Eduard Quintenz (District Administrator)

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Eduard Quintenz (born January 12, 1888 in Schwäbisch Gmünd ; † July 12, 1977 in Tuttlingen ) was a Württemberg politician (1929–1933 WBP / DNVP , 1933–1945 NSDAP ). From 1936 to 1938 he was district administrator of the Oberndorf district and from 1938 to 1946 district administrator of the Tuttlingen district .

Life

Eduard Quintenz was the son of the Württemberg governor Eduard Quintenz . He studied at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , where he a member of the CV connection Guestfalia was. From 1923 he worked as a police director in Friedrichshafen , where he maintained close contacts with the Secret State Police after the transfer of power to the National Socialists . At the same time, he resisted interventions by the NSDAP district leader Hans Seibold in his area of ​​responsibility. In 1936 the dispute between Quintenz and Seibold escalated, culminating in a party expulsion process against Quintenz. Quintenz was expelled from the party in February 1936, but the expulsion from the party was withdrawn in March of the same year and turned into a warning. The background to the dispute was that Quintenz had previously opened a private letter. Following the party exclusion process, Quintenz was transferred to Oberndorf am Neckar , where he was district administrator until 1938. In 1938 he became district administrator of the Tuttlingen district.

At the beginning of 1945 Quintenz agreed with the Tuttlingen gendarmerie and police not to defend Tuttlingen from the advancing French armed forces and not to destroy the city's infrastructure under any circumstances. Quintenz thus opposed the resolutions of the NSDAP district leadership, which Tuttlingen wanted to defend with Volkssturm units. In April 1945 Quintenz stayed in the city, but the NSDAP district leadership fled. Quintenz then gave the order to hoist a white flag on the Honberg and on the parish church and thus prepare the surrender of the city. Shortly afterwards, however, the white flags were withdrawn again by Wehrmacht soldiers . When the military district commander Merck wanted to blow up the Tuttlingen bridge on the Tuttlingen – Inzigkofen railway line and another bridge over the Danube , Quintenz intervened unsuccessfully to prevent it from being blown up. In contrast, Quintenz was able to successfully prevent the Poststeg and the Schlachthaussteg from being blown up in cooperation with the police, parts of the military and the citizens. On April 21, 1945, Tuttlingen was liberated by French units and became part of the French occupation zone . Quintenz handed the city over to the French on Tuttlingen's market square.

Quintenz was the only district administrator in southern Württemberg to keep his office. Jean Lucien Estrade, the district commissioner of the French military government, justified this step later with the fact that he had a lot of administrative experience and lacked a qualified but unencumbered alternative to Quintenz. On March 25, 1946, however, he was deposed as district administrator. He was succeeded by Erich Shariry . Estrade assessed Quintenz's work during the occupation as follows: Quintenz had " undermined, if not even sabotaged, the political cleansing of the district [...] He did not hesitate to provide false testimony in order to raise more than dubious elements in office both in the district administration and in the mayor's offices "All in all," says Estrade, "the 'Quintenz period' can be characterized by the bad will of the district administrator, by an almost complete failure in rebuilding the German administration".

After his time as district administrator, Quintenz worked for the state administration of Württemberg-Hohenzollern .

literature

  • Jean Lucien Estrade: Tuttlingen April 1945 - September 1949: The French military government in Tuttlingen . Tuttlingen n.d., pp. 38-42.
  • Michaela Häffner: Post-war period in southern Württemberg: the city of Friedrichshafen and the district of Tettnang in the forties and fifties. Munich 1999, p. 106.
  • Wolfgang Kramer: The end of the war in 1945 . In: City of Tuttlingen (Ed.): National Socialism in Tuttlingen (special edition of the Tuttlinger Heimatblätter). Tuttlingen 1986, pp. 207-212.
  • Wolfram Angerbauer (Red.): The heads of the upper offices, district offices and district offices in Baden-Württemberg from 1810 to 1972 . Published by the working group of the district archives at the Baden-Württemberg district assembly. Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8062-1213-9 , pp. 448 .

Footnotes

  1. ^ Frank Raberg : Seibold, (Johannes) Hans. In: Bernd Ottnad, Fred Ludwig Sepaintner (Hrsg.): Baden-Württembergische Biographien. Volume 3. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-17-017332-4 , pp. 382-384, here p. 383.
  2. ^ Jean Lucien Estrade: Tuttlingen April 1945 - September 1949: The French military government in Tuttlingen . Tuttlingen n.d., p. 39.
  3. ^ Jean Lucien Estrade: Tuttlingen April 1945 - September 1949: The French military government in Tuttlingen . Tuttlingen n.d., p. 42.
personal data
SURNAME Quintenz, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DNVP, NSDAP)
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwäbisch Gmünd
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1977
Place of death Tuttlingen