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August Wilhelm Wetter (born September 25, 1890 in the forester's lodge Giebelhardt at Wissen an der Sieg ; † August 22, 1970 in Siegen ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ), SA leader and police president of Koblenz .

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After attending elementary and agricultural school, the forester's son completed a forestry apprenticeship from 1906 to 1909 and worked in his profession. Later he joined the Uhlan Regiment 5 as a volunteer, with which he continuously participated in the First World War . After the end of the war he passed the forestry exam in 1921 and found employment in the princely Hatsfeld district of Buchen until 1931, most recently as a district forester.

In April 1930 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 229.616), was the local group leader of the party in knowledge and from June 1930 to April 1933 district leader of Altenkirchen . He also joined the SA, in which he reached the rank of SA Brigade Leader on July 1, 1933. From mid-September 1933 to mid-July 1935 he headed the SA Brigade 52 in Koblenz .

From 1932 to autumn 1933, Wetter was a member of the Prussian state parliament . He then sat from November 1933 to May 1938 as a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for constituency 21 (Koblenz-Trier) . Although he was nominated for the Reichstag election on April 10, 1938, he did not make it among the thirteen deputies sent by the constituency. In his place was Günther Gräntz selected.

After the republican-minded Ernst Biesten was dismissed , August Wetter was appointed Koblenz Police President in June 1933, after having previously worked as a provisional officer from mid-April 1933. He held this office until May 8, 1945. In 1937 he was represented by Government Councilor Bruno Ohnesorge , as Gauleiter Gustav Simon had temporarily assigned Wetter for other tasks.

Wetter was appointed Gaujägermeister for the Rhineland-South hunting district in 1935. From 1936 to the beginning of 1943 he was Gauwalter in the Reichsbund Deutscher Beamten (RDB) and headed the Gauamt for civil servants in Gau Koblenz-Trier.

During the Second World War , from August 1940 to September 1941, he was also police administrator for Luxembourg City , where he was subordinate to the head of civil administration.

At the end of the war, Wetter was captured by the US Army in the Sudetenland on May 6, 1945 and was then interned in Auerbach, Grafenwöhr, Dachau and Luxembourg until the end of June 1948. His release followed after the proceedings against him at the War Crimes Court in Luxembourg were closed. He was imprisoned again immediately afterwards and was sentenced by a French military court to a two-year prison term for war crimes in Bad Ems , which he served until the beginning of July 1950. A few days earlier he had been denazified as an "incriminated person" after a trial in Koblenz .

Wetter then worked again as a forester, most recently as a chief forester in Buchen near Wissen.

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 , p. 726.
  • Emil Baldus: History of the Koblenz Police Directorate from 1804 - 1960 , Boppard 1961

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The German Reichstag, electoral period after d. Jan. 30, 1933, vol .: 1938, Berlin, 1938. p. 80
  2. ↑ ibid., P. 139
  3. ↑ Emil Baldus; History of the Koblenz Police Department from 1804 - 1960, Boppard 1961. p. 61
personal data
SURNAME Weather, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wetter, August Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR, MdL
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Forsthaus Giebelhardt at Wissen an der Sieg
DATE OF DEATH 22nd August 1970
Place of death Wins