Friedrich Wambsganß

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Friedrich Wambsganß often called Fritz Wambsganß (born June 25, 1886 in Rehau , Upper Franconia ; † January 12, 1979 in Rodalben ) was a German teacher, Nazi politician and Protestant synod president .

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He was the son of the customs officer Valentin Wambsganß, attended the Latin school in Grünstadt and in 1908 became an elementary school teacher. As a war volunteer, Friedrich Wambsganß took part in the First World War from 1914 to 1918 and received the Iron Cross 1st class. In 1918 he came to Kaiserslautern as a teacher . Here Wambsganß founded the NSDAP local group in 1925 and in the same year advanced to the position of the first Gauleiter of the Rheinpfalz party area , in which office Josef Bürckel replaced him in 1926.

Friedrich Wambsganß was school councilor , Gau head of the Combat League for German Culture and in 1933 elected to the regional synod of the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate ; 1934 to its president. He campaigned for their conformity and transferred the previously independent regional church to the German Evangelical Church under Reich Bishop Ludwig Müller .

In 1934 he became SA-Standartenführer , in 1937 SA-Oberführer and Government Director in Saarbrücken , Department of Culture and Education, also responsible for the Saar-Palatinate part of the Palatinate Church. He headed the education department of what was now the Westmark Gau , later also in the civil administration for Lorraine , and was Gauwalter of the Nazi teachers' association from 1931 . In 1943 he reached the office of senior government director . He was the holder of the golden party badge of the NSDAP and had the party member number 23796.

Wambsganß replied to a request from the Palatinate State Bishop Ludwig Diehl as follows:

“I propose to delete the Old Testament completely, because I cannot see any religious-educational values ​​in it ... The history of the New Testament should, in my opinion, be treated as the struggle emanating from Jesus against the spiritual and material way of thinking of the Jewish People. It is the great spiritual revolution against haggling, formula stuff, alienation of all religious values ​​by Jews ... The belief that the Jewish people were specially chosen by our Lord God must finally disappear. The fight against Judaism in Germany will not be understood as long as this belief is widespread. "

- Development of Protestant religious instruction in the Palatinate since 1816

After the end of the war he was interned in Idar-Oberstein and Landau from 1945 to 1948 . In the course of denazification , the judicial classification as NS “ minor offender ” followed in 1949, and in 1950 the judgment was overturned and the proceedings were completely discontinued. On December 31, 1950, Friedrich Wambsganß retired with full civil service salaries and died in Rodalben in 1979.

His brother was the left-wing Protestant pastor Georg Valentin Wambsganß (1879–1942).

literature

  • Yearbook for West German State History , Volume 25, 1999, self-published by the State Archives Administration Rhineland-Palatinate, p. 557, excerpt scan
  • Hans-Christian Harten, Uwe Neirich, Matthias Schwerendt: Racial hygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich: Bio-bibliographical manual , Oldenbourg Verlag, 2009, ISBN 3050048417 , pp. 220, 221 u. 486; Digital view

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 200th anniversary of the Progymnasium Grünstadt , list of still living students, Riedel Verlag, Grünstadt, 1929, p. 35
  2. ^ The archive of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland: Its history and its holdings: Edited on the occasion of the 150th anniversary , 2003, p. 136, ISBN 3930250462 ; Detail scan
  3. ^ Hans-Christian Harten, Uwe Neirich, Matthias Schwerendt: Racial hygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich: Bio-bibliographisches Handbuch , Oldenbourg Verlag, 2009, ISBN 3050048417 , p. 486; Digital view
  4. ↑ Michael Landgraf : Development of Protestant Religious Education in the Palatinate since 1816 , Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 2011, p. 13 u. 14; PDF view
personal data
SURNAME Wambsganß, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wambsganß, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil servant, politician and Protestant synod president
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Rehau
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1979
Place of death Rodalben