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(July 2009)| |Freikorps leader Henlein, September 1938|
|Reichsstatthalter and Gauleiter of the Reichsgau Sudetenland| 1
May 1939 – 8 May 1945 6 May 1898| |Died||10 May 1945 Plzeň
(Pilsen), Czechoslovakia |Political party||SdP (until 1938)
NSDAP (from 1939) converted to Protestantism in 1926 Konrad
Ernst Eduard Henlein (6 May 1898 – 10 May 1945) was a leading
Sudeten German politician in Czechoslovakia. Upon the German
occupation he joined the Nazi Party as well as the SS and was
appointed Reichsstatthalter of the Sudetenland in 1939. Early
life  The son of an accounts clerk was born in Maffersdorf
(present-day Vratislavice nad Nisou), in what was then the
Bohemian crown land of Austria-Hungary. In light of his being a
leader of the Sudeten German movement, Henlein's origin was not
without problems. His mother, Hedvika (Hedwig) Anna Augusta
Dvořáček, was the daughter of a German-speaking mother but her
father was of Czech origin. As Henlein after 193