Franz Mayr (SA member)

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Franz Mayr (born September 28, 1890 in Burgheim ; † May 4, 1952 in Pöring ) was a German lawyer , SA leader and, during the Nazi era, police president in Munich and regional president of Upper Bavaria .

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After attending school Mayr began studying modern languages ​​and in 1913 switched to law at the University of Munich . He belonged to the Corps Makaria Munich . Immediately after the beginning of the First World War , he volunteered for the Bavarian Army , where he was initially assigned to the 15th Infantry Regiment and from 1917 to the 16 Mine Thrower Company.

Soon after the end of the war, Mayr was dismissed from the army as first lieutenant in the reserve and was unable to pursue the active career he was aiming for. He then belonged to the Epp Freikorps . From November 1919 he took part in battles in the Baltic States with the Eiserner Schar Berthold and soon afterwards in the Kapp Putsch . He then belonged to the Reichswehr Infantry Regiment 18 until the end of 1920 and headed the settlement office of the Baltic associations in Hameln . During this time he briefly gave shelter to the murderer Hans Schweighart . From January 1921 he worked for the intelligence service of the Upper Silesian Self-Protection and then participated in the III. Uprising in Upper Silesia . Since Mayr was suspected of being involved in the murder of Matthias Erzberger and three members of the Silesian Self-Protection and was also accused of being a secret group , he was arrested in September 1921 and released soon after for lack of evidence.

Mayr became a member of the NSDAP and the SA in 1920 , for which he headed the SA district of Neuburg an der Donau until 1924 . Mayr took part in the Ruhrkampf and in November 1923 in the Hitler putsch . He made his living as a merchant during this time.

From autumn 1924 he resumed his law studies, which he had broken off due to the war, and after he had passed the first state law examination in 1927, the legal traineeship followed and in 1929 the second state examination. From December 1929 he worked as a lawyer in Munich . After the interim NSDAP ban, he rejoined the party in 1931 and rejoined the SA in early July 1932, for which he immediately became a legal advisor to the Supreme SA leadership (OSAF). On January 30, 1942, he was promoted to brigade leader within the SA.

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , Mayr joined the police service at the Munich Police Department in September 1934, where he worked as a business assistant and from January 1936 head of the political department. In early March 1936 he was promoted to the government council and in early April 1937 to the senior government council. From mid-December 1937 he was Deputy Police President in Munich and, after his appointment as Government Director in September 1941, he was provisional Munich Police President from October 23, 1941 to May 12, 1943 . In this role he was also the local air raid chief. After that he was first representative and officially from November 9, 1943, District President of Upper Bavaria.

Mayr was arrested by members of the United States Army on May 3, 1945 and was then in the Heilbronn , Ludwigsburg and Dachau internment camps until May 1948 . As part of the denazification , he was classified as a follower in August 1948 after a court hearing in Ebersberg .

literature

  • Ulrike Claudia Hofmann: “Traitors fall for the distance!” Fememicide in Bavaria in the twenties. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2000. ISBN 3-412-15299-4 . (At the same time: Bamberg, Univ., Diss., 1998/99).

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Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f Joachim Lilla: Mayr, Franz , in: ders .: Minister of State, senior administrative officials and (NS) functionaries in Bavaria from 1918 to 1945
  2. a b c Ulrike Claudia Hofmann: "Traitors fall for the distance!" Fememorde in Bavaria in the twenties . Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2000, pp. 141f