Fritz Hille (politician)

Fritz Hille (born December 3, 1882 in Brandoberndorf , † February 26, 1959 in Gießen ) was a German teacher and politician ( NSDAP ).

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Hille was born the son of a doctor. After graduating from high school in Laubach in 1903 , he did his military service as a one-year volunteer from 1903 to 1904 . This was followed by two years of studying theology in Gießen and from June 1905 to April 1908 working as a primary school teacher in Lich and Lindenstruth . From 1908 to 1911 he studied philology in Giessen and then worked for six months as a trainee teacher at the grammar school in Giessen.

Hille moved to Hildburghausen and worked from April 1912 to September 1933 as a teacher, senior teacher and from 1925 as a teacher at the local teachers' college. This was interrupted by his participation in the First World War from August 1914 until his release in October 1918 due to multiple wounds and permanent paralysis of one arm.

Until 1925 Hille was a member of the ethnic and social bloc in southern Thuringia. From July 16, 1925 to October 22, 1927, he was a member of the NSDAP, followed by re-entry on January 12, 1928 (membership number 10,750). From 1935 to 1943 he was an imperial speaker . From February 1, 1931 he was a member of the National Socialist teachers' association . Hille led the NSDAP parliamentary group in the Hildburghausen city council. From July 31, 1932 to October 14, 1933 he sat as a member of the NSDAP in the Thuringian state parliament . From August 26, 1932 to October 14, 1933 he was President of the State Parliament. From August 20, 1933 to April 12, 1945 he held the title of "State Councilor" of the Thuringian state government.

In October 1933 Hille was transferred to the advanced school in Gotha , which he headed as senior studies director from January 1934. He wanted to turn it into a model school.

On January 10, 1934, Hille joined the SA as an Obertruppführer , until 1942 he was promoted to SA-Oberführer . From April 1938, as a National Socialist fighter and educator, he was one of the four personal representatives of the Minister of Education, Willy Marschler, to support the upper school authorities in the school supervision in Thuringia. In addition, from 1939 to 1945 he was head of the Office for War Victims of the Nazi Gauleitung and Gauobmann of the Nazi war victims' pension .

From May to September 1945 Hille worked as a laborer in agriculture. On August 31, 1945, he was dismissed from school as part of the denazification process . This was followed by internment from October 1, 1945 to June 15, 1948, and the classification as an incriminated person, combined with a sentencing to two years in a labor camp, taking into account internment detention by the Darmstadt Chamber of Justice . From June 1948 he lived as a welfare recipient in Trais-Horloff . At the grace of the Hessian Prime Minister, his pension suspension was initially partially lifted, and from 1958 on completely.

Fritz Hille was granted honorary citizenship of the city of Hildburghausen on November 11, 1933 . The Werra bridge in today's Friedrich-Rückert-Straße was named after him. On October 25, 1946, by order of the District Administrator, the Finance and Administration Committee decided to remove him from the list of honorary citizens.

Hille received, among other things, the Golden Party Badge and the Silver Gauadler .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Bernhard Post, Volker Wahl (Ed.): Thuringia Handbook. Territory, constitution, parliament, government and administration in Thuringia 1920 to 1995 (= publications from Thuringian state archives; 1). Weimar 1999, ISBN 3-7400-0962-4 , p. 591.