Franz Kerber

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Franz Anton Josef Kerber (born February 25, 1901 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † between April and September 4, 1945 ) was Lord Mayor of Freiburg im Breisgau from 1933 to 1945 .

Signature of Franz Kerber, 1943

Life

Franz Kerber had already been active in the Freikorps Oberland early on . He studied economics and graduated with a diploma . In 1925 he received his doctorate from the University of Erlangen on the economic situation of viticulture in Baden. In 1930 he joined the NSDAP (membership number 357.022), in 1932 became district leader of the NSDAP and chief editor of the NSDAP newspaper Der Alemanne as well as Gau and Reich speakers . In this position, after the NSDAP came to power , he started a smear campaign against the incumbent Lord Mayor Karl Bender , which ended with Bender's leave of absence on April 9, 1933. Kerber was appointed Bender's successor the following day. In 1936 he became district manager for local politics in Baden. In 1938 he joined the SS (membership number 309.080), in which he was promoted to Obersturmbannführer in 1941. From 1939 to June 1943 he served in the Wehrmacht .

From 1937 Kerber was also a member of the colonial advisory board of the Baden Gauverband of the Reich Colonial Association . He had been a member of the Society for Racial Hygiene since 1935 . His efforts to establish a German-dominated western region reaching far into France are shown in his Burgundy book from 1942, published by Friedrich Spieser's irredentist Hünenburg publishing house .

Kerber's term of office ended with the occupation of Freiburg by French troops in April 1945. Kerber was interned by the French military government and found shot on September 4, 1945 in a forest near Freiburg.

literature

  • Fäßler, Peter: Last handover of the city without a fight. Franz Kerber was mayor from 1933 to 1945 - 1945 finance minister without office , in: Badische Zeitung [Freiburg] from February 15, 1993.
  • Middendorff, Wolf: An unsolved murder. The case of Franz Kerber, in: Freiburger Almanach 27 (1976), pp. 81-85.
  • Middendorff, Wolf: Franz Kerber, in: Badische Biographien NF 2 (1987), p. 157f.
  • Müller, Ralf: Franz Kerber: National Socialist, Pragmatist; Freiburg Mayor, Soldier , in: perpetrators, helpers, free riders, vol. 6: Nazi victims from South Baden, ed. v. Wolfgang Proske , Gerstetten 2017, pp. 210–234.
  • Roser, Hubert: 1933–1945. Lord Mayor Dr. Franz Kerber, in: Freiburger Almanach 47 (1996), pp. 75-82.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 304.
  2. ↑ Lord Mayor Dr. Bender on leave. Freiburger Zeitung, April 10, 1933, 1st morning edition, p. 3 [1]
predecessor Office successor
Karl Bender Lord Mayor of Freiburg im Breisgau
1933–1945 		Max Keller
personal data
SURNAME Kerber, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kerber, Franz Anton Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), Lord Mayor of Freiburg im Breisgau
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH between April 1945 and September 4, 1945
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau