Eugene Maier
Eugen Maier (born November 13, 1899 in Untertürkheim , † January 16, 1940 in Ulm ) was a German politician of the NSDAP .
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The son of a switchman attended elementary school in Bad Mergentheim ; the secondary school leaving Maier for financial reasons early. Interrupted from his military service, Maier worked as a clerk at the railroad from 1915 to 1921. From 1916 to 1918 he took part in the First World War with the Reserve Infantry Regiment 247, the Bavarian Storm Battalion 15 and the Infantry Regiment 476 , in which he fought on the Western Front and was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class and the Wound Badge . After the war he was a member of the Border Guard East from January to November 1919 , with whom he fought as a member of the 72nd Rifle Regiment and the 26th Rifle Regiment in Lithuania . Between 1921 and 1932 he worked as a clerk at an electricity company, as a foundry worker, as a machine former, as a workshop clerk and as a commission traveler.
Maier was a member of the free trade unions between 1920 and 1925 ; At times he belonged to the free thinker movement . In April 1928 he joined the NSDAP and the SA in Geislingen an der Steige ; in the latter he took over duties as a squad leader. In the NSDAP he acted as local group leader from February 1929 , then as district leader for Geislingen and Göppingen. From December 1931 to 1933 he officiated as leader of the NS council faction in Geislingen. In October 1932 Maier became a full-time district leader of the NSDAP in Ulm; since August 1931 he had held management positions in the Ulm area.
After the transfer of power to the National Socialists, Maier was appointed special political commissioner for the city and regional office of Ulm in April 1933 . From April 1933 until its dissolution in autumn 1933 he was a member of the Württemberg state parliament . He then sat from November 1933 until his death in 1940 as a member of the National Socialist Reichstag , in which he represented constituency 31 (Württemberg). From April 1933 he was the leader of the NS parliamentary group in Ulm. In the NSDAP Maier acted from June 1933 as district inspector of the NSDAP in Württemberg-Hohenzollern. In 1936 he was appointed Reich speaker.
In Ulm, Maier arranged for pastors to be arrested in rows in March 1935 in order to prevent them from reading out a letter from regional bishop Theophil Wurm in front of their congregations , in which he condemned the idea of racism as a worldview. In November 1938, in an anti-Semitic speech, he justified the destruction of the Ulm synagogue during the Reichspogromnacht .
Maier died in the Ulm hospital in January 1940 as a result of gastric surgery. Gauleiter Wilhelm Murr and Police Director Wilhelm Dreher spoke at the elaborately staged funeral ceremonies . Adolf Mauer continued his mandate in the Reichstag .
literature
- Sabine Schmidt: Eugen Maier. NSDAP district leader 1932–1940 . In: Hans Eugen Specker (Ed.): Ulm in the Second World War , (= research on the history of the city. Documentation series, Volume 6) Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-17-009254-5 , pp. 476–478.
- Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , p. 396 f .
- Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 536 .
- Frank Raberg : Biographical Lexicon for Ulm and Neu-Ulm 1802-2009 . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft im Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-8040-3 , p. 257 f .
Web links
- Eugen Maier in the database of members of the Reichstag
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maier, Eugene |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (NSDAP), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 13, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Untertürkheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 16, 1940 |
| Place of death | Ulm |