Edgar Stelzner

Edgar Stelzner (born August 13, 1892 in Nuremberg ; † August 3, 1959 in Würzburg ) was a German lawyer, student functionary and First Mayor of Neustadt bei Coburg .

Life

Stelzner was the son of a fine gold beater and later a journalist. After graduating from high school , he studied law at the Universities of Erlangen and Munich . In the winter semester of 1912/13 he joined the Bubenreuth fraternity in Erlangen. He was a member of the Wandervogel and took part in the 1913 Free German Conference on the Hohe Meissner . In 1918 he joined the Fatherland Party , a year later the Freikorps Epp . In 1919 he took part in the suppression of the Munich Soviet Republic . He was investigated for participating in the Kapp Putsch in 1920, but there was no trial. In 1923 he joined the Oberland federal government and was in its management until 1929. At the same time, from 1924 on he was a member of the Völkischer Block , a successor organization to the NSDAP , banned after the Hitler-Ludendorff putsch , which referred to Hitler and saw itself as a "mortal enemy of the parliamentary system of sliders" that they wanted to "destroy from within". Stelzner was elected to the Bavarian state parliament, to which he was a member from 1924 to 1928. In 1927 he transferred to the Christian Social People's Service , which he left again in 1933 in order to join the NSDAP the following year, after he had already become a member of the SA in 1933 when the ban on hiring National Socialists in the public service had been made Had the rank of storm leader.

From 1919 to 1920 he was chairman of the Erlangen student body and a representative of the German student body in the Freikorps Epp . He played a leading role in the development of the German student body and was co-founder and chairman of the völkischer Hochschulring Deutscher Art . In 1920, completing his law studies, he was chairman of the German student body from 1920 to 1921. For many years he was in the management of the Deutsche Burschenschaft (DB), "which he pointed out above all to their 'folk task'".

From 1921 to 1928 he was the editor of the DB organ, the Burschenschaftlichen Blätter (BBl). As such, he declared himself ready in June 1923 upon request to “publish essays on the racial question in the BBl”. At the same time, he rejected a report on a fraternity foundation festival "due to lack of space". Immediately after the Hitler-Ludendorff putsch in November 1923, he supported the putschists in a contribution. In 1924 he pointed out that the völkisch movement had the task of “preparing with the utmost strength” for the later period of the uprising. She is "the only way to rescue". As a fraternity he raised an elite claim, saw in the corporate students "the best selection", a "nobility of the people". He rejected the Weimar Constitution because it “does not show what is necessary for the Third Reich of Germany in more than one respect ”. He also declared that he was one of those fraternity members who "want a complete isolation of our Germanness from Judaism".

From 1925 he belonged to a "political shock troop" conceived working committee of the center for youth border country work of the annexionist German protection association for border and foreign Germans .

From 1925 Stelzner was a lawyer in the civil service, from 1926 to 1929 third public prosecutor, then district judge, 1934 regional judge and from 1937 regional court director as well as manager of the NS-Rechtswahrerbund (NSRWB). In the meantime he was the first mayor of Neustadt bei Coburg (1929 to 1934). After military service and the end of National Socialism, the military government removed him from civil service. He was now working for lawyers, later in-house counsel in a dairy association.

Fonts

Of Death and Life: Soldier Poems, 1918.
Reminder sheet for the 110th Wartburg Festival of the German Burschenschaft, 1927.

literature

Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 511-513.

Web links

Edgar Stelzner in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
Literature by and about Edgar Stelzner in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Ernst Höhne: The Bubenreuther. History of a German fraternity. II., Erlangen 1936, p. 332.
↑ On the Völkischer Block see Robert Probst: Völkischer Block in Bayern (VBl), 1924/25 . In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria .
↑ ^a ^b Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 511-513, here: p. 512
↑ Heike Ströle-Bühler , Student Antisemitism in the Weimar Republic. An analysis of the Burschenschaftliche Blätter 18918 to 1933, Frankfurt a. M. et old. 1991, p. 167.
^ Hans-Christian Brandenburg, The story of the HJ: ways and wrong ways of a generation, Cologne 1968, p. 105.
↑ Heike Ströle-Bühler, Student Antisemitism in the Weimar Republic. An analysis of the Burschenschaftliche Blätter 1918 to 1933, Frankfurt / M. et old. 1991, p. 72.
↑ So 1921 in the Burschenschaftliche Blätter, according to: Hans Peter Bleuel / Ernst Klinnert, German students on the way to the Third Reich. Ideologies - programs - actions. 1918–1935, Gütersloh 1967, p. 85.
↑ So 1926 in the Burschenschaftliche Blätter, according to: Hans Peter Bleuel / Ernst Klinnert, German students on the way to the Third Reich. Ideologies - programs - actions. 1918–1935, Gütersloh 1967, p. 85.
↑ Heike Ströle-Bühler, Student Antisemitism in the Weimar Republic. An analysis of the Burschenschaftliche Blätter 18918 to 1933, Frankfurt a. M. et old. 1991, p. 86.
↑ Thomas Müller, Imagined West. The concept of the »German West Area« in the national discourse between Political Romanticism and National Socialism Histoire, Volume 8, Bielefeld 2009, p. 257.
^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 511-513.

personal data
SURNAME	Stelzner, Edgar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German student functionary and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 13, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH	3rd August 1959
Place of death	Wurzburg

[1] Ernst Höhne: The Bubenreuther. History of a German fraternity. II., Erlangen 1936, p. 332.

[2] On the Völkischer Block see Robert Probst: Völkischer Block in Bayern (VBl), 1924/25 . In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria .

[:0-3] Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 511-513, here: p. 512

[4] Heike Ströle-Bühler , Student Antisemitism in the Weimar Republic. An analysis of the Burschenschaftliche Blätter 18918 to 1933, Frankfurt a. M. et old. 1991, p. 167.

[5] Hans-Christian Brandenburg, The story of the HJ: ways and wrong ways of a generation, Cologne 1968, p. 105.

[6] Heike Ströle-Bühler, Student Antisemitism in the Weimar Republic. An analysis of the Burschenschaftliche Blätter 1918 to 1933, Frankfurt / M. et old. 1991, p. 72.

[7] So 1921 in the Burschenschaftliche Blätter, according to: Hans Peter Bleuel / Ernst Klinnert, German students on the way to the Third Reich. Ideologies - programs - actions. 1918–1935, Gütersloh 1967, p. 85.

[8] So 1926 in the Burschenschaftliche Blätter, according to: Hans Peter Bleuel / Ernst Klinnert, German students on the way to the Third Reich. Ideologies - programs - actions. 1918–1935, Gütersloh 1967, p. 85.

[9] Heike Ströle-Bühler, Student Antisemitism in the Weimar Republic. An analysis of the Burschenschaftliche Blätter 18918 to 1933, Frankfurt a. M. et old. 1991, p. 86.

[10] Thomas Müller, Imagined West. The concept of the »German West Area« in the national discourse between Political Romanticism and National Socialism Histoire, Volume 8, Bielefeld 2009, p. 257.

[11] Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 511-513.