[1] By the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the Territory of the Saar Basin had been taken from Germany and administered by a joint French-British Governing Council under a League of Nations mandate.
Spaniol's political career began in 1923 when he became active in nationalist Völkisch circles dedicated to restoring the Saar to Germany.
Spaniol joined the Nazi Party (NSDAP) on 1 May 1931 (membership number 519,608) and by July became the Ortsgruppenleiter (Local Group Leader) in Lisdorf.
[1] During the Second World War, Spaniol performed military service with the Wehrmacht from March 1942 and was mainly deployed with a propaganda company on the eastern front.
[3] Spaniol's date of death was researched by historian Gerhard Paul and, according to "information from the personnel department of the city administration of Andernach," it was established as January 1959.