Friedrich Schlageter

Friedrich Schlageter (born January 8, 1900 in Stollhofen , † August 4, 1952 ) was a German SA leader. He was one of the main people responsible for the SA terror in Berlin-Steglitz .

biography

Friedrich Schlageter was the first of nine children of a Black Forest farmer. He spent his childhood near Baden-Baden . He learned the agricultural subject. In the final phase of the First World War , he registered as a volunteer with the Field Artillery Regiment No. 50 in 1918 . His frontline deployment was prevented by the collapse of the German Empire in November 1918.

After he had belonged to a volunteer corps, Schlageter returned to his homeland. He spent the following years completing his agricultural training, which he completed with the state examination at the agricultural seminar in Helmstedt . Schlageter spent his first professional years as a manager and estate inspector in southern and central Germany. In 1928 Schlageter moved to Berlin , where he worked for Stadtgüter GmbH . After a long period as an unemployed and casual worker, he found employment as a worker in the Gartenfeld cable factory , where he left in 1930. In 1931 he became a transport worker at a chemical industrial plant, where he became a foreman until 1933. On November 1, 1933, Schlageter became an employee in the auditing department of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG).

Politically, Schlageter moved further and further to the right in the 1920s: he took part in the Ruhrkampf in 1923 , successively joined the Young German Order , the Ehrhardt Marine Brigade , the German National Guard and Defense Association and the Stahlhelm .

On May 1, 1930, Schlageter became a member of the NSDAP and its street combat group, the SA. As a member of Storm 35, he took part in numerous violent clashes with communists . During an attack by his political opponents, he suffered a double fracture of the skull and a concussion, which he cured in the home of the women's order in Potsdam . In February 1931 Schlageter became a member of the staff guard of the Berlin SA leadership. During the Stennes revolt , he returned to Sturm 35 and then switched to Sturm 44 in Friedrichsfelde as a storm money administrator . After an intermezzo as adjutant in Sturmbann II of Standard 5, he was promoted to SA-Sturmbannführer on October 15, 1931 and entrusted with the management of the Sturmbanns I / 3, which encompassed the area from Friedrichshain to the Schlesisches Bahnhof .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Schlageter was promoted to SA-Obersturmbannführer on August 6, 1933 and was entrusted with the management of SA Standard 5 (Horst Wessel Standard) of the SA group Berlin-Brandenburg . In this position Schlageter was responsible for the terrorist measures of the SA in the Steglitz district. At his behest, numerous people were deported to improvised SA cellars and to the Oranienburg concentration camp . At the end of 1933 Schlageter's "merits" in this area were rewarded with promotion to Standartenführer.

After the so-called Röhm putsch , Schlageter was relieved of his position in the SA and politically sidelined as a supporter of the Berlin SA chief Karl Ernst, who was shot as a traitor . On April 1, 1935, he was transferred to the staff of SA Brigade 28.

After the Second World War , he was no longer charged with participating in the SA crimes of 1933/34 because he died before the Berlin SA trials opened .

literature

• Wilfried Kugel : The irresponsible one. The life of Hanns Heinz Ewers . 1992.
• Hsi-Huey Liang: The Berlin Police in the Weimar Republic . 1977.
• Rainer Sandvoss : Resistance in Steglitz and Zehlendorf. 1933-1945 . 1986.
• Martin Schuster: The SA in the National Socialist »seizure of power« in Berlin and Brandenburg 1926–1934 , 2005 (PDF file; 4.0 MB).
• Julek Karl von Engelbrechten , Hans Volz : We wander through National Socialist Berlin: A guide through the memorials of the struggle for the Reich capital. Edited on behalf of the Supreme SA leadership. Rather, Munich 1937.