Frits Clausen

Frits Clausen ( born November 12, 1893 in Aabenraa, † December 5, 1947 in Copenhagen) was from 1933 to 1944 leader of the Danish National Socialists ( DNSAP ).

Frits Clausen came from a stressed -minded Danish family from North Schleswig. At the First World War, he took part as a German soldier. In 1918 he went to Copenhagen to study medicine. In 1924 he returned to North Schleswig and took over a country medical practice in Bovrup (German Baurup ) at Varnæs (German Warnitz ), 13 kilometers southeast of Aabenraa.

In January 1931 he joined the DNSAP and in 1933 became their " leader". While there, he managed the party nationwide to organize and find in all walks of adherents, but the party remained small in number. The majority of the Danish population was prevailing in Germany Nazism against hostile.

Despite support from Germany, the DNSAP gained in the election to the Folketing in 1939, only three out of 148 seats. After the German occupation of Denmark in April 1940 Clausen hoped to be able to take over the government of the country soon. Although he and his party still supported by the German side, on the other hand, failed to make German leadership to large interventions in the Danish domestic politics in order not to foment popular resistance. So let the occupying power in 1943, a relatively free election to the Folketing to. This was for the DNSAP, while the democratic parties, the full support of the electorate were a fiasco at extremely high voter turnout. Within the party was no longer considered suitable for Clausen thereafter.

Although he did not formally gave up his party leadership, Frits Clausen moved, the now strong alcohol zusprach, back and signed up in November 1943 as a volunteer doctor in the Waffen -SS. But his service ended after a short time in a mental hospital for alcoholics in Würzburg. On 5 May 1944, a Tripartite his party forced him to give up the presidency.

Shortly after the surrender of German troops on 5 May 1945 Frits Clausen was arrested. In prison Clausen wrote nor his memoirs, which were published comments by the historian John T. Lauridsen 2003. On December 5, 1947 Clausen died before a trial against him had to be opened.