Franz Hermann Woweries

Franz Hermann Woweries

Franz Hermann Woweries (born June 22, 1908 in Hanover , † December 14, 1948 in Weilburg ) was a German politician and member of the Reichstag of the NSDAP .

Live and act

After attending the humanistic grammar school in Mühlhausen in Thuringia , Woweries began studying. According to his own statements, he gave this later "in the service of the movement", i. H. in favor of the NSDAP.

Politically, Woweries had belonged to the Nazi movement since 1924: That year he joined the National Socialist Freedom Party . After the re-establishment of the NSDAP in 1925, he joined it (membership number 68.090). In the same year he began appearing as a public speaker for the party. He was also a member of the Hitler Youth , which he joined after temporarily belonging to the Bündische Jugend and the military youth . In the Hitler Youth, Woweries took on duties as Gaue leader of the districts of Thuringia and Halle-Merseburg . From 1926 to 1927 he was a member of the SA .

In 1928 Woweries was appointed to the NSDAP Gauleitung in Halle-Merseburg. Later he also took over the office of district leader in Naumburg an der Saale. In December 1928 he was entrusted with the offices of Reich Propaganda Leader and Press Officer for the Reich Youth Leadership of the Hitler Youth in Plauen . In August 1929 he became the Gau managing director of the NSDAP Gau leadership in Hesse . A year later, in 1930, he became district leader of the NSDAP Kinzigtal and their youngest Reich speaker .

In 1931 Woweries became head of the Nazi propaganda propaganda in the Gau Hessen-Nassau and advisor for youth issues. In 1932 he was appointed to the Southwest State Inspectorate of the NSDAP Reich leadership. He also became head of regional training and head of the political department in Sprenger's office. In 1933 he again took over the post of Gaupress office manager of Hessen-Nassau, which he had held from 1931 until he switched to the state inspection.

Woweries was active in the Nazi press since 1925. For his achievements in this area, he received a photograph dedicated to Adolf Hitler in 1927 and again in 1934 and appropriated copies of his book Mein Kampf . Among other things, he was editor of the first youth press service of the Hitler Youth, employee of the Hessen-Hammer magazine and editor of the Frankfurter Volksblatt . He was also the author of the NS celebrations and editor of the NS letters. Training sheets of the NSDAP in the Rhine-Main area , which appeared in a circulation of 70,000 copies.

Woweries was head of the regional association Rhein-Main in the Reichsverband der Deutschen Presse and head of the first German press comradeship camp and chief editor of the Frankfurter Volksblatt .

In June 1934, Woweries moved in as a member of the Reichstag as a member of the Reichstag in the replacement procedure for the late Fritz Lengemann , to which he was a member until the end of the Nazi regime in May 1945 as a representative of constituency 19 (Hessen-Nassau).

On October 1, 1935, Woweries was appointed to Berlin by the head of the Reich organization as chief editor of the Reichsschulungsbriefe of the NSDAP and DAF . In the same year he was accepted into the SS , in which he held the honorary rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer from 1937 until the end of the Nazi regime. On October 1, 1937, he became head of the Organs Hoheitträger - internal information organ of the Reich organizational leadership of the NSDAP . After the annexation of Austria, he was the founder of the Ostmarkbrief .

In 1938 Woweries was one of the 300 longest-serving political leaders of the NSDAP. As a reserve officer candidate, he belonged to the 116 Infantry Regiment.

During the Second World War , Woweries was appointed chief division manager of the Reichsleitung of the NSDAP during his military service in 1940. From 1943 he was district administrator of the Oberlahnkreis (Weilburg and Usingen).

After the end of the war, Woweries was denazified as encumbered (Group II) in 1948 after a court proceedings . Because he was one hundred percent disabled during the war, he was exempted from the five years of forced labor in the labor camp, as stated in the sentence. He died on December 14, 1948 in Weilburg.

In the post-war period, Woweriesen's writings were National Socialist Celebration Hours (Danner, Mühlhausen 1934), Reichsstatthalter Gauleiter Sprenger. Life picture of a follower of Adolf Hitler (Verl. Beamtenpresse, Berlin 1934) and Deutsche Fibel (Limpert, Berlin 1941) placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone .

Wowerie's estate is stored in the main state archive in Wiesbaden .

literature

• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 . , Pp. 739-740
• HHStAW inventory 1129

Web links

• Franz Hermann Woweries in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Literature by and about Franz Hermann Woweries in the catalog of the German National Library
• Woweries, Franz Hermann. Hessian biography. (As of February 17, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-w.html
2. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1947-nslit-w.html