Fritz Pfotenhauer

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Fritz Pfotenhauer (born March 9, 1885 in Frankenberg / Sa. , † May 20, 1945 in Kreischa ) was a German lawyer and police officer.

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After attending school, Pfotenhauer studied law . During his studies in 1906 he became a member of the Grimensia Leipzig Landsmannschaft . In 1911 he received his doctorate with a thesis on commercial apprenticeship contracts.

Pfotenhauer served as Deputy Police President of Dresden from 1928 . As early as 1927, he can be verified as the head of Department B (Political Department) of the Dresden Police Headquarters.

After the National Socialists came to power , he was taken over by the Secret State Police . He remained deputy police chief of Dresden. Around 1936 he also took over the management of the state police station in Dresden. A report from 1937 states that Pfotenhauer had “made no special contribution to the National Socialist uprising”, but was “capable”, even if “very cautious in his decisions”.

In 1937 Pfotenhauer was employed as a senior councilor in Department II (People's Care) of the Saxon Ministry of the Interior. In this position he was involved in the organization of the killing of the disabled housed in nursing homes in Saxony, which has become known as euthanasia , as a department head of the institution.

Shortly after the end of the Second World War , Pfotenhauer committed suicide.

Fonts

  • The conclusion of the commercial apprenticeship contract according to the law applicable today , 1911. (Dissertation)

literature

  • Hugo Hahn : Fighter against his will. Memories of the regional bishop of Saxony from the church struggle 1933–1945. Ed. And ed. by Georg Prater. Brunnquell-Verlag, Metzingen 1969, p. 272.
  • Thomas Schilter: Inhuman discretion. The National Socialist “euthanasia” killing center in Pirna-Sonnenstein 1940/41 . Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, Leipzig 1999, p. 85.
  • Saxon Memorials Foundation in memory of the victims of political tyranny: Pirna-Sonnenstein. From a sanatorium to a site of Nazi homicidal crimes. Accompanying volume for the permanent exhibition at the Pirna-Sonnenstein Memorial , 2001.

Footnotes

  1. ^ The Saxon special route to Nazi "euthanasia": Symposium from May 15 to 17, 2001 in Pirna-Sonnenstein (=  working group for research into National Socialist "euthanasia" and forced sterilization; reports of the working group . Volume  1 ). Klemm & Oelschläger, 2001, ISBN 3-932577-50-7 , p. 66 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ^ Berthold Ohm and Alfred Philipp (eds.): Directory of addresses of the old men of the German Landsmannschaft. Part 1. Hamburg 1932, p. 172.
  3. ↑ Address Book for Dresden and Suburbs 1929, Part Two, p. 16
  4. ↑ Address Book for Dresden and Suburbs 1926/27, Part Two, p. 16.
personal data
SURNAME Pfotenhauer, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and police officer
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankenberg / Sa.
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1945
Place of death Kreischa