Christian Weber (politician, 1883)

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Christian Weber, 1934

Christian Weber (* 25. August 1883 in Polsingen ; † 11. May 1945 on the Swabian Alb ) was a Reichswehr sergeant of the First World War, Nazi - functionary , SS brigade leader and from 1936 MdR .

Life

After seven years of attending elementary and advanced training school from 1889 to 1897, Weber, who came from a poor background, worked as a young servant on the Polsingen estate until October 1901. After serving in the military from October 5, 1901 to September 28, 1904 with the squadron "Jäger auf Pferde" in the 1st Chevaulegers Regiment in Nuremberg , he first worked as a groom in the Munich inn "Blauer Bock", in 1906 groom in Neumarkt and in 1913 groom and rider at the horse dealership Göbl in Munich.

Drafted at the beginning of the First World War on August 6, 1914, he served in the Bavarian heavy artillery on the Western Front throughout the course of the war . On January 3, 1919, he was discharged from the army with the rank of sergeant . With the money he saved, Weber was able to set up his own horse rental business from 1919, which he gave up again in 1921; from 1925 he ran his own gas station in Munich. 1919–1922 he was a member of the Epp and Oberland Freikorps .

Weber met Adolf Hitler and Dietrich Eckart as early as 1920 , who encouraged him to join the NSDAP, which he did in August 1921. From 1921 to 1923 Weber acted as Hitler's security companion, who took Weber's duke and appointed him leader of the SA motor squadron and head of the party leadership's fleet in autumn 1921. From May to November 1923 Weber was head of the transport department in the staff of the SA high command and a member of the so-called Adolf Hitler raid .

After the re-establishment of the party in February 1925, Weber entered Munich local politics. In 1926 he became a member of the Munich City Council , to which he was a member until October 1, 1935, and in 1931 (until 1945) a member of the Upper Bavarian District Council (from 1937 District Association of Upper Bavaria), of which Hitler appointed him President in March 1933. In addition, he was president of the Munich district assembly from 1933, 1933–1935 chairman of the NSDAP city council faction and from 1937 special commissioner for economic affairs of the “ capital of the movement ” Munich in the now harmonized city ​​administration of Munich. From October 1, 1935 until the end of the war, he was councilor and council president of the movement's capital. a. as head of the “ Office for the 8./9. November 1923 "of the NSDAP, President of the racing club Munich-Riem , President of the" Economic Association of German Racing Stable Owners and Thoroughbred Breeders ", President of the" Board of Trustees for the Brown Ribbon of Germany ", President of the International Congress for Thoroughbred Breeding and Horse Racing of the European Countries (from 16. July 1936), President of the stud farms Isarland , member of the Advisory Board of the German postal , member of the Empire hunt Council , President of the German hunting Museum , member of the Reich transport Council , board member of the German community tags , first Chairman of the association exhibition Park Munich and member of the Supervisory Board of Munich Kammerspiele .

As early as May 4, 1933, Weber joined the General SS as SS-Sturmbannführer . On March 1, 1934, he was promoted to SS-Standartenführer and on April 1, 1934, was appointed "SS-Rangführer" in the SS Upper Section South in Munich. During the massacre of June 30, 1934 , Weber was part of Hitler's entourage, who accompanied him on the trip to Bad Wiessee and helped arrest the SA officials. On July 4, 1934 he was promoted to SS-Oberführer , and on July 16, 1936 to SS-Brigadführer (with a patent from July 26, 1936). On November 1, 1937, Heinrich Himmler appointed him commander of the SS main riding school in Munich and “Inspector of the SS riding schools” on the staff of the SS main office ; Weber was thus responsible for the interests of the Reiter-SS , a task that he shared with the "Inspection of the SS Rider " in the SS main office.

Weber ran a brothel in Munich's Senefelderstrasse , which Bernhard Stempfle considered unworthy of an " old fighter " and therefore ridiculed him as a "Senefeld Marshal". As part of the " Röhm Putsch " in 1934, Weber is said to have initiated the murder of Stempfle by placing Stempfle on the death list of the Munich firing squads without Hitler's authority.

During the November pogroms in 1938 , SS men in civilian clothes under Weber's direction carried out an arson attack on Planegg Castle, which Rudolf von Hirsch owned .

