Edmund Stoeckle

Edmund Stoeckle (1899 in Augsburg - 1986 in Ottobeuren) was a German politician. He was the mayor of Augsburg, Germany, between 1933 and 1934. He was a member of the Nazi Party.

The son of Andreas Stoeckle, a prominent Catholic lay activist in Munich who was head of the state comptroller's office ( Oberrechungshof), with key connections with the Reform Catholic movement, Edmund emerged as a leading figure within student circles in Munich , furthering the volkisch-Nazi ideas of Catholic student activists like Hansjörg Maurer, Josef Roth and Alfred Miller.[1] He enrolled at the University of Munich in the autumn of 1919, having seen battle action on the western front 1917-1918, and on the streets of Munich as a member of the Freikorps Epp in the spring of 1919.[2]

References
  1. Derek Hastings, Catholicism and the Roots of Nazism, Oxford, p.91
  2. Stoeckle SS file, Berlin Document Centre, 9 June 1937, Stoeckle letter to Heinrich Himmler


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