Georg Währer

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Georg Währer

Georg Friedrich Asmus Währer (born July 21, 1893 in Lübeck , † August 9, 1941 near Buschkowo , Soviet Union ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ), legal scholar and SA leader .

Life

Währer attended the Johanneum zu Lübeck from 1899 to 1911 and then studied law and economics at the universities of Heidelberg, Königsberg and Kiel until 1914. In August 1914 he interrupted his studies to take part in the First World War as a volunteer . He was in the Field Artillery Regiment 60, became a reserve lieutenant in 1916 and later a battery commander. During the war he was wounded four times. In 1919 he joined the Eulenburg Freikorps and made up his legal trainee exam. From 1919 to 1920 he worked as a trainee lawyer in Lübeck. In March 1920 he took part in the Kapp Putsch in Schwerin. Währer received his doctorate in law in 1921 and then worked until 1926 at the Continentalen Bank- und Handels-AG in Mainz and Hamburg as a legal counsel.

Act

Währer joined the Völkisch Social Block in 1924 and became the leader of the Frontbann in Lübeck. In the spring he was a co-founder of the NSDAP ( membership number 6.287) in Lübeck. In the Mecklenburg-Lübeck Gau he was a Gauredner . From 1926 to 1927 he was a trainee lawyer and in 1928 his assessor exam followed. Währer began working as a lawyer in Lübeck in June 1928, and in August he was also a notary. A year later he became leader of the SA storm and in 1930 the SA storm in Lübeck. On July 1, 1932, he was appointed SA Standartenführer . SA Standard 162 was assigned to him, which he presided over until his death. After he only became deputy spokesman for the Lübeck citizenship in 1932, he took over this position in 1933. In 1933 he left the Lübeck citizenship, in whose presidium he was the second deputy spokesman. From March 1936 to 1938 he was a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for constituency 35 . Währer was appointed SA-Oberführer on November 9, 1937 and an honorary member of the Reichsgruppenrat of the NSRB on March 18, 1938 . In the general election in 1938 he was nominated without success. At the beginning of the Second World War he was drafted as a major in the reserve and as a department commander and fell on the Eastern Front in 1941 .

From 1933 until his death in 1941, Währer was a member of the board of directors of the savings and loan fund in Lübeck , from 1934–38 a member of the supervisory board of Commerzbank in Lübeck and from 1933 to 1941 at Lübecker Hypothekenbank.

literature

  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish 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 . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).
  • Jörg Fligge : Lübeck schools in the "Third Reich": a study on the education system in the Nazi era in the context of developments in the Reich area , Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2014, p. 985 ff. ( Biographical notes )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chronicle. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1932/33, No. 6, edition of December 10, 1933, p. 24.
  2. ^ Gerhard Schneider: Lübeck's banking policy through the ages (1898-1978) , Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1979, p. 21
personal data
SURNAME Währer, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Währer, Georg Friedrich Asmus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR, legal scholar and SA leader
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1941
Place of death near Buschkowo , Soviet Union