Friedrich Degeler

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Friedrich DEGELER (* 2. August 1902 in Heidenheim an der Brenz , † 9. March 1989 ) was a German politician of the CDU and 1968-1972 deputy in the parliament of Baden-Wuerttemberg .

Life

Friedrich Degeler was born as the youngest child of a cooper family in Heidenheim. He grew up in an old Pietist and Christian home. His father was a master cooper and wine merchant. Degeler had four children: Walther, Georg, Friedemann and Albrecht Degeler. Albrecht Degeler later took over the Degeler wine shop in Heidenheim.

Friedrich Degeler attended the local elementary and high school, which he graduated from high school in 1920. He enrolled at Hohenheim University to study veterinary medicine. After the death of his older brother during the First World War, he broke off his studies at the request of his parents and learned the cooper's trade. In 1927 he passed the master craftsman examination and took over the wine shop from his parents. When the Second World War broke out, Friedrich Degeler was drafted into the police.

With effect from November 25, 1940, Degeler was seconded to the police administration in Heidenheim as a lieutenant in the reserve police force for further training and education at the Stuttgart police administration; He was added to the 2nd police reserve company "in economic terms" and at the same time seconded to the 12th police station "for training in the various branches of the police station". The last-mentioned delegation was canceled with effect from January 17, 1941, and Degeler returned to the 2nd Police Reserve Company. At the beginning of February 1941 he took over the leadership of the 1st police reserve company.

As a lieutenant in the police force, assigned to the Heidenheim police administration, he later fought in the vicinity of Stalingrad. He was then established in February 1943 in the newly established I / Pol. 16 (previously PB 56) under Battalion Leader Major of the Schutzpolizei Herbert Furck was appointed company commander in the 2nd Company with the rank of First Lieutenant of the Schutzpolizei. The location was Tilburg in the Netherlands . In at least two cases, on August 31, 1943 and March 15, 1944, he commanded the escort command for transports from the Westerbork transit camp to Auschwitz . Back in Russia in July 1944, he was taken prisoner by the Soviets near Minsk , from which he returned in 1949.

Even before the Second World War , Friedrich Degeler played an important role in the city of Heidenheim. From 1932 to 1935 he was a member of the local council, most recently as a trainee with the NSDAP. Since 1928 he was a member of the Protestant community council. He was a member of the YMCA , since 1934 he belonged to the Confessing Church . As an active old pietist, he was active in the Protestant mother community and in the choir, which he later took over as director.

As a result of these activities, Friedrich Degeler often got into disputes with the National Socialists and was even imprisoned for a week, as he was particularly involved in Christian religious instruction in schools, especially at the "Horst-Wessel-Schule" ( Hellenstein-Gymnasium ) in Heidenheim entered with the religion teacher Hans Faber . This conflict resulted from the refusal of the religion teachers at the Hellenstein-Gymnasium to agree to the Mergenthaler decree on the organization of religious education . Due to this conflict, Friedrich Degeler lost all offices in the district chamber of crafts.

He resumed most of these activities after his return from Soviet captivity. In 1953 Degeler took over the post of district master craftsman for ten years. In the same year he was elected to the district council and the local council and deputy mayor. In 1962 he became President of the Ulm Chamber of Crafts and contributed to the creation of the vocational training center of the Ulm Chamber of Crafts. From 1958 he was a member of the supervisory board of Heidenheimer Volksbank and since 1968 chairman of the supervisory board. In 1968 he became a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg .

Honors

The square in front of the town hall in Heidenheim an der Brenz was named after Degeler because of the location of his former private house, which was located on Grabenstrasse. There the cooper festival takes place in his honor every summer, which commemorates the "Hoidamer" cooper Friedrich Degeler from the town of Heidenheim an der Brenz and where wine merchants from the region present their wines. At the end of 2014, after Degeler's role in the concentration camp transports was made known by DKP City Councilor Reinhard Püschel, an application to rename the square was rejected by Mayor Bernhard Ilg .

literature

  • Castle view 3/05
  • Hans Wulz: Heidenheim originals . Kopp Verlag 1987.
  • Gerhard Schweier: Well-known Heidenheimers . Kopp Verlag 1968.
  • Tanja von Fransecky: Escape of Jews from Deportation Trains in France, Belgium and the Netherlands , 2nd edition, Metropol-Verlag, Berlin 2014.
  • Tanja von Fransecky: The guards of the deportation trains. France, Belgium and the Netherlands. In: Francia 42 (2015), pp. 207–230, here: pp. 220 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Daily order 1940 / 154.5 regarding the assignment of reserve officers in the Ludwigsburg State Archives , holdings EL 51/1 II c (State Police Directorate Stuttgart II: command day commands, command special commands) , signature Bü 29 (digitized version).
  2. ↑ Daily order 1941 / 11.5 regarding the cancellation of delegations in the Ludwigsburg State Archives , holdings EL 51/1 II c (State Police Directorate Stuttgart II: command day commands, command special commands) , signature Bü 31 (digitized version).
  3. ↑ Daily order 1941 / 23.2 regarding representation in the Ludwigsburg State Archives , holdings EL 51/1 II c (State Police Directorate Stuttgart II: command day commands, command special commands) , signature Bü 32 (digital copy).
  4. ^ Tanja von Fransecky: Escape of Jews from deportation trains in France, Belgium and the Netherlands , 2nd edition, Berlin 2014, p. 304.
  5. ^ Official Journal of the Württemberg Ministry of Culture No. 7/1937 of May 21, 1937 ( online on a website of the Evangelical Working Group for Contemporary Church History ).
personal data
SURNAME Degeler, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd August 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidenheim an der Brenz
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1989
Place of death Heidenheim an der Brenz