![]() It was in this atmosphere of German-Czech tensions that Henlein grew up and which shaped his views.ĭuring his imprisonment he developed his first ideas about a Great German nationalism.Initially he was a bank clerk. In 1912, the German community of Reichenberg attempted to leave the Austrian Crown land of Bohemia and to set up their district as a new Crown land which would not accept any Czechs, only to be overruled by Vienna which insisted that Bohemia was not divisible. The ethnic Germans of Reichenberg often cast Czechs as “ignorant peasants” whose cultural level was considered much lower than that of the German community and willing to work for lower wages. At the time when Henlein was growing up, Reichenberg was a center of tension between the long-established German community against newly arrived Czechs from the countryside who had come to work in the town’s factories. ![]() ![]() Henlein, Konrad Ernst Eduard, born 06-05-1898 in Maffersdorf, Bohemia, His father was a Volks-German and an accounts clerk, Konrad Henlein Sr, and his mother, Hedvika Anna Augusta Dworatschek (Dvořáček), was the daughter of a family of Czech and German Bohemian origin.
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