Weber shamelessly used his power in the NSDAP for his own benefit. He was one of the most corrupt Nazis . Extremely enterprising and without hesitation in his means, he almost always prevailed, although his rowdy demeanor in Munich made him many enemies, even in party circles. Even the party founder Anton Drexler complained in 1923 about the boncentre in the party and meant Weber. Party treasurer Franz Xaver Schwarz put himself across in 1939 when Weber wanted to enrich himself with the " Aryanization " of Jewish real estate.

Weber showed his operetta-like side in the horse race he created for the Brown Ribbon of Germany when he had barely dressed actresses create “ living images ” of more or less mythological content on the “ Night of the Amazons ” in the Nymphenburg Palace Park . Himmler collected documents from the numerous party court proceedings against Weber, but did not dare to proceed against him in any way despite the possibilities presented.

Arrest and death

When Weber was living in the town hall on Marienplatz because of the destruction of his official apartment in the final days of the Second World War , he was arrested by the " Bavarian Freedom Campaign " and taken to Erding. After his release, he demanded the death sentence for the town hall inspector Hans Scharrer , who had opened the gate to the town hall for the raiding party of the freedom campaign, and then had him shot without questioning. On May 1, 1945 Weber was arrested by the United States Army in Buchhof near Starnberg and initially brought to Ulm . When he was about to be transferred from there to Heilbronn for further interrogations , the trailer of the army truck, on whose open loading area the prisoners were being transported, overturned and Weber was fatally injured. He was buried near Heilbronn.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Martin: Aspects of the political biography of a local Nazi functionary. The Christian Weber case . In: "Journal for Bavarian State History" 57, 1994, p. 437ff.
  2. ^ Andreas Dornheim: Röhms Mann fürs Ausland , 1998, p. 65 f.
  3. ↑ Eugene K. Bird: Stand up . In: Der Spiegel . No. 17 , 1974 ( online - part 7. Rudolf Hess in the Spandau war criminals prison).
  4. ↑ The fact that he is said to have participated in a leading role in the Hitler putsch in 1923 is based on a confusion with Friedrich Weber .
  5. ^ Rainer Orth: The official seat of the opposition. Politics and state restructuring plans in the office of the Deputy Chancellor in the years 1933–1934 . Böhlau: Cologne a. a. 2016, ISBN 978-3-412-50555-4 , p. 927 ( excerpt from Google Books , accessed March 19, 2020)
  6. ↑ Bruno Brehm: The twelve years of the Reich , 1963, p. 71.
  7. ^ Wilhelm Hoegner : The political radicalism in Germany, 1919-1933 . 1966, p. 236. “Angry with Weber”.
  8. ^ Frank Bajohr : Parvenus and Profiteurs. Corruption in the Nazi era , Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-10-004812-1 , p. 59.
  9. ^ Thomas Martin: The case of Christian Weber . In: »ZBLG« 57, p. 479 ( Digitale-sammlungen.de )
  10. ↑ I like Dös Viech . In: Der Spiegel . No. 8 , 1951, pp. 23 ff . ( online ).

literature

  • Thomas von Berg: Corruption and Enrichment. Political biography of the Munich NSDAP chairman Christian Weber (1883-1945) , M-Press, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-89975-453-7 .
  • Doris Fuchsberger: Night of the Amazons: A Munich series of festivities between Nazi propaganda and tourism attraction , Allitera Verlag Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-86906-855-8 .
  • Thomas Martin: Aspects of the political biography of a local Nazi functionary. The Christian Weber case. In: Zeitschrift für Bayerische Landesgeschichte 57, 1994, pp. 435–484 ( online ).
  • Markus Schiefer: From the “Blauer Bock” to the residence - Christian Weber. In: Marita Krauss: Right careers in Munich. From the Weimar period to the post-war years. Volk, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-937200-53-8 .).
  • 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 .
  • Hermann Weiß (Ed.): Biographical Lexicon for the Third Reich . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-10-091052-4 . , P. 478 f.
  • Christian Weber , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 37/1947 from September 1, 1947, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Fictional:

  • * Herbert Rosendorfer : The Night of the Amazons. Novel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1989. Later paperback dtv, Munich 1992. (describes Weber's career in a novel, but based on police and court files from Bavarian archives)

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personal data
SURNAME Weber, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR, SS-Brigadführer, Munich councilor
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Pole singing
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1945
Place of death Swabian Alb