Ernst Ittameier

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Ernst Ittameier

Ernst Ittameier (born March 26, 1893 in Wassertrüdingen , † November 5, 1948 in Landsberg am Lech ) was a German politician (NSDAP).

Live and act

Ernst Ittameier attended elementary school in Wassertrüdingen and a Progymnasium in Oettingen from 1899 to 1903 . After training as a businessman, Ittameier worked as a flour seller at the Gugelmühle near Röckingen . Ittameier entered the army in 1913 and took part in the First World War as an officer from 1914 to 1918 . After his discharge from the army in 1919, Ittameier worked from then on as a commercial clerk. His marriage took place in 1924.

After the First World War, Ittameier became a member of the Freikorps Oberland and the military association Reichsflagge , then local and district group leader in the federal Oberland. In addition, he was initially politically active in the DDP .

On November 2, 1925, Ittameier joined the NSDAP ( membership number 21,575). Shortly after joining, he became the local group leader of the NSDAP in Wassertrüdingen and in 1928 the district leader of the NSDAP district in Wassertrüdingen. In 1929 he entered the city council. In March 1932 he became the first mayor of Wassertrüdingen. Ittermeier also acted as NSDAP district leader of Dinkelsbühl (1931–1945) and Feuchtwangen (1940–1945). From September 1940 he worked full-time for the NSDAP. In the SA he held the rank of SA standard leader from March 1933; in April 1943 he was promoted to SA Oberführer.

In the general election in March 1933 Ittameier was a candidate of the Nazi Party for the constituency 26 (francs) in the Reichstag voted, which it initially belonged to the "elections" in November of the same year. After an eight-month absence from the now National Socialist Reichstag , Ittameier returned to the Reichstag in July 1934 as a member of the Reichstag for constituency 28 (Dresden-Bautzen) in the follow-up procedure for the Reichstag member Georg von Detten, who was murdered during the Röhm Putsch , and which he has now held until the end belonged to the Nazi regime in May 1945. In March 1936, however, he exchanged his mandate for constituency 28 for a mandate for constituency 26 (francs). The most important parliamentary event in which Ittameier participated during his time as a member of parliament was the passing of the Enabling Act , which he helped to pass, in March 1933.

Involvement in the air murder

On March 1, 1945, an American bomber pilot who parachuted from his damaged aircraft over Wassertrüdingen was arrested immediately after landing and taken to Mayor Ittameier. He heard the prisoner of war and, according to witnesses, said the following: "Look at him, he has grandparents in Braunschweig and flies against German women and children, ugh." The prisoner of war was imprisoned in the town hall jail after the interrogation. Ittameiers refused to transfer the prisoner of war to the police. After discussions with three local officials, including members of the Volkssturm , the district leadership and the Wehrmacht , it was jointly decided to let the prisoner of war "pay for his crimes". On the night of March 1, 1945, the prisoner of war was brought out of the city on Ittameier's orders, mistreated with a spade and shot shortly afterwards. The body was then cremated in the nearby forest. The following day, Ittameier, who was not involved in the direct execution of the murder, demanded that the perpetrators be removed from the traces of the crime.

Ittameier was arrested by the US Army in 1945 . On October 8, 1947, Ittameier was accused of the murder of the pilot Jack Mc Nider Bookman in a US military court as part of the Dachau trials in one of the so-called aviation trials with four other accused. Ittameier was found guilty of the act, if not the person responsible, and sentenced to death by hanging on October 17, 1947 . After the verdict was confirmed, Ittameier was executed on November 5, 1948 in the Landsberg War Crimes Prison .

literature

  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , pp. 273-274.
  • United States v. Georg Eckstein et al. - Case No. 12-2404 in engl. Language (PDF file; 2.6 MB)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer Hambrecht: The rise of the NSDAP in Middle and Upper Franconia (1925-1933) , 1976 p. 473; Lilla extras , p. 273.
  2. ↑ Manfred Kittel: Province between Reich and Republic: Political Mentalities in Germany and France 1918-1933 / 36 , Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2000, p. 633.
  3. ^ [1] German Documents Among the War Crimes Records of the Judge Advocate Division, Headquarters, United States Army, Europe, 1967 (pdf; 267 kB); Lilla, extras , p. 273.
  4. ↑ United States v. Georg Eckstein et al. - Case No. 12-2404, p. 5
  5. ↑ United States v. Georg Eckstein et al. - Case No. 12-2404, pp. 5ff.
  6. ↑ United States v. Georg Eckstein et al. - Case No. 12-2404, pp. 5ff.
  7. ^ Rainer Bookhagen: The Protestant child care and the inner mission in the time of ... , 2002, p. 1008.
personal data
SURNAME Ittameier, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Wassertrüdingen
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1948
Place of death Landsberg am Lech