August Goelzer

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August Gölzer (born August 2, 1906 in Deißlingen-Lauffen , † February 8, 1945 in Brno ) was a German SS-Hauptsturmführer and one of the commanders and accountants of the XXXIX. SS section in Brno. He died as a result of an assassination attempt on himself on February 7, 1945. After Reinhard Heydrich , he was the second highest SS man who was murdered in the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in an assassination attempt by the Czechoslovak resistance .

Education and career

From 1913 to 1916 Gölzer attended the Protestant elementary school in Deisslingen and from 1916 to 1921 the secondary school and grammar school in Rottweil. From 1921 to 1922 he attended the Protestant theological seminar in Maulbronn and from 1923 to 1925 he was a bank clerk apprentice in the Debibank, Schwenningen branch. In 1936/37 he attended a business school.

In 1928 Gölzer became a bank employee in Schwenningen am Neckar and took part in voluntary service in the same year. From 1928 to 1931 he was an accountant for Paul Gabbe in Sonnenburg, after which he was temporarily unemployed. In 1933/34 he was an accountant at the State Office in Reppen and from 1934 to 1936 accountant at the municipal credit cooperative in Drossen. From 1936 to 1939 he was on the staff of the SS main office in Berlin. After the German occupation of the rump Czech state , he was an officer of the XXXIX from 1939 to 1944. Section of the General SS in Prague and officer of the XXXIX in 1944/45. Section of the General SS in Brno. He was a member of the NSDAP , the SA and SS.

death

At the end of the Second World War , the cousins Alois Bauer and Vladimír Blažka committed an assassination attempt on Gölzer, a representative of the German protectorate, in Brno on February 7, 1945 . After the deputy Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich, on whom a fatal assassination attempt by Czechoslovak parachutists was carried out in May 1942 , Gölzer was the second highest SS officer who was targeted by the resistance against the German occupiers in the Protectorate and was killed. The two assassins were members of the Předvoj resistance group , one of several resistance groups in the protectorate .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b August Gölzer , short biography of the encyclopedia of the city of Brno, online at: encyklopedie.brna.cz / ...
  2. ↑ David Hertl: Případ zapomenutého atentátu (The Case of the Forgotten Assassination), contribution by the Český rozhlas broadcaster of March 4, 2017, online at: plus.rozhlas.cz / ...
  3. ↑ Till Janzer: Resistance in the Protectorate: the unknown assassination attempt in Brno , article by Radio Praha from April 22, 2017, online at: radio.cz / ...
  4. ↑ Atentát na Augusta Gölzera v Brně , material from the Encyclopedia of the City of Brno, online at: encyklopedie.brna.cz / ...
  5. ↑ Jiří Skoupý: Případ zapomenutého atentátu (The Case of the Forgotten Assassination), in: II. Světová , Extra Publishing, Prague 2016, 2016/4, pp. 22-25, ISSN 1805-0298, quoted. according to material from the Brno City Encyclopedia, online at (cache): encyklopedie.brna.cz / ...
personal data
SURNAME Goelzer, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS officer
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd August 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Deißlingen
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1945
Place of death Brno