Fritz Plattner

Friedrich "Fritz" Plattner (born February 4, 1901 in Karlsruhe ; † February 10, 1960 there ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

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After attending elementary school , Plattner joined the Reichspost. Later he attended several courses at the commercial college and an advanced training course at the political science institute of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster .

In 1918 Plattner joined the Reserve Infantry Regiment 109 as a war volunteer. After the end of the war he worked again in the postal service until 1920, after which he worked as a secretary for the Christian factory and transport workers' association until 1922. In 1922 he switched to a commercial profession.

From 1931 to March 1938, Plattner was a full-time functionary for the NSDAP, of which he had been a member since 1923 ( membership number 9605). In 1933 he was regional chairman for the south-west and Gau plant cell manager of Baden. During the time of the Weimar Republic , Plattner was tried several times for insulting leading politicians of the republic such as Joseph Wirth . Plattner had made the following claim about the 1930 Hague Conference :

“During a back and forth between the delegations on the sanctions question, the English Chancellor of the Exchequer Snowden had proposed a resolution that a new occupation of German territories by France would only be possible with the prior consent of the Allied opposing parties. Dr. Wirth raised and declared that he would grant France the right to occupy the area without the consent of the other treaty powers. Snowden then declared: Gentlemen, I cannot be German like the Germans and hereby withdraw my application ”.

As a street fighter, Plattner was seriously injured in an argument in Neulussheim .

As a public official, Plattner was a member of the district council of Karlsruhe from 1930 to 1933 and of the administrative board of the district nursing home in Hub until 1937. He also published the monthly Der Betriebs-Stürmer . In Freiburg, the building of the NSDAP district leadership was on Schwabentorstrasse. 2 named after him (Fritz-Plattner-Haus).

From March 1933 to May 1945 Plattner was a member of the NSDAP for constituency 32 (Baden) in the Reichstag. He was considered a favorite of the Gauleiter of Baden, Robert Wagner, and was known for his brutal crackdown on political opponents. When the free trade unions were broken up in 1933, for example, he did not hesitate to arrest family members of wanted trade union leaders who he wanted to force them to return, as was the case with Gustav Schulenburg . After he had worked as district chairman of the German Labor Front in Gau Baden until 1938 , Plattner moved to the Baden-Württemberg State Insurance Institution, now known as the Deutsche Rentenversicherung Baden-Württemberg , as a senior councilor , where he pushed the agency to focus on racist and ethnic goals.

After the war, Plattner was classified by the Karlsruhe Chamber of Arbitration in 1948 as the “main offender” and sentenced to six years in a labor camp. In addition, the confiscation of his property was ordered. The chamber ruled that he had “done all his might to ensure that Hitler succeeded in establishing his tyranny”. Nevertheless, out of consideration for his poor health, he was released from prison in 1950. Until his death in 1960 he earned his living as a traveling salesman.

literature

Christoph Wehner: The state insurance institutions of Baden and Württemberg in the “Third Reich”. Personnel policy, administration and pension practice 1933–1945 . German Pension Insurance Baden-Württemberg. Karlsruhe 2017, ISBN 978-3-9818343-0-7 , pp. 28–29, 92–93 and p. 108 (short biography)

Web links

Fritz Plattner in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

^ Federal archives holdings R 43 I / 1454, pp. 186–187.
^ Entry in the Reichstag Handbook from 1938.
^ Christoph Wehner: The state insurance institutions Baden and Württemberg in the "Third Reich". Personnel policy, administration and pension practice 1933–1945 . German Pension Insurance Baden-Württemberg. Karlsruhe 2017, pp. 28–29 and p. 108.
^ Christoph Wehner: The state insurance institutions Baden and Württemberg in the "Third Reich". Personnel policy, administration and pension practice 1933–1945 . German Pension Insurance Baden-Württemberg. Karlsruhe 2017, pp. 92–93 and p. 108.

personal data
SURNAME	Plattner, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Plattner, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	February 4, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH	Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH	February 10, 1960
Place of death	Karlsruhe

[1] Federal archives holdings R 43 I / 1454, pp. 186–187.

[2] Entry in the Reichstag Handbook from 1938.

[3] Christoph Wehner: The state insurance institutions Baden and Württemberg in the "Third Reich". Personnel policy, administration and pension practice 1933–1945 . German Pension Insurance Baden-Württemberg. Karlsruhe 2017, pp. 28–29 and p. 108.

[4] Christoph Wehner: The state insurance institutions Baden and Württemberg in the "Third Reich". Personnel policy, administration and pension practice 1933–1945 . German Pension Insurance Baden-Württemberg. Karlsruhe 2017, pp. 92–93 and p. 108.