Friedrich Ehrlicher

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Friedrich "Fritz" Ehrlicher (born May 26, 1908 in Uffenheim ; † May 19, 1993 ) was a German war criminal and a functionary of the Nazi regime. During the National Socialist tyranny he exercised various functions in the NSDAP , Hitler Youth , youth hostel organization and administration. As Grünwalder Volkssturmführer he shot and killed a resistance fighter shortly before the end of the Second World War , for which he was sentenced to a mild prison sentence in 1948. From 1971 to 1977 he was President of the German Unitarian Religious Community .

Life

Study and school service

After graduating from high school in 1926, Ehrlicher studied ancient languages , German and history in Munich and Berlin. In 1931 he passed the state examination for teaching at secondary schools in Bavaria and then worked for two years as a student assistant at grammar schools in Munich and Augsburg.

politics

From 1922 to 1929 Ehrlicher was a member of the Jung-Bayern-Ring, which as a paramilitary arm of the Bavarian People's Party took on the name Bayernwacht . In September 1930 he joined the NSDAP and a month later also HJ . From 1931 to 1933 he was also a member of the SS . In 1933 he became Hitler Youth leader for Swabians in Augsburg. From 1933 to 1935 he was the leader (chairman) of the DJH-Gaues Bayern and inspector south.

From October 1933 he was an honest youth welfare officer in the Munich city youth welfare office and its director from 1938 to 1945. In this role he also held lectures on the subject of youth studies and youth law at the law faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . From 1939 he was also head of the propaganda / public speaking department in the NSDAP Gauleitung Munich-Upper Bavaria and from 1940 also head of the main department IV (social affairs / health, peasantry / rural service) in the HJ area management Hochland.

War Crimes and Conviction

From 1940 to 1943 he did military service. A few days before the end of the already lost war, as the local leader of the Volkssturm, he shot and killed the doctor Thomas Max , a leader of the Bavarian Freedom Campaign (FAB) in Grünwald . He was interned from May 1945 to December 1948 . In September 1948 Ehrlicher had to answer before the Munich I Regional Court for the murder of 1945. The court sentenced him to two years' imprisonment for manslaughter. He served part of the sentence from 1949 to 1950.

Professional activity after imprisonment

From 1950 Ehrlicher worked for several years as a copywriter in the household goods business of his cousin Harald Ehrlicher due to a professional ban . From 1954 to 1970 he worked as an employee in the education center of the Bavarian trade. From 1971 to 1973 he was an honorary lecturer there. In 1971 he started his own business as a management consultant and practiced this profession until 1976.

religion

In 1949 Ehrlicher became a member of the German Unitarian Religious Community , which at that time had a large influx of ethnic believers in God . There he worked as a community leader in Munich (1950–1956), regional community leader in Bavaria (1956–1971), member of the Spiritual Council (1951–1982) and President of the entire community (1971–1977).

Private

Ehrlicher had been married since 1934 and had four children.

Publications

  • The fate of youth as a reason for social uprooting. In: The non-settled man - a contribution to the redesign of the spatial and human order in the Greater German Reich. Beck, 1938, pp. 243-274.
  • Liberated religion. Special print, 2nd improved edition. self-published by the author, 1982, DNB 920076270 .

literature

  • Eva Kraus: The German Youth Hostel Association 1909–1933: Program - People - Synchronization. Pro Business, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86386-488-0 .
  • Michael Buddrus : Total education for total war: Hitler Youth and National Socialist youth policy. (= Texts and materials on contemporary history. Volume 13). Walter de Gruyter, 2003, ISBN 3-11-096795-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Kraus: Youth Hostel Association. 2013, p. 396.
  2. ↑ Historical Lexicon of Bavaria. (accessed on July 1, 2015)
  3. ↑ a b Honest: Liberated Religion. 1982, inside back cover.
  4. ^ University of Munich: civil status. Munich 1941, p. 15.
  5. ^ Buddrus: Education. 2003, p. 987, fn. 150.
  6. ^ Bernhard Lohr: Heldenkinder, Traitorkinder. In: Politics. Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 7, 2018, accessed on April 9, 2018 : "The Second World War was almost over when the resistance fighter Thomas Max was shot by a fiery Nazi in Grünwald."
  7. ↑ It happened on April 28th, 1945: From the "fighting spirit" of an unteachable Volksturmführer. Broadcast by Bayerischer Rundfunk on April 23, 1995.
personal data
SURNAME Honestly, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Honest, Fritz (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Nazi functionary and war criminal
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Uffenheim
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1993