Franz Stangl Research Paper

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Franz Stangl was a policeman, weaver, Captain of a cruel German organization in the SS Commandant. Was a Commandant of the Treblinka and Sobibór death camp. Stangl was born on March 16, 1908 in Altmunster, Austria and died on June 28, 1971 in Dusseldorf, Germany. Franz's childhood was in a small town in Austria, he was son of a watchman, had a sister who was 10 years older than him. He was scare of his father because Franz would get "leathered." he lived in a military household, when stangl was 8 years old, 2 years after the beginning of WWI, his father dies of malnutrition. Stangl mother a widow; remarries. Stangl get close to one of his stepbrother Wolfgang. Franz drops out of school at the age 15, and becomes an apprentice weaver a (trainee). By the age 18 he becomes the youngest master weaver in Austria, he is proud of his …show more content…
He works in the mills for another 2 years, later he had other people working for him. He gave mostly 80% of his earnings to his parents. He was in the zither club at the time he dropped out of school, but he supplemented his pay by giving lessons on the zither, were he thought himself to play the instrument. By 1931 at the age of 23 years old it took him five years to become a master weaver. But he reached his end of the bargain because of the illness caused by the dust in his weaving industry. His industry was unhealthy, because the dust went into your lungs. Later he joined the Austrian policeman in 1931. Stayed in school for police traffic and become a rookie but turned out to join the “Roti Squad” in 1933; joined the criminal police department in 1935. Stangl got married in 1935, to his wife name Therese who was a social worker. They had three daughters. She and stangl had a hard childhood with brutal fathers, grew view close. But in the turn of events they started to drift apart when she became upset with his involvement with the Nazi Party. Thereafter in his short period of time the Austrian chancellor was

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