Hansjörg Maurer

Hansjörg Maurer , also known as Hans Georg Maurer and Hans Maurer (born October 20, 1891 in Jettenbach am Inn , † December 30, 1959 in Euerdorf ) was a German editor and veterinarian.

Life and activity

Maurer (second from right) as a member of Hitler's personal bodyguard (around 1925). Also in the picture: Julius Schaub , Julius Schreck and Edmund Schneider (putschist) .

Maurer was a son of the master brewer Georg Maurer and his wife Maria, b. Heider. After attending school, Maurer studied veterinary medicine at the University of Regensburg . From 1914 Maurer took part in the First World War as a veterinarian .

In the period after the war, Maurer began to get involved in circles of the radical political right in Bavaria: In the early years of the Weimar Republic, for example, he was one of the leading propagandists and organizers of the German National Guard in Lower Bavaria.

From 1919 until the newspaper was acquired by the NSDAP in 1920, Maurer was editor-in-chief of the newspaper Völkischer Beobachter, which appeared in Munich . In December 1920 he was replaced in this position by Hugo Machhaus . Maurer then remained in the newspaper's staff. While he drew as "Hansjörg Maurer" as part of his journalistic activities, he otherwise used the name "Hans Maurer" or "Hans Georg Maurer".

At the end of 1920 Maurer became a member of the NSDAP. From May 1923 he belonged to the Adolf Hitler raid , a personal bodyguard of the NSDAP chief organized under paramilitary conditions. November 1923 took part in the Hitler putsch in Munich.

In April 1924 Maurer was sentenced to fifteen months imprisonment, with the prospect of probation after serving a few months of his sentence, due to his participation in the putsch together with thirty-seven other members of the shock troop. He spent his imprisonment with Hitler and twenty-five other coup participants at the Landsberg Fortress .

On April 18, 1925, Maurer joined the newly founded NSDAP (membership number 76). In addition, he became a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS), which was set up for the first time at that time , with which he participated in Hitler's closest personal protection in 1925/1926. At this time he was again making a living as an employee of the Völkischer Beobachter . After arguments with Max Amann , Maurer left the service of the newspaper. In addition, Maurer announced his resignation from the party on August 24, 1926.

In 1933, Maurer became an editor at the Bayerische Staatszeitung . After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , Maurer again applied for membership in the NSDAP on March 31, 1933, this time under the name "Hans Georg Maurer", into which he was now accepted with the number 1,724,803. At the instigation of the office of the Reich Treasurer of the NSDAP, where it was discovered at that time that Hans Georg Maurer was identical to Hansjörg Maurer, Maurer was expelled from the party again at the end of 1934.

In later years he retired from journalism and returned to his old profession as a veterinarian.

After the end of the Second World War , Maurer was employed by the Americans as a district veterinarian in Hammelburg in 1945 . He resigned from this office on January 25, 1946.

literature

• Winfried Schmidt: "... was extremely cheeky against the Führer ..." The editor-in-chief and later veterinarian Hansjörg Maurer and his Würzburg political diary pages from 1936 and 1937. Karlstadt 1999.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hansjörg Maurer in the catalog of the German National Library