Friedrich Weber (veterinarian)

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Friedrich Weber (second from left) among the main defendants in the Hitler trial (1924). To the left of him Heinz Pernet , then to the right Wilhelm Frick , Hermann Kriebel , Erich Ludendorff , Adolf Hitler , Wilhelm Brückner , Ernst Röhm and Robert Wagner

Friedrich Weber (born January 30, 1892 in Frankfurt am Main , † July 14, 1955 in Munich ) was a German veterinarian at the University of Munich , leader in the Freikorps Oberland and Bund Oberland , ministerial official and SS leader in National Socialist Germany .

Life

Friedrich Weber completed his school career in his hometown with the Abitur. He enrolled at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Munich in the summer semester of 1912 . In August 1914 he joined the 1st Heavy Rider Regiment "Prince Karl of Bavaria" in Munich. After the First World War , in which he had participated as a field aid veterinarian, Weber finished his studies in 1919. In the same year he took part in the overthrow of the Munich Soviet Republic under Franz Ritter von Epp . In 1920 he received his license to practice medicine .

From March 1920 Weber took part as a group leader with the Godin volunteer corps in the suppression of uprisings in the Ruhr area. On October 1, 1920, he became an assistant at the Animal Physiological Institute of the Veterinary Faculty of the University of Munich. During his time there he was in 1922 with his dissertation about a method for determining the extract nitrogen doctorate . He was also a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation .

Weber joined the Oberland Freikorps in 1921 , where he was last company commander. When the Freikorps was dissolved, the organization was renamed “Bund Oberland”. Weber was its leader from 1922 and was also involved in the 1923 Hitler-Ludendorff Putsch . On April 1, 1924, he was charged with high treason to five years imprisonment convicted. The State Ministry for Education and Culture immediately dismissed Weber from university service after his conviction. In spring 1925 he was released from custody in Landsberg . After the unsuccessful attempt to incorporate the Bund Oberland into the SS, he resigned from his post as federal leader in 1929.

Despite his criminal record, he received his district examination in 1925 and became a district veterinarian in Munich and from 1926 to 1933 in Euerdorf . From 1926 he was also an assistant at the Institute for Hereditary Research with Erwin Baur and previously briefly at the Animal Pathology Institute. He founded a pig breeding cooperative.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Weber became 1st class veterinary medicine advisor and political adjutant in the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior on May 1, 1933. He kept in close contact with Adolf Hitler and on August 25, 1933, he became the representative of the Reich leadership of the NSDAP (membership number 1.310.670) to bring the veterinary profession into line and found a Reich Chamber of Veterinarians as well as a representative of the veterinary profession in the new Advisory Council for Public Health . In 1933 he was elected federal leader of the German Guild , a student corporation to which he had belonged since 1923. On February 15, 1934 he was appointed "Reichsführer der Deutschen Tierärzte". Later he also headed the Reich Chamber of Veterinarians.

In the Nazi state , Weber became Ministerialrat in the Reich Ministry of the Interior from April 1, 1934 , then Ministerialdirektor from June 1, 1935 , and finally Ministerialdirektor from April 20, 1936. Weber was appointed honorary professor of the veterinary medicine faculty of the University of Berlin on July 26, 1939 . Within the SS , he took the rank of group leader in 1944 . He was bearer of the so-called blood order and the golden party badge .

In May 1945 Weber was imprisoned by the American military. In the arbitration chamber proceedings , he was first classified in Group I (main culprits) on July 5, 1948, and sent to a labor camp. In the revision procedure on May 3, 1949, he was initially classified in Group III (less burdened), and finally in Group IV (fellow travelers). After the Second World War , Weber continued to practice his profession as a veterinarian until his death and helped establish cattle insemination in Bavaria. His estate is in the Bavarian Main State Archives .

Fonts

  • Friedrich Weber (1934): On the Friedmann means . In: Dtsch. Veterinary Bl. 1, 22. ISSN  0724-679X
  • Friedrich Weber (1951): Professor Abelein 60 years . In: Tierärztliche Umschau 6 (13/14), 260. ISSN  0049-3864

literature

  • J. Schäffer, P. Gunther: Dr. Friedrich Weber - Reich veterinarian leader 1934-1945 (preliminary report) . In: J. Schäffer (Ed.): Veterinary medicine in the Third Reich. German Veterinary Medical Society, Giessen 1998, pp. 276–292.
  • Ralf Fastner: "Reichstierärzteführer" Dr. Friedrich Weber - Freikorps fighter, "blood medalist", careerist , in Marita Krauss: Right careers in Munich. From the Weimar period to the post-war years , Volk Verlag Munich, 2010, ISBN 978-3-937200-53-8 .
  • Weber, Friedrich, Dr. med. vet. In: Alfons Labisch / Florian Tennstedt : The way to the "Law on the Unification of the Health System" of July 3, 1934. Development lines and moments of the state and municipal health system in Germany , Part 2, Academy for Public Health in Düsseldorf 1985, ISSN 0172 -2131, pp. 510f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Stefanie Albrecht: Prof. Dr. Hans Jöchle. A life for the shoeing. Dissertation, Hanover 2006.
  2. ↑ a b Weber, Friedrich, Dr. med. vet. In: Alfons Labisch / Florian Tennstedt: The way to the "Law on the Unification of the Health System" of July 3, 1934. Development lines and moments of the state and municipal health system in Germany , Part 2, Academy for Public Health in Düsseldorf 1985, ISSN 0172 -2131, pp. 510f.
  3. ↑ Helmut Kellershohn: In "Service to the National Socialist Revolution". The German Guild and its relationship to National Socialism . In: Yearbook of the Archives of the German Youth Movement . tape 19 (1999-2004) . Wochenschau Verlag, 2004, ISSN  0587-5277 .
  4. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 657.
  5. ↑ News from the Bavarian State Archives No. 77, December 2019, p. 25. Retrieved on August 2, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Leader of the Freikorps Oberland and Reich veterinarian leader
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1955
Place of death Munich