Fritz Schuberth

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Passport photo of Fritz Schuberth with his signature, 1930

Georg Konrad Friedrich Schuberth (born July 28, 1897 in Kulmbach ; † February 16, 1977 there ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and SS-Oberführer .

Life

Schuberth broke off attending secondary school in 1912 to work in his parents' company after an accident with his father. Until 1916 he completed an agricultural apprenticeship there for fruit growing and poultry farming. From April 1916 to 1918 he took part in the First World War. After his release with the rank of private in the reserve, he took over his parents' property in July 1920.

In May 1925 Schuberth joined the NSDAP ( membership number 5526). Hans Schemm , who remained connected to Schuberth until his death in March 1935, played an important role as a political foster father : in 1927 Schuberth became a local group leader, in 1928 district leader and speaker in the Gau Bayerische Ostmark , and in 1932 he advanced to district leader.

In addition to the party functions, Schuberth held local political offices: In November 1929 he became a member of the Kulmbach city council for his party. After the Nazis stormed the Kulmbach town hall on March 9, 1933, Schuberth served as provisional mayor of the town until October 1933, after which he was the town's honorary first mayor until the end of the Nazi regime. As a local politician, he not only tried to upgrade the city of Kulmbach in terms of tourism, the Kulmbacher Beer Week " and the German Tin Figure Museum on the Plassenburg , but also wanted to convert the castle into a" Kulturwarte Franconia ". For this purpose a NS became in July 1933 -Landesführererschule established on the Plassenburg, which two years later was expanded into the nationwide "training castle of the NSDAP." Since November 1936, additional training courses have been held by the Organization Todt (OT), in which technicians, engineers and road builders planned the infrastructure projects of the Reich. Fritz Todt himself was a regular speaker at the events.

Fritz Schuberth in the beautiful courtyard of the Plassenburg, 1935

In April 1932 Schuberth was elected to the Bavarian state parliament , but resigned the mandate after a few months when he received a mandate in the Reichstag in July 1932 . He remained a member of the Reichstag even after the National Socialist seizure of power until the end of the war in 1945.

The breakthrough to one of the most influential politicians in Northern Bavaria came through Schuberth's commitment to ailing agriculture, of which he became the most important advocate: through the institution of the Upper Franconian Chamber of Farmers, he became an agricultural Gaufach advisor in 1932, and in 1934 the regional farmers 'leader of the Bavarian State Farmers' Union. In March 1934 he was appointed State Secretary for Agriculture at the suggestion of the Bavarian Prime Minister Ludwig Siebert . He resigned from this position on March 15, 1940 because of the dispute over suitable agricultural and subsidy programs, which he carried out with Reich Minister Walter Darré .

Schuberth belonged to the Allgemeine Schutzstaffel (membership number 260.750): In 1934 he became SS-Sturmbannführer , 1935 SS-Standartenführer and 1942 SS-Oberführer without area.

Of his numerous club activities, those of the club leader of the Friends of Plassenburg and the chairman of the local horticultural association are the most important.

One day before Kulmbach was liberated by the 71st US Infantry Division on April 13, 1945, Schuberth and his family fled Kulmbach and hid in a mill in Guttenberger Hammer near the Tannenwirtshaus. On May 23, he was tracked down and arrested by the Counter Intelligence Corps . After a three-year odyssey through the internment camps in Hersbruck, Plattling, Langwasser and Regensburg, Schuberth was released in September 1948. In the subsequent arbitration chamber proceedings in his hometown, he was classified as a "person who through position and activity significantly promoted the tyranny of the NSDAP" in Group II ("incriminated"). A complaint by Schuberth against the decision was rejected by the Chamber of Appeal in Bamberg (August 17, 1949). Until his death, Schuberth lived largely socially isolated and politically celibate on his Reut ("iceberg") on the northern slope of the Kulmbacher Plassenburg.

Honors

literature

  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
  • Wolfgang Schoberth: Fritz Schuberth - from the "iceberg" to the cabinet table. The rise and fall of an influential National Socialist. In: All about the Plassenburg, studies on the history of the town of Kulmbach and its castle. Ed. Friends of Plassenburg eV Kulmbach, Naila 2003, ISBN 3-925162-21-6

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SURNAME Schuberth, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schuberth, Georg Konrad Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Kulmbach
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1977
Place of death Kulmbach