Emil Stürtz

Emil Stürtz

Erich Emil Arthur Hermann Stürtz (born November 15, 1892 in Wieps , East Prussia ; missing since April 21, 1945) was a German Nazi functionary, including Gauleiter of the NSDAP , member of the Reichstag and NSKK Obergruppenführer .

Life

After attending elementary school and the Bessel secondary school in Königsberg , he became a seaman and in August 1914 signed up for the Imperial Navy as a one-year volunteer . On board the large cruiser SMS Seydlitz and later with the submarine weapon, he took part in the First World War , including the Battle of the Skagerrak . In the spring of 1918, due to a serious illness, he was disabled, a war invalid and a recipient of a war pension. He then worked in a repair shop and was a driver.

In December 1925, he joined the NSDAP ( membership no. 26.929) and in 1925/26 initially worked as a press and propaganda manager for the Hattingen branch . In 1926 he became district leader of the NSDAP in Dortmund , 1929/30 district leader in Siegerland . Stürtz rose to the parliamentary group chairman of the Westphalian Provincial Parliament . Since September 1930 he was a member of the Reichstag for constituency 18 (Westphalia-South). In 1933 he became a Prussian State Councilor .

In mid-June 1930 he was Gau managing director and from October of the same year also deputy Gau leader in Gau Westfalen-Süd ; he also became managing director of the NS newspaper Westfalenwacht. On August 7, 1936, he was appointed as the successor to Wilhelm Kube as Gauleiter in Gau Kurmark , which was renamed Gau Mark Brandenburg in 1940. In September 1936 he was appointed provisional high president of the province of Brandenburg and the province of Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia , which was followed in 1937 by the appointment of high president of the province of Brandenburg. On September 1, 1939, he was appointed Reich Defense Commissioner (RVK) for Military District III. After the reorganization of the Reich defense districts, Stürtz was appointed RVK for the Gau Kurmark on November 16, 1942. In addition, he was from the middle of November 1940 district housing commissioner and from April 1942 the agent of the general representative for work. Stürtz, who at the end of January 1939 rose to the position of Obergruppenführer at the NSKK , led the Volkssturm in his area of ​​responsibility from the end of September 1944 .

Since Stürtz had been missing in the Reich capital Berlin since April 21, 1945, a decision of the Düsseldorf District Court of August 24, 1957 pronounced a death declaration and set the date of death to December 31, 1945. It was assumed that Emil Stürtz was arrested and arrested by Soviet troops in April 1945 and later died in detention. Emil Stürtz's wife had her place of residence in Düsseldorf after 1945 and only after her husband had been missing for ten years or after looking for him in vain for a decade - also among the late returnees - she made the application for the aforementioned official one (apparently for reasons of pension law) Declaration of death.

literature

• Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , p. 204. ( Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia. 22, A, 16 = historical work on Westphalian regional research. Economic and social history group. 16)
• Joachim Lilla (arrangement): The deputy Gauleiter and the representation of the Gauleiter of the NSDAP in the “Third Reich” , Koblenz 2003, p. 93 (materials from the Federal Archives, issue 13) ISBN 3-86509-020-6 .

Web links

• Emil Stürtz in the database of members of the Reichstag