Friedrich Wiegershaus

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Friedrich Wiegershaus (born June 2, 1877 in Dilldorf near Kupferdreh , † 1934 ) was a German-ethnic politician.

Life

Wiegershaus was born the son of a master baker. By profession he was a commercial clerk and was a union member of the German National Handicrafts Association , whose Elberfeld branch he headed in 1909 and from which he left before the World War . In 1912 he was on the board of the regional association Westmark of the German Social Party (DSP) and head of the Elberfeld local group of the DSP. From 1916 he led the united regional association of the German Nationalist Party (DvP).

After the war, Wiegershaus was a city ​​councilor in Elberfeld for the German National People's Party (DNVP) in the spring of 1919 . As a result of the merging of the DvP into the DNVP, the Reichsverband der DvP remained in existence and was converted into the Deutschvölkischen Bund, whose second chairman Wiegershaus was elected on March 30th ( Ferdinand Werner was first chairman ). Through the merger of the Deutschvölkischer Bund with the German Schutz- und Trutzbund - established by the Pan-German Association - to form the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund on October 1, 1919, Wiegershaus switched to this new, ethnic organization. In the Schutz- und Trutzbund, Wiegershaus was the head of the Rhineland district and, together with Werner, was involved in setting up the regional associations in Hesse and in the unoccupied part of the Rhineland.

Wiegershaus and Werner opposed the internal pan-German dominance in the Schutz- und Trutzbund very early on. For example, they complained about the managing director Alfred Roth , who in their opinion was too autonomous, to the secret superintendent Konstantin von Gebsattel , who finally saw himself compelled to appoint both deputy chairmen in April 1920, even though he rejected the objections to his own dictatorial role . Even later, the relationship between Roth and Wiegershaus remained, who was almost never informed about his activities in advance, which Wiegershaus u. a. complained to the executive chairman Gertzlaff von Hertzberg , excited. Until the dissolution of the Schutz- und Trutzbund, Wiegershaus and Werner seconded each other in their attacks against the Pan-German Gebsattel, Roth and Hertzberg.

In Elberfeld, Wiegershaus acted entirely on the line of the Schutz- und Trutzbund, with a small request at the beginning of March 1920 to the city administration against the distribution of 2040 tons of wheat flour to the headquarters for Mazzeversorgung GmbH in Frankfurt am Main. In the meantime, he continued to campaign for the Völkisch in the DNVP. So he held at the second party congress of the DNVP on 25/26. October 1920 in Hanover a speech in support of the Volkish motion that the DNVP should take a position on the “race question” and expel Jews from the party (the motion was rejected).

When the Schutz- und Trutzbund in the summer of 1921 due to personal rivalries, secession movements and bans in most German countries after the murder of Walther Rathenau - from which Wiegershaus still hoped in a letter to Hertzberg on July 21st a stronger union of the national camp - was in the process of dissolution, Wiegershaus was, together with Werner, Artur Dinter and Theodor Fritsch, head of a group of Schutz- und Trutzbündler who strongly opposed Roth and Hertzberg and campaigned for the founding of a new national association, which was led by Ernst zu Reventlow - one of the starting points for the later German Volkische Freiheitspartei (DVFP), of which Wiegershaus was one of the founders in late 1922. Before the final end of the Schutz- und Trutzbund, Wiegershaus and Werner were removed from their offices by Hertzberg at the “ German Day ” in Coburg (October 14-15, 1922).

After the DVFP for the general election in May 1924 with the banned Nazi Party list connecting National Socialist Freedom Movement : was received (later National Socialist Freedom Movement), met Wiegershaus at the party convention this nationalist-Nazi partnership of convenience in Weimar in August of Joseph Goebbels , he out Engaged in early September as an editor for his low-circulation magazine Völkische Freiheit . At the beginning of October he became the head of the editorial department, which consisted only of himself. After Adolf Hitler had been released from his imprisonment in a fortress, Goebbels welcomed him to the Völkische Freiheit at the turn of the year 1924/25 as a “leader and hero”. A little later, on January 17, 1925, Goebbels published his own job application as an editor in the magazine, which earned him the resignation from Wiegershaus.

In December 1924 Wiegershaus was elected to the Prussian state parliament for the National Socialist Freedom Party (started under the name "National Socialist Freedom Movement, United Völkische List") , to which he belonged from the constituent session in January 1925 until he left after the state elections in May 1928 .

Others

The book Friedrich Wiegershaus , published in 1934 and written by the Volkish fraternity member Karl Hoppmann , was put on the list of literature to be segregated from the Soviet occupation zone in 1948 .

Contrary to statements to the contrary, which often appear in the literature, Wiegershaus never had a seat in the Reichstag.

literature

  • Uwe Lohalm: Völkischer Radikalismus: The history of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutz-Bund. 1919-1923 . Leibniz-Verlag, Hamburg 1970, passim. ISBN 3-87473-000-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of death according to Uwe Puschner (ed.): Handbook on the “völkisch movement” 1871-1918 . Saur, Munich 1999, p. 966.
  2. ↑ a b Lohalm 1970, p. 354.
  3. ↑ Lohalm 1970, pp. 70f.
  4. ↑ Lohalm 1970, p. 102.
  5. ↑ Lohalm 1970, p. 93.
  6. ↑ Lohalm 1970, p. 96f.
  7. ↑ Lohalm 1970, p. 421.
  8. ↑ Lohalm 1970, p. 266.
  9. ↑ Lohalm 1970, pp. 382f.
  10. ↑ Lohalm 1970, p. 200.
  11. ↑ "I would be delighted if the murder of Rathenau would bring about a rapprochement and an adjustment of the differences that existed in the German-ethnic camp. That would be an infinitely great gain. "; quoted from Walter Jung: Ideological prerequisites, content and goals of foreign policy programs and propaganda in the German-Volkish movement of the early years of the Weimar Republic: the example of the German-Volkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund . University of Göttingen 2001, p. 411, note 2248.
  12. ↑ Lohalm 1970, pp. 269f, 280, 427f.
  13. ↑ Lohalm 1970, p. 270.
  14. ↑ Wolfgang Malanowski: My weapon is called Adolf Hitler . In: Der Spiegel . No. 37 , 1987, pp. 202, 205, 208, 209 ( online - Sept. 7, 1987 ).
  15. ↑ Patrick Sahle: Excerpt from BIOWEIL ( memento of February 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), February 8, 2000.
  16. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-h.html
  17. ↑ Helmut Heiber : "Joseph Goebbels and his editors", in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 9 (1961), issue 1, p. 68 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Wiegershaus, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Dilldorf near Kupferdreh
DATE OF DEATH 1934