Fritz Wehmeier
Fritz Wehmeier (born November 15, 1897 in Pollhagen , Schaumburg-Lippe , † April 4, 1945 in Ostercappeln ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).
Life
After attending primary school , Fritz Wehmeier hired as a cabin boy on deep-sea fishing ships. In the First World War , in which he was awarded the sea pilot badge, he took part with the first sea pilot division.
After the First World War, Wehmeier worked as a laborer and as a worker in the hammer mill at Henrichshütte near Hattingen an der Ruhr. In the 1920s he joined the NSDAP. As district administrator of the NSBO in Emden , he took over his first party office in 1930. Later he also appeared for the party as a Gauredner .
After 1933 Fritz Wehmeier took over tasks as regional training administrator of the DAF , head of the regional school Weser-Ems and regional inspector of the regional Weser-Ems. He was later appointed provisional district manager in Osnabrück , where he stayed until 1945.
From March 1936 until the end of Nazi rule in spring 1945, Wehmeier was a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for constituency 14 (Weser-Ems) .
Shortly before the occupation of Osnabrück by the British armed forces, Wehmeier tried on April 3, together with Osnabrück's Lord Mayor Erich Gaertner and the former district leader Willi Münzer, to flee via the highway to Bremen. On the outskirts of Osnabrück they broke into a farm on which a white flag was hoisted, which was punished with death in the sphere of influence of the National Socialists. One of them shot the farmer Anna Daumeyer, who had accused herself of raising the flag to protect her son. The murder was never atoned for. In Ostercappeln near Osnabrück , the group was caught in the machine gun fire of British tanks: while sitting in the car, Wehmeier was seriously injured by a shot in the stomach and died soon after in the Meller hospital in Ostercappeln.
In 1995, parts of the population of Ostercappeln demanded the exhumation and reburial of Wehmeier's corpse, as they felt that they could not expect their ancestors to find their final resting place next to a criminal.
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 .
- Erich Stockhorst : 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . 2nd Edition. Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 .
Web links
- Fritz Wehmeier in the database of members of the Reichstag
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.noz.de/lokales/osnabrueck/artikel/249292/ohne-gegenwehr-wurde-osnabruck-besetzt NOZ on May 8, 2005: "Osnabrück was occupied without any resistance"; accessed on March 30, 2018
- ↑ Jann Weber: Murdered because of a white flag. In: Osnabrück newspaper June 20, 2009.
- ↑ Ute Müller-Detert: Osnabrück newspapers between 1933 and 1949 , 2005, p. 32.
- ^ NDR: "My end of the war" Contemporary witnesses from Lower Saxony remember , 2005, p. 62.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wehmeier, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (NSDAP), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pollhagen , Schaumburg-Lippe |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 1945 |
| Place of death | Ostercappeln |