Fritz Grauer

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Friedrich Grauer (called Fritz ) (born September 17, 1904 in Bruchsal ; † August 11, 1942 on the Eastern Front ) was a German civil servant and district administrator.

Life

He was the son of the businessman Gustav Grauer and his wife Berta, nee Seibold. On March 18, 1939, he married the lecturer for household science and economics in Schneidemühl Käthe, née Scheffer. The bride's parents were the writer Dr. Theodor Scheffer and his wife Dora nee Schramm.

Grauer attended the elementary and secondary school in Bruchsal, where he graduated from high school at Easter 1924. He then studied at the universities of Heidelberg, Freiburg, Kiel, Munich and Berlin and graduated with a degree in economics. On December 2, 1930 he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD. From 1929 to 1932 he was a trainee lawyer in Sigmaringen and Frankfurt am Main. After the assessor examination in June 1933 he worked for the Berlin public prosecutor and in the Prussian Ministry of Economics. Then he was a councilor in the district office and in the Tilsit police department and the Tilsit state police. From September 1937 he worked for the Lüneburg government. On July 12, 1939, he took over the position of a district administrator in the Oberlahnkreis and on June 21, 1940 was definitely district administrator there.

Since 1922 he was a member of the Völkischer Jugendbund der "Adler und Falken". In April 1930 he joined the SA and on August 1, 1930 he became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 271.624). He joined the SS on February 15, 1932 (membership number 28,053). There he became Untersturmführer on August 13, 1934 and Hauptsturmführer on April 20, 1937. Awarded both classes of the Iron Cross and the Wound Badge , Grauer fell on August 11, 1942 on the Eastern Front .

literature

  • Thomas Klein: Senior officials in the general administration in the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau and in Waldeck 1867–1945. (= Sources and research on Hessian history, 70; Ed. Hessische Historische Kommission Darmstadt and Historical Commission for Hesse), Darmstadt / Marburg 1988, ISBN 3-88443-159-5 , p. 131.

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personal data
SURNAME Grauer, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grauer, Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative officer, district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruchsal
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1942
Place of death Eastern Front