Edmund Stoeckle
# Edmund Stoeckle

Edmund Stoeckle (1899 in Augsburg - 1986 in Ottobeuren) was a German politician. He was the mayor of Augsburg, Germany, between 1933 and 1934. He was a member of the Nazi Party.

The son of Andreas Stoeckle, a prominent Catholic lay activist in Munich who was head of the state comptroller's office ( Oberrechungshof), with key connections with the Reform Catholic movement, Edmund emerged as a leading figure within student circles in Munich , furthering the volkisch-Nazi ideas of Catholic student activists like Hansjörg Maurer, Josef Roth and Alfred Miller. He enrolled at the University of Munich in the autumn of 1919, having seen battle action on the western front 1917-1918, and on the streets of Munich as a member of the Freikorps Epp in the spring of 1919.

