Friedrich Uebelhoer

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Friedrich Uebelhoer

Friedrich Uebelhoer (born September 25, 1893 in Rothenburg ob der Tauber , † around 1945) was a German politician (NSDAP).

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Uebelhoer attended elementary school and the Progymnasium in Rothenburg ob der Tauber and the old grammar school in Würzburg until 1904 . In 1914 he joined the Baden foot artillery regiment No. 14 . During the First World War he took part for four years on the Western Front and on the staff of Army High Command 1 . After the war, in which Uebelhoer was awarded the Iron Cross of both classes and the Order of the Zähringer Lion , he belonged to the Lettow-Vorbeck Freikorps . He then studied law and political science in Freiburg and Würzburg for five semesters . He earned the academic degree of a business graduate . He then worked in industry for ten years.

In 1922 Uebelhoer joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) and again in 1925 with membership number 11,707 after the ban on the party was lifted. In 1931 he became NSDAP district leader in Naumburg an der Saale .

In the general election in March 1933 , he was a candidate of the Nazi Party for the constituency 11 (Merseburg) in the Reichstag voted, which it then on until the end of Nazi rule belonged in May 1945 without interruption. The most important parliamentary event in which Uebelhoer took part during his time as a member of parliament was the passage of the Enabling Act in March 1933, which was also passed with his vote.

From 1933 to 1939 Uebelhoer acted as district leader of the NSDAP and mayor and district administrator of Naumburg. In addition, he was Gauamtsleiter of the NSV in Gau Halle-Merseburg.

In the Schutzstaffel , Uebelhoer achieved the rank of SS Brigade Leader . After the attack on Poland in autumn 1939, Uebelhoer was appointed district inspector in Gau Wartheland and district president of Kalisz-Lodz in 1940 . On December 10, 1939, in this capacity, he gave the order for the establishment of the Jewish ghetto in Lodz . The order states: "The creation of the ghetto is of course only a transitional measure [...] The ultimate goal must be that we burn out this plague bump completely."

After the end of his activity in Kalisz-Lodz, Uebelhoer became district president in Merseburg in October 1943 , a position he held until the end of the war in 1945. After that his track is lost. He may have died at the end of the war in 1945, but the court set the date of his death as December 31, 1950.

Uebelhoer's estate is now stored in the Berlin branch of the Federal Archives . It contains materials from the years 1914 to 1945 on approximately one meter .

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  1. a b c d Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 633.
  2. Willi Jasper: “ 'Why another world?' “, In: Die Zeit 29/1995.