Friedrich August Wirth (party official)

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Friedrich August "Friedel" Wirth (born June 22, 1883 in Wörrstadt ( Rheinhessen ), † May 11, 1945 in Lichtenau near Ingolstadt ) was a German veterinarian and an official of the NSDAP . From 1937 to 1945 he was the district leader of the NSDAP in Alzey - Oppenheim .

Life

Friedrich August "Friedel" Wirth, son of a Wörrstadt veterinarian, began studying veterinary medicine in Giessen and later Berlin shortly after graduating from high school in 1903 . In 1907 he graduated from the state examination and the following year he established himself as a practical veterinarian in his home town. In 1911 he received his doctorate as Dr. med. vet.

During the First World War he served as a veterinary officer at the front and was wounded so badly that he lost a lower leg. He received the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class.

At the latest after the lost war and the fall of the German Empire , Wirth's life began to become increasingly politicized. In 1919 he joined the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund . During the occupation of the Rhineland after the end of the war, there was a confrontation with the French authorities, which ultimately led to the deportation of the entire family in 1923. Friedrich Wirth saw and heard Adolf Hitler speak for the first time in Munich in the same year and since then, according to his own statement, has been very sympathetic to the National Socialists and their “Führer”.

In 1924 he was able to return to Wörrstadt, where there should soon have been renewed clashes with the occupying forces. In 1930, the year the French occupation troops withdrew from the Rhineland, Wirth finally joined the NSDAP and became NSDAP local group leader in Wörrstadt.

Since 1932 Gauobmann the veterinarians, he was from April to August 1933 as "Reichsfachberater for the status of veterinarians in the National Socialist German Medical Association (NSDAeB) " the official predecessor of the later Reichstierärzteführer Friedrich Weber . At the same time he also worked as the “Reich Commissioner for the Co-ordination of Veterinarians” in the NSDAeB, he was responsible for the “political clean-up” and the co-ordination of veterinary professional organizations in the German Reich on May 22, 1933. Also in the year of the “ seizure of power ”, on April 24, 1933, Friedel Wirth received one of 13 seats in the NSDAP's new provincial assembly in Rhineland-Hesse. In addition, he was a mandate holder of his party in the Oppenheim district council and in the Wörrstadt municipal council. In 1936 he took over the chairmanship of the Hesse-Saarpfalz Veterinary Association .

In 1937, Wirth was given the office of district leader of the NSDAP districts of Alzey and Oppenheim with effect from October 1. The following year the latter was dissolved and partially incorporated into the Alzey district. Wirth, now responsible for the enlarged NSDAP district of Alzey-Oppenheim (the widest area of ​​which was a good 50 kilometers in 1940), was unsuccessfully proposed by his party for the Reichstag . Also in 1938 he took part in the November pogrom against the Jewish citizens of Alzey. During the 7½ years of his tenure, Kreisleiter Wirth was notorious and feared for his brutal and unscrupulous dealings with his opponents. In a testimony from 1948, the mayor of Wörrstadt called him a "man of violence and a despot who knew how to keep the general population of the Alzey district in excitement through his brutality". Most recently he had the rank of senior division head of the NSDAP.

Shortly before troops of the US Army took the city of Alzey in March 1945, he fled from the advancing enemy on the right bank of the Rhine. There he ended up in American custody in Upper Bavaria , in which he committed suicide in Lichtenau near Ingolstadt on May 11, 1945, shortly after the end of the war in Europe and the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany.

Friedrich Wirth was married and had several children.

Publications

  • On the doctrine of the contracture of the muscle . Dissertation Munich 1911.
  • Basic demands for the synchronization of the German Veterinary Council and the veterinary system . In: German veterinary weekly. Hannover 1933, No. 41, p. 297, 412. ISSN  0341-6593

literature

  • Martin Fritz Brumme: "The iron broom sweeps magnificently through the German countryside." The veterinarians and the year 1933. In: Christoph Meinel (Hrsg.) Among other things: Medicine, science, technology and National Socialism . Stuttgart 1994, pp. 176-177. ISBN 3-928186-24-8 .
  • A. Görlitzer (Ed.): Address book of the National Socialist people's representatives . Berlin 1933, p.
  • Franz Maier: Biographical organization manual of the NSDAP and its divisions in the area of ​​today's state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Publications of the commission of the state parliament for the history of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Vol. 28. Hase & Koehler, Mainz 2007. ISBN 3-7758-1407-8 .
  • Eva-Maria Orlob: The Gießen Faculty of Veterinary Medicine between 1933 and 1957 . Dissertation, Giessen 2003 ( online ).
  • Michael Rademacher: Handbook of the NSDAP Gaue 1928–1945. The officials of the NSDAP and their organizations at Gau and district level in Germany and Austria as well as in the Reichsgau Gdansk-West Prussia, Sudetenland and Wartheland . Vechta 2000. ISBN 3-8311-0216-3 .
  • Erwin Royeck: Loss of the German veterinary profession in World War II 1939-1945 . Published by the Bund deutscher Veterinäroffiziere eV Darmstadt 1969.
  • Mainzer Anzeiger . Mainz 1933, No. 96 (April 25), p. 4. (Article: The new formation of the Provincial and District Council. )
  • Mainzer Anzeiger . Mainz 1937, No. 228 (October 1st), p. 9f. (Article: Proven party men in new spheres of activity. The reorganization of the party in the Gau Hessen-Nassau - new district leaders. )
  • Mainzer Anzeiger . Mainz 1945, No. 47 (24./25.2.), P. 3. (List of victims of the bombing raids on Alzey).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Mainzer Anzeiger 1937 , p. 9 f.
  2. ↑ Orlob , p. 15f. with note 2 and 3.
  3. ↑ Mainzer Anzeiger 1933 , p. 4.
  4. ^ Address book 1933 , p. 646.
  5. ↑ Hoffmann , p. 250f. u. Note 7.
  6. ↑ Maier , p. 508. Here also the quotation of the testimony of the mayor of Wörrstadt from September 20, 1948.
  7. ↑ Mainzer Anzeiger 1945 , p. 3.
  8. ↑ registry office Weichering: Death Lichtenau, Death Certificate No. 8/1945. From November 16, 1945.
personal data
SURNAME Wirth, Friedrich August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wirth, Friedel (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German veterinarian and functionary of the NSDAP
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Wörrstadt ( Rheinhessen )
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1945
Place of death Lichtenau near Ingolstadt