Friedrich Sauermann

Friedrich August Sauermann also Fritz Saurmann (born March 18, 1893 in Mainz , † April 3, 1973 in Birkenfeld ) was a German Nazi functionary at the time of National Socialism .

Life

Sauermann attended grammar school and then took part in World War I and was a Russian prisoner of war from 1915 to 1919. After the end of the war, Sauermann began studying economics and art history, which he did not finish. He then worked as a journalist in Mainz from 1924. Sauermann, who was acquainted with Werner Best , joined the NSDAP in early August 1932 and became second mayor of Mainz a few months later. Sauermann was expelled from the NSDAP in 1934 because of “friendship with the Jews” and “separatism”. Two years later Sauermann was pardoned by Adolf Hitler and accepted back into the party. From 1938 Sauermann was an alderman in Völklingen .

During the Second World War , Sauermann was City Governor of Lublin in the German-occupied General Government from October 24, 1939 to February 1942 . Sauermann was not incriminated in later statements by a Jewish Holocaust survivor, but Sauermann himself operated the removal of the Polish mayor in Lublin. Sauermann's own impeachment was related to an allegation of corruption directed against him. Even after his removal from office, Sauermann remained in Lublin because of a trial against him. The outcome of the proceedings is not known. After the recall of the Lublin governor Ernst Zörner , Sauermann was again city governor from April 18, 1943 to July 1944, now in Biała Podlaska .

After the end of the war, Sauermann was later, among other things, managing director at the employers' association of the Saarland chemical industry.

Works

Franz Gill, Fritz Saurmann, memorandum on the question of building an indoor swimming pool in Mainz , Mainz: City and State Association for Physical Exercise. 1928 31 p.: Ill. & Beil.

literature

Bogdan Musiał : German civil administration and persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-447-04208-7 (2nd unchanged edition, ibid. 2004, ISBN 3-447-05063-2 ).
Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Updated 2nd edition. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
Markus Roth: Gentlemen. The German District Chiefs in Occupied Poland - Career Paths, Rule Practice and Post-History. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0477-2 ( contributions to the history of the 20th century 9), (also: Jena, Univ., Diss., 2007).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Bogdan Musial: German civil administration and the persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement . Wiesbaden 1999, p. 391f.
^ ^A ^b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 521.
↑ According to his own statement from 1968, the cause was a conflict with the governor Ernst Zörner, sh. Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen , p. 107f.

personal data
SURNAME	Sauermann, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sauermann, Fritz; Saurmann Fritz; Sauermann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and Nazi functionary
DATE OF BIRTH	March 18, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mainz
DATE OF DEATH	3rd April 1973
Place of death	Birch field

[Musial391f-1] Bogdan Musial: German civil administration and the persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement . Wiesbaden 1999, p. 391f.

[Klee521-2] A ^b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 521.

[3] According to his own statement from 1968, the cause was a conflict with the governor Ernst Zörner, sh. Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen , p. 107f.