frankfurt am Main but broke off his studies in 1920.
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That year, Karl Linder joined the Finance Administration in Frankfurt as a civil service candidate.
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Karl Linder passed his civil service examinations in 1923 and worked in the Finance Department as a senior tax secretary and tax inspector until 1933.
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In September 1923, Karl Linder joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
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Karl Linder became the Gau Treasurer for Gau Hesse-Nassau South, and on 1 October 1926, succeeded Walter Schultz as Gauleiter, serving until 1 April 1927 when he was succeeded by Jakob Sprenger.
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Karl Linder then became the Gau Business Manager serving until 1 January 1928.
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In May 1928 Karl Linder became a Stadtverordneter of Frankfurt.
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Also in 1928, Karl Linder became a member of the State Committee for Hesse-Nassau.
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Karl Linder served as a Party Reichsredner and was engaged in propaganda activities.
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Karl Linder remained a Reichstag deputy until the end of National Socialist rule in May 1945.
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When Sprenger moved up to the position of Landesinspekteur on 17 August 1932, Karl Linder succeeded him as Gauleiter of Hesse-Nassau South.
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On 1 January 1933, Sprenger returned as Gauleiter of the new Gau Hesse-Nassau and Karl Linder returned as his Deputy Gauleiter.
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From April 1933 to September 1939, Karl Linder headed the Gau Department of Municipal Politics, and was simultaneously the Chairman of the Hesse-Nassau office of the German Municipal Association.
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In March 1933, Karl Linder left the Deputy Gauleiter position after he was appointed Second Burgermeister and head of human resources for the city of Frankfurt under Oberburgermeister Friedrich Krebs.
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From March 1933 to July 1937, Karl Linder served as the editor of the magazine Das Rathaus.
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On 1 July 1937, when he relinquished his position as Second Burgermeister of Frankfurt, Karl Linder was again appointed Deputy Gauleiter of Gau Hesse-Nassau.
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Karl Linder held this office until the end of the regime.
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On 20 April 1941, Karl Linder was promoted to the Party rank of Befehlsleiter.
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In late March 1945, when the American army was invading Hesse-Nassau, Karl Linder opposed the orders to destroy the bridges over the Main River.
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Karl Linder went into hiding in the last days of the war, eventually escaping to Austria.
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Karl Linder disappeared for the next five years, working as a laborer under assumed names.