Fritz Lechler

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Karl Friedrich Lechler , called "Fritz Lechler" (born January 9, 1912 in Augsburg , † 1989 ) was a German SS leader .

Life

Lechler, the son of a telegraph construction worker, completed a three-year commercial apprenticeship in a gear factory in Augsburg after finishing primary school in 1926. Lechler then worked as an assistant in his training company until 1934.

Lechler became a member of the NSDAP at the beginning of February 1931 ( membership number 404.975) and in April 1931 the SS (SS number 7.729). In the SS, Lechler rose to the position of SS-Obersturmbannführer in the Waffen SS in June 1944 .

From January 1934 Lechler was a full-time employee of the SS administrative office and was involved in the clothing system of the SS and SS disposable troops. After the establishment of the Main Office for Administration and Economics (HAVW) in April 1939, Lechler became SS leader and head of department there. From the beginning of January 1941, Lechler was head of the Waffen-SS clothing factory in Dachau . His deputy there was Felix Krug , who succeeded him as head of the clothing factory in Dachau in early February 1942.

From the beginning of November 1941 to the end of January 1942, Lechler was assigned to the SS Reich Division for combat operations in the German-Soviet War . After the establishment of the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office (WVHA), Lechler was there from the beginning of February 1942 until the end of the Second World War Main Office Manager of Office B II (clothing industry) of Office Group B and also Office Head of Office W VI (Textile and Leather Processing) . Lechler was also the managing director of the " Deutsche Gesellschaft für Textil- und Lederverarbeitung mbh " (Texled) founded in 1940, which maintained workshops for clothing production in the Ravensbrück and Dachau concentration camps . Female concentration camp prisoners had to do forced labor in these clothing workshops. Among other things, concentration camp inmate clothing and uniforms for the Waffen SS were made there.

After the end of the war, Lechler lived in Munich and was never prosecuted.

literature

  • Walter Naasner (Hrsg.): SS-Wirtschaft und SS-Verwaltung - The SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt and the economic ventures under its supervision , Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1998, publications of the Federal Archives: 45a, ISBN 3-7700-1603-3 .
  • Jan Erik Schulte : Forced Labor and Extermination: The Economic Empire of the SS. Oswald Pohl and the SS Economic Administration Main Office 1933-1945. Paderborn 2001, ISBN 3-506-78245-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Walter Naasner (Ed.): SS-Wirtschaft und SS-Verwaltung , Düsseldorf 1998, p. 343f.
  2. ^ A b Jan Erik Schulte: Forced Labor and Destruction: The Economic Empire of the SS. Oswald Pohl and the SS Economic Administration Main Office 1933-1945. Paderborn 2001, p. 470.
  3. ↑ Walter Naasner (Ed.): SS-Wirtschaft und SS-Verwaltung , Düsseldorf 1998, p. 177f.
personal data
SURNAME Lechler, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lechler, Karl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH 1989