Adalbert Gabriel (5 April 1907 – 1958) was a

Zipser German Zipser German (German: Zipserisch, Zipserdeutsch, Hungarian: ''szepességi szász nyelv'' or ''cipszer nyelv'') is a Germanic dialect which developed in the Upper Zips region of what is now Slovakia among people who settled there from central G ...

physician and politician.

Biography

Gabriel was born on 5 April 1907 in Zipser Bela. He was the son of a trader. He received his middle and secondary schooling in Käsmark. He went on to study

Medicine Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care pract ...

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

. He studied two semesters at the ''Institut für Grenz- und Auslanddeutschtum'' in

Marburg Marburg ( or ) is a university town in the German federal state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district (''Landkreis''). The town area spreads along the valley of the river Lahn and has a population of approximate ...

. Soon after passing his matriculation exams, Gabriel emerged as a political activist. In Zipser German politics of the interbellum years, Gabriel represented a younger generation criticizing the traditional pro-Magyar position of the community. He was a key leader of the movement in Löwenberg in Schlesien. In 1927 he became a member of the Carpathian German People's Council. In the run-up to the

1929 Czechoslovak parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Czechoslovakia on 27 October 1929.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p471 The Republican Party of Farmers and Peasants, emerged as the largest party, winning 46 se ...

Gabriel was a founding member of the

Carpathian German Party The Carpathian German Party (german: Karpatendeutsche Partei, abbreviated KdP) was a political party in Czechoslovakia, active amongst the Carpathian German minority of Slovakia and Subcarpathian Rus'. It began as a bourgeois centrist party, but ...

. Following the 1938

Munich Agreement The Munich Agreement ( cs, Mnichovská dohoda; sk, Mníchovská dohoda; german: Münchner Abkommen) was an agreement concluded at Munich on 30 September 1938, by Nazi Germany, Germany, the United Kingdom, French Third Republic, France, and Fa ...

Gabriel was named as District Leader of the German Party in the Zips autonomous district, District Head Physician in of the Carpathian German Medical College and member of ''

Freiwillige Schutzstaffel ''Freiwillige Schutzstaffel'' ('Voluntary Protection Corps', abbreviated FS) was a paramilitary organization in the World War II Slovak Republic. FS was founded in late 1938. Modelled on the German '' Sturmabteilung'' (SA) and the '' Allgemeine SS' ...

'' paramilitary organization. By presidential decree, on 20 November 1941 Gabriel was appointed as a member of the representing the German community.
Historický časopis Historického Ústavu Slovenskej Akadémie Vied, Vol. 54
'. Vyd-vo Slovenskej akadémie vied, 2006. p. 473 He was a member of the Transport Committee of the parliament. According to Czechoslovak sources, in his role as Transport Committee member Gabriel actively supported deportations of the Jewish population of Slovakia. In the final phase of

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

, Gabriel fled to Germany. Details on his later years are reportedly sketchy, supposedly he was included in a list of war criminals wanted by the Czechoslovak authorities. He reportedly lived in East Germany after the war, where he would have worked as a physician. Gabriel died in 1958.

References

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