Fritz Strauss (District Administrator)

Fritz Strauss, 1933

Fritz Strauss or even Fritz Peter Strauss (* 2. December 1903 in Freiburg , † 13. December 1948 ) was a master tailor and briefly Acting in 1945 District Administrator of the district Karlsruhe and Mayor of Ettlingen .

Live and act

Strauss was born on December 2, 1903 in Freiburg, the son of the businessman Simon Strauss and Anna, née Maier. Strauss and his family were of Jewish faith . In 1919 he graduated from secondary school and began commercial training, which he broke off again. He married for the first time at the age of 23. The marriage, which resulted in a son, was divorced after a year. After training as a master tailor, he opened his own shop in Karlsruhe in 1933 . A short time later he fled to Paris and married Erika from Mannheim in 1934. After the Gestapo lured him back across the border to Germany, he was placed in protective custody in the Kislau concentration camp . After three months he was released after submitting a declaration of loyalty. Strauss was supposed to be deported on February 14, 1945 , but escaped deportation by hiding in the house of Ettlinger Robert Holtz in the forest colony until the end of the war.

In June 1945, Strauss replaced Anton Kaufmann as provisional district administrator for the district of Karlsruhe; Kaufmann was dismissed because of his membership in the NSDAP . In October 1945 Strauss was removed from office by the American military government because of the secret youth sentences he had committed around 1920, and Kaufmann was reinstated. On April 18, 1945 he became mayor of the city of Ettlingen, and until his death in 1948 there were frequent arguments with political opponents, also because opinions on denazification differed greatly.

literature

Wolfram Angerbauer (Red.): The heads of the upper offices, district offices and district offices in Baden-Württemberg from 1810 to 1972 . Published by the working group of the district archives at the Baden-Württemberg district assembly. Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8062-1213-9 , pp. 552 .

Web links

Gundula Axelsson researches the Mayor of Ettlingen Fritz Strauss in the latest news from Baden on July 9, 2020

Individual evidence

^ Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe 521 No. 8562: Strauss, Fritz. Baden-Württemberg State Archive, accessed on June 2, 2020 .
↑ Josef Werner: Karlsruhe: Look into the story No. 86 from March 19, 2010. City of Karlsruhe, accessed on July 9, 2020 .
^ Josef Werner: Karlsruhe 1945: Under swastika, tricolor and stars and stripes. Edited by the Karlsruhe City Archives. Braun, Karlsruhe 1985, p. 166 ( online , PDF; 8.8 MB).
↑ The "Three District Administrator Year". ka-news , October 29, 2005, accessed on June 2, 2020 .
↑ White vest despite a brown past? About dealing with National Socialism in the district of Karlsruhe in the years 1945 - 1948. In: Stadt Rheinstetten (Hrsg.): Official Journal of the City of Rheinstetten . 16th year, no. 42/2017 . Rheinstetten October 19, 2017, p. 14 ( rheinstetten.de [PDF]).

personal data
SURNAME	Strauss, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Strauss, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German district administrator and mayor
DATE OF BIRTH	December 2, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH	December 13, 1948

[1] Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe 521 No. 8562: Strauss, Fritz. Baden-Württemberg State Archive, accessed on June 2, 2020 .

[2] Josef Werner: Karlsruhe: Look into the story No. 86 from March 19, 2010. City of Karlsruhe, accessed on July 9, 2020 .

[3] Josef Werner: Karlsruhe 1945: Under swastika, tricolor and stars and stripes. Edited by the Karlsruhe City Archives. Braun, Karlsruhe 1985, p. 166 ( online , PDF; 8.8 MB).

[4] The "Three District Administrator Year". ka-news , October 29, 2005, accessed on June 2, 2020 .

[5] White vest despite a brown past? About dealing with National Socialism in the district of Karlsruhe in the years 1945 - 1948. In: Stadt Rheinstetten (Hrsg.): Official Journal of the City of Rheinstetten . 16th year, no. 42/2017 . Rheinstetten October 19, 2017, p. 14 ( rheinstetten.de [PDF]).