Herbert Wild (politician)

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William Herbert Wild (* 26. March 1886 in Idar ; † 17th December 1969 in Idar-Oberstein ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and President of the Government in the Free State of Oldenburg belonging part of the country Birkenfeld .

Life

Herbert Wild came from an old Idar family active in the gemstone trade and grew up as the son of the businessman Karl August Wild (1851-1911) and his wife Emilie nee. Becker up. After secondary school, he learned the trade of businessman and gemstone cutter . In these two professions he worked in the United States from 1905 to 1909 and then in Brazil until 1914 . When the First World War broke out , he returned to the German Reich and fought as a lieutenant in the Landwehr until the end of the war . He then worked as a gemstone dealer in Idar, where he soon became actively involved in political life.

From 1923 to 1928 Wild headed the DNVP in Idar. In 1928 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 100.388) and founded the Birkenfeld regional association , whose undisputed leader Wild became within a very short time. He was also a member of Idar's municipal council. Under his leadership, the regional association used marches and bloody hall battles, in which Wild himself participated, in order to terrorize and intentionally intimidate their political opponents.

As a representative of the NSDAP he sat in the Oldenburg state parliament from 1931 to 1933 . After the National Socialists came to power in the Free State of Oