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Franz Barth (* May 11th, 1886 in Groitzsch - † April 13th, 1951 in Bremen) was a German Abgeordneter in the NSDAP during World War II.

Life and work
After attending the elementary school and the Academy of Graphic Arts in Leipzig and Munich Barth earned his living as a graphic designer and owner of a graphic art institution in Leipzig. From 1914 to 1918 he took the Infantry Regiment 105 at the First World War in part. During the war he was promoted to sergeant and with the Iron Cross II. Class, the Friedrich-August medal in silver, the Saxon Cross of Honor, the Military Cross awarded and the Austrian and Hungarian war medal.

Without becoming a member of the Nazi party took Barth in the 1930s tasks in the National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK). On November 9, 1937, he was promoted to the NSKK Oberführer and entrusted on 1 December 1937, the leadership of the motor group Thuringia.

From May 1938 to the end of the Nazi regime in the spring of 1945, Barth was sitting as a deputy in the Nazi Reichstag in which he represented the constituency 12 (Thuringia).

Awards

 * Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse (1914)


 * Friedrich-August-Medaille in Silber


 * Sächsischen Ehrenkreuz


 * Kriegsverdienstkreuz


 * Kriegsmedaille