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Franz Hayler (29 August 1900 in
Franz Hayler (29 August 1900 in Schwarzenfeld
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The melodic death metal band Deadlock
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– 11 September 1972 in Aschau im Chiemgau
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Transport
Aschau im Chiemgau station is on the Chiemgau Railway.
Personalities
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) was a German self-employed
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salesman
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who rose during the Third Reich
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to become State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Economics and deputy to the Reich Economics Minister. He was a member of the NSDAP
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and the SS.
Career
Hayler became involved inpolitics
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early on, fighting in the ''Freikorps Oberland
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'' against the Bavarian Soviet Republic
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, in the Ruhr area
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and Upper Silesia
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, and was a participant in Adolf Hitler
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's failed Beerhall Putsch
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. On 1 December 1931, he joined the Nazi Party
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as member no. 754133, as well as the SS (membership no. 64697) on 23 March 1934, where in 1939 he rose to ''Standartenführer
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'' (Colonel), and later ''Brigadeführer
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'' (Major General) at the SD's main office.
Hayler, who had been a self-employed salesman since 1927, furthermore took up offices in many economic associations, becoming in June 1933 the leader of the Reich Association of Sellers of Colonial-Ware, Delicatessen and Retail Food Dealers Federation (registered club, ''i.e.'' e.V.), shortened to ''Rekofei'', and from 1934 to 1943 leader of ''Wirtschaftsgruppe Einzelhandel'' ("Economic Group Retail"), and still later, in 1938, leader of the ''Reichsgruppe Handel'' (Reich Group Commerce).
From 11 September 1942 and until the end of World War II
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, he was a member of the '' Reichstag'', taking a position in the Reich Economics Ministry in November 1943, where he was appointed State Secretary and Deputy to Walther Funk
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, the Reich Economics Minister.
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hayler, Franz 1900 births 1972 deaths 20th-century Freikorps personnel Nazi Party officials Nazis who participated in the Beer Hall Putsch People from the Kingdom of Bavaria Nazi Party politicians SS-Brigadeführer Members of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany Recipients of the Knights Cross of the War Merit Cross