Alexander Glaser

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Alexander Glaser (born July 1, 1884 in Munich ; † July 5, 1934 there ) was a German lawyer and politician ( DVP , later Völkischer Block ). Glaser was best known as a member of the Bavarian State Parliament (1920-28) and one of those killed in the so-called Röhm Putsch of 1934.

Alexander Glaser

Live and act

After graduating from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1903 , Glaser studied law at the University of Erlangen . Parallel to his studies, he worked for MAN in Nuremberg from 1909 : from 1911 he was also a member of the MAN advisory board. In 1913 he received his doctorate with a thesis on importance of the nationality of the bourgeois legal rules of private international law to Dr. jur.

Glaser also married around 1913: The marriage resulted in a son, Alexander Glaser junior, who later became a doctor. After his wife emigrated to South America in 1918, Glaser had been living with the doctor Gertrude Wenter (born August 20, 1887) since 1920.

As a reserve officer, Glaser took part in the First World War.

Weimar Republic and the Nazi era

After the end of the First World War, Glaser went into politics: in 1920 he was elected as a candidate for the German People's Party (DVP) in the Bavarian state parliament. In the new election in 1924 he gave up his mandate for the DVP and instead stood up as a candidate for the Völkischer Block in Bavaria , which he founded on January 6th with Rudolf von Xylander and Rudolf Buttmann and for which he was until 1928 - at times as a Group leader - sat in the Bavarian parliament.

Politically, Glaser was well connected: He had good relations with the patriotic associations and with Russian emigrant circles in Munich. He was also close to Gregor Strasser, the long-standing organization leader of the NSDAP . Together with Strasser and Buttmann, he also visited Hitler on July 5, 1924 at the Landsberg Fortress, whom he must have met on this occasion. According to Heinrich Egner, the purpose was probably "to coordinate the procedure of the parliamentary group with him [Hitler]". Probably at Strasser's instigation, he became a member of the NSDAP, in whose political organization he briefly assumed a leading role: According to an announcement by the Reich leadership of the NSDAP on July 7, 1932, Strasser, then head of the political organization of the NSDAP (thus de facto general secretary of the party) , Glaser "with immediate effect" to his head of staff.

In addition to his work in parliament, Glaser pursued his learned profession as a lawyer. He also wrote articles for various newspapers, including for the Völkischer Beobachter .

In the spring of 1934, Glaser sued Max Amann , the director of the Munich Eher Verlag , the NSDAP 's publishing house , on behalf of the publisher Josef Huber from Dießen am Ammersee . The subject of the proceedings, which Huber and Glaser won, was a book published by Eher-Verlag. In addition, Glaser was involved in a lawsuit against a senior member of the Munich SD headquarters.

In March 1934, Glaser was arrested for the first time on the instigation of Reinhard Heydrich , but had to be released again against Heydrich's will.

On the evening of June 30, 1934, Glaser was struck down in front of his apartment on Amalienstraße in Munich by several shots from behind in the head. He died from his injuries a few days later, on July 5, 1934, in Schwabing Hospital. The attack on Glaser took place in the slipstream of the political cleansing action of the early summer of 1934, which became known under the propaganda designation " Röhm Putsch ". In the course of this action, Hitler primarily left his actual or supposed opponents in his own ranks, especially in the Sturmabteilung (SA), remove. Glaser - politically a completely harmless figure at the time - was apparently killed on a fitting occasion. In the literature, the motive for the crime is assumed to be that Glazer's murder was an act of revenge because of his above-mentioned involvement in the trials against Amann and / or the SD leaders. But it is also conceivable that Glaser was targeted by the perpetrators of the series of murders because of his relationship with Gregor Strasser, who was murdered on the same day.

Archival material

A lawyer personal file on Glaser is available in the main state archive in Munich (MJU 20774).

Fonts

  • The importance of citizenship according to the civil law norms of international private law with special consideration of the Introductory Act to the Civil Code. Erlangen 1913 (dissertation).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer Orth: Der SD-Mann Johannes Schmidt, p. 190.
  2. ^ Annual report from the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich. ZDB -ID 12448436 , 1902/03.
  3. ^ Robert Probst: Völkischer Block in Bayern (VBl), 1924/25. In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria . November 25, 2013, accessed February 25, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Heinrich Egner: “The top of the faction agreed with Hitler. Legal aftermath for Gregor Straßer's participation in the Hitler putsch ends lightly ”, in: Landsberger Zeitung of March 16, 2005.
  5. ↑ Bundesarchiv Lichterfelde, party correspondence Film D 64 "Glanz, Peter - Glaser, Gerhard", image 1252.
  6. ^ Konrad Heiden: Adolf Hitler. The age of irresponsibility. A biography , 1936, p. 455.
  7. ↑ Lothar Gruchmann: Justice in the Third Reich 1933-1940 , p. 440.
personal data
SURNAME Glaser, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (DVP, later Völkischer Block)
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH July 5, 1934
Place of death Munich