Waldemar Geyer

Waldemar Geyer

Waldemar Friedrich Gustav Geyer (born March 14, 1882 in Breslau , † September 5, 1947 in Hanover ) was a German politician (NSDAP) and police chief.

Life

Geyer was educated from 1893 to 1897 at the royal military educational institute Schloss Annaburg in the Torgau district . From 1897 to 1900 he completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer. From 1900 he attended a building trade school and completed an apprenticeship at the Berlin Museum of Applied Arts . He then worked for nine years as an assistant to a secret building council in Berlin, and later as an architect and building surveyor . Most recently with the rank of vice sergeant and garrison administration inspector, Geyer took part in World War I from 1914 to 1918 , in which he was seriously wounded.

After the end of the war, Geyer worked in the army administration until September 1920. From June 15, 1922 to October 31, 1924 he was a contract employee at the tax office in Wilmersdorf .

Between 1921 and 1925, Geyer held leading positions in völkisch combat units: from 1921 to 1923 he was "Deutschwart" in the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund ; after that he was a member of the Labor Liberation League. The aim of this organization, founded in Berlin in October 1922 by Freikorps leaders Gerhard Roßbach and Heinz Oskar Hauenstein , was to recruit new members in the Berlin area for the NSDAP , which at that time was still largely limited to Bavaria . Geyer later belonged to the Frontbann founded by Ernst Röhm , a rescue organization of the SA that was banned after the Hitler putsch . Within the front line, Geyer was entrusted with leading the groups from Berlin and Brandenburg. In 1924 and 1925, Geyer led the Wilmersdorf local group of the National Socialist Freedom Party (NSFP), a list that included the NSDAP, which was banned at the time.

In October 1925, Geyer was temporarily arrested along with the entire leadership of the Frontbann for being a secret group.

From December 1925 Geyer was involved in the preparation of the founding of the Berlin Sturmabteilung (SA): This he officially carried out on March 22, 1926 when he and Kurt Daluege founded the Gausturm Berlin-Brandenburg, whose deputy Gausturmführer and first Standartenführer he became. Numerous previous Frontbann members joined the SA during these months, which subsequently assumed the position of the dominant force within the Berlin NSDAP.

Contrary to Hitler's course of legally conquering power, the majority of the SA continued to follow the Freikorps idea and the putschist line connected with it. Between the two wings of the party there were ongoing - sometimes violent - disputes, which only calmed down with the appointment of Joseph Goebbels as the new Berlin Gauleiter in autumn 1926. Geyer, a member of the NSDAP since May 17, 1926 ( membership number 36,801), was initially the leading representative of the SA wing and later came to terms with Goebbels. In March 1927, Geyer was involved in physical confrontations between SA members and members of the communist Red Front Fighters League at the Lichterfelde Ost train station . He was shot in the stomach, probably from firearms used by SA members. At that time Geyer held the functions of deputy Gausturmführer in the SA. Until 1932 he also had two SA standards in Berlin. In 1932 he switched to the staff of the Supreme SA Leadership (OSAF), to which he belonged until May 1933.

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists Geyer was in the Reichstag elections of March 1933 as a candidate of the Nazi Party for the constituency 3 (Potsdam II) in the Reichstag voted, which it then on until the end of Nazi rule belonged in May 1945 without interruption. As a member of parliament he voted, among other things, for the passage of the Enabling Act of March 1933. In the SA, Geyer, since March 1933 in the rank of Oberführer, led SA Brigade 27 (Brandenburg-West).

In October 1936 Geyer moved to Hanover as Deputy Police President , and from December 1937 to October 1942 he was the Police President of the Hanover Police Department . Before 1938 he became an honorary judge at the People's Court . Promoted to SA group leader in March 1942 and major general of the police in February 1943 , Geyer was regional leader of the technical emergency aid for Lower Silesia and Upper Silesia from 1942 to 1945 .

family

In 1905 Geyer married Rose Freymand's first marriage. The marriage was divorced in 1921. In 1922 he married Jenny Bartsch (born April 30, 1895).

estate

Various personal documents on Geyer have been preserved in the Federal Archives: Police records on him have been preserved in the holdings of the former Berlin Document Center (BDC) (DS microfilm G 111, photos 7 to 78).

Fonts

• Serious and cheerful from the war and pre-war times. Dortmund 1933.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Martin Schuster: The SA in the National Socialist "seizure of power" in Berlin and Brandenburg 1926–1934 . Dissertation, TU Berlin 2005, p. 22.
2. ^ Bernhard Sauer: Goebbels "Rabauken": On the history of the SA in Berlin-Brandenburg (PDF; 1.7 MB). In: Berlin in the past and present. Yearbook of the Landesarchiv Berlin 2006. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-7861-2537-2 , pp. 107–164, here p. 110.
3. ↑ Sauer, "Rabauken" (PDF; 1.7 MB) , pp. 111, 149; Schuster: SA , p. 38.
4. ↑ Schuster: SA , p. 124f; Sauer, »Rabauken« (PDF; 1.7 MB) , p. 112f.
5. ↑ Schuster: SA , p. 216.
6. ↑ First mentioned in the Reichstag Handbuch 1938

literature

• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Waldemar Geyer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Waldemar Geyer in the database of members of the Reichstag