Fritz Scheuermann (lawyer)

Fritz Scheuermann (born June 8, 1887 in Strasbourg ; † unknown) was a German lawyer and the first president of the Reichsfilmkammer at the time of National Socialism .

Life

Scheuermann, whose father was a secret government advice, studied after completing his schooling law . He then received his doctorate as Dr. Jur. From 1924 was Scheuermann as Councilor in the Ministry of Transportation operates and from 1925 as a lawyer.

After the seizure of power by the Nazis Scheuermann was from June 1933 the Supervisory Board of Filmkreditbank ago, pre-financed the films. In November 1933, Scheuermann was appointed the first President of the newly created Reichsfilmkammer by Joseph Goebbels . In this function, Scheuermann was also the founder of the Reichsfilmarchiv , which was established at the end of January 1934 and which was incorporated into the Reichsfilmkammer.

Scheuermann resigned from his position as President of the Reichsfilmkammer in mid-October 1935 after he had been denounced as a so-called non - Aryan , legal advisor for Jews and as a Freemason . His successor as President of the Reichsfilmkammer was on October 18, 1935 at Goebbels Oswald Lehnich .

Nothing is known about his further life.

literature

Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 .

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Ernst Klee: The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 472.
^ Joseph Wulf : Theater and Film in the Third Reich. A documentation, Ullstein Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-548-33031-2 , pp. 324–326.
↑ Reinhard Bollmus: D as office Rosenberg and his opponents - studies on the power struggle in the National Socialist system of rule . Stuttgart 1970, 2nd edition, Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, p. 79.
↑ chroniknet - entry October 18, 1935

personal data
SURNAME	Scheuermann, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and first president of the Reichsfilmkammer
DATE OF BIRTH	June 8, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH	Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH	20th century

[Klee472-1] A ^b Ernst Klee: The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 472.

[2] Joseph Wulf : Theater and Film in the Third Reich. A documentation, Ullstein Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-548-33031-2 , pp. 324–326.

[3] Reinhard Bollmus: D as office Rosenberg and his opponents - studies on the power struggle in the National Socialist system of rule . Stuttgart 1970, 2nd edition, Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, p. 79.

[4] roniknet - entry October 18, 1935