Emil Holtz

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Emil Holtz , also Emil Holz (born May 25, 1873 in Oberschull ; † after 1930), was a German teacher, politician and Gauleiter of the Brandenburg Gau of the NSDAP .

The senior teacher joined the German Socialist Party (DSP) in Berlin in 1920 , a radical anti-Semitic group of the nationalist movement . In November of that year he became chairman of the DSP, a function which, given the loose connections between the local groups, was of little importance, but which enhanced the Berlin local group. The DSP, which despite its small number of members "became an important organization of actionist right-wing radicalism" in Berlin, joined the NSDAP local group in Munich in March 1922 . During the NSDAP ban, Holtz was active as a speaker for a social national association in Brandenburg an der Havel in September 1923 .

After the re-admission of the NSDAP, Holtz joined the party on July 29, 1925 ( member no. 11,651) and became deputy Gauleiter of Berlin-Brandenburg under Joseph Goebbels . On October 1, 1928, however, the Brandenburg Gau was separated and made an independent Gau; Holtz became its head.

Holtz resigned as Gauleiter at the end of September 1930, officially for health reasons. On September 30, 1930 he resigned from the NSDAP. He did not accept his mandate obtained in the Reichstag election on September 14, 1930 . The background to the resignation was a publicly known affair with a prostitute. According to contradicting information, he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in the fall of 1930 or March 1931 for a moral crime. Under Holtz, the organization of the NSDAP in Brandenburg had evidently hardly developed any further. Holtz's successor, Ernst Schlange, complained that he had found nothing in the Gauge office “other than debts and a very annoying contract”. In the NSDAP in the Gau Brandenburg there were considerable disputes over Holtz's replacement and his successor.

Nothing is known about his further life.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Martin Schuster: The SA in the National Socialist "seizure of power" in Berlin and Brandenburg 1926-1934. (pdf, 3.8 MB) Dissertation, Technical University Berlin 2005, p. 17.
  2. ↑ Schuster, SA , p. 27.
  3. ^ A b Karl Höffkes : Hitler's political generals. The Gauleiter of the 3rd Reich; a biographical reference work. Grabert-Verlag , Tübingen 1997, ISBN 3-87847-163-7 , p. 153 f.
  4. ↑ Reichstag Handbook 1930, 5th electoral period, p. 213 ( online )
  5. ↑ Schuster, SA , p. 55.
  6. ↑ Helmuth Klotz : Honor ranking for the Third Reich. AP correspondence, Berlin 1931, p. 18 ( online , PDF, 1.6 MB)
  7. ↑ Quoted from Kristina Hübner, Wolfgang Rose: The Brandenburg NS-Gau - An inventory. In: Jürgen John (Ed.): The NS-Gaue. Regional middle authorities in the centralized “leader state”. (= Series of the quarterly books for contemporary history , special issue) Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-58086-0 , S, 263-279, here p. 269.
personal data
SURNAME Holtz, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wood, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, politician and NSDAP Gauleiter
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH High school
DATE OF DEATH after 1930