Claus Selzner

Nikolaus (called Claus or Klaus) Selzner (born February 20, 1899 in Groß-Moyeuvre , Diedenhofen district ; † June 21, 1944 near Dnjepropetrowsk or in Kaiserslautern ) was a German SS leader and general commissioner of Dnjepropetrowsk in the Reichskommissariat Ukraine .

Life

After completing an apprenticeship as a locksmith, the 15-year-old Selzner became an orderly in Metz in 1915 . In the further course of the First World War he was used as a machine gunner and aircraft fitter. From 1919 he worked in Bavaria as a locksmith and technician. There he came into contact with the NSDAP before he moved from Ansbach to Worms in 1924 .

Since the re-admission of the NSDAP in 1925, Selzner belonged to the party ( membership number 24.137) and to the SA he built up in Worms . Probably from February 1926 to June 1928 he was the local group leader of the NSDAP in Worms, where he also founded the first Hitler Youth group in the same year . In 1927 Selzner was appointed district leader of the NSDAP for the Worms district; The main task was to set up local groups in rural southern Rheinhessen . In August 1927 he moved to the city council of Worms.

After a dispute over the newspaper Die Faust, which had been published by Selzner since April 1927, and the structure of the party in Rheinhessen , he was expelled from the NSDAP in February 1928. After violent protests by the local group in Worms, the exclusion was lifted in March 1928 by Adolf Hitler against the will of the Gauleitung for Hessen-Darmstadt, Selzner was reinstated in his party offices as local group leader and district leader.

In 1929 he was adjutant of the SA standard in Darmstadt . After internal party conflicts, he moved to Ludwigshafen am Rhein in 1930 , where he became local group and district leader and founded a Nazi operating cell at BASF (then IG Farben) .

In 1932 he became a member of the Reichstag , in 1934 deputy head of the NS factory cell organization (NSBO), head of the organization office of the German Labor Front (DAF) and the NS community Kraft durch Freude (KdF). In the DAF he was Reichsamtsleiter in the Office of the Ordensburgen . Since 1936 he was a member of the SS (SS number 277,988). In 1938 he played a key role in building the German Labor Front in the Reichsgau Sudetenland .

On December 2, 1936 he was appointed SS-Oberführer and in 1941 the chief commanding officer in the NSDAP's main training office.

On September 1, 1941, he was appointed General Commissioner of Dnepropetrovsk and in this capacity was also responsible for the murder of the Jewish population in the Dnepropetrovsk General District. According to Soviet sources, he was directly responsible for the murder of 17,000 Jews in late 1941 near the Jewish cemetery in Dnepropetrovsk. In April 1942 he was promoted to SS-Brigadführer .

He allegedly died of fish poisoning on June 21, 1944 .

After the end of the war, all of Selzner's writings in the Soviet occupation zone were placed on the list of literature to be segregated .

literature

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 , p. 613-614 .
Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).
Andreas Zellhuber: "Our administration is driving a catastrophe ...". The Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories and German occupation in the Soviet Union 1941–1945. Vögel, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-89650-213-1 .
Franz Maier: Biographical organization manual of the NSDAP and its structures in the area of today's state of Rhineland-Palatinate (= publications of the commission of the state parliament for the history of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Volume 28). v. Hase & Koehler, Mainz / Zarrentin 2007, ISBN 978-3-7758-1407-2 ; 2nd, (additional) edition. Ibid 2009, ISBN 978-3-7758-1408-9 .

Web links

Commons : Claus Selzner - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Claus Selzner in the catalog of the German National Library
Claus Selzner in the database of members of the Reichstag
Newspaper article about Claus Selzner in the press kit for the 20th century of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

↑ According to Franz Maier: Biographical organization manual of the NSDAP and its structures in the area of today's state of Rhineland-Palatinate . v. Hase & Koehler, Mainz 2007, p. 434. Maier points out that Dnjepropetrowsk had to be evacuated by the Wehrmacht as early as October 1943.
^ ^A ^b ^c Markus Würz: Fighting time under French bayonets. The NSDAP in Rheinhessen in the Weimar Republic. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-515-10288-9 , passim , in particular pp. 134-146.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 567.
↑ Hans Fenske : The rise of the Palatinate NSDAP to the mass movement 1928-1933. In: Gerhard Nestler, Stefan Schaupp, Hannes Ziegler (ed.): From the failure of democracy. The Palatinate at the end of the Weimar Republic. Braun, Karlsruhe 2010, ISBN 978-3-7650-8541-3 , pp. 199–228, here: p. 204.
↑ German Biographical Archive . New series up to the middle of the 20th century. KG Saur, Munich 1988, pp. 222–224.
^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945. 2nd, updated edition. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 , p. 578: Reference to file number ZST 114 AR-Z 67/67.
^ Letter S. In: List of the literature to be sorted out. Published by the German Administration for Public Education in the Soviet Occupation Zone. Preliminary edition as of April 1, 1946. Zentralverlag, Berlin 1946, pp. 347–414 ( polunbi.de [accessed on July 30, 2019, transcript letter S; no. 11040]).

personal data
SURNAME	Selzner, Claus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Selzner, Nikolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (NSDAP), MdR, General Commissioner of Dnepropetrovsk
DATE OF BIRTH	February 20, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Moyeuvre-Grande
DATE OF DEATH	June 21, 1944
Place of death	Dnepropetrovsk

[1] According to Franz Maier: Biographical organization manual of the NSDAP and its structures in the area of today's state of Rhineland-Palatinate . v. Hase & Koehler, Mainz 2007, p. 434. Maier points out that Dnjepropetrowsk had to be evacuated by the Wehrmacht as early as October 1943.

[Würz-2] A ^b ^c Markus Würz: Fighting time under French bayonets. The NSDAP in Rheinhessen in the Weimar Republic. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-515-10288-9 , passim , in particular pp. 134-146.

[Klee567-3] Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 567.

[4] Hans Fenske : The rise of the Palatinate NSDAP to the mass movement 1928-1933. In: Gerhard Nestler, Stefan Schaupp, Hannes Ziegler (ed.): From the failure of democracy. The Palatinate at the end of the Weimar Republic. Braun, Karlsruhe 2010, ISBN 978-3-7650-8541-3 , pp. 199–228, here: p. 204.

[5] German Biographical Archive . New series up to the middle of the 20th century. KG Saur, Munich 1988, pp. 222–224.

[6] Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945. 2nd, updated edition. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 , p. 578: Reference to file number ZST 114 AR-Z 67/67.

[7] Letter S. In: List of the literature to be sorted out. Published by the German Administration for Public Education in the Soviet Occupation Zone. Preliminary edition as of April 1, 1946. Zentralverlag, Berlin 1946, pp. 347–414 ( polunbi.de [accessed on July 30, 2019, transcript letter S; no. 11040]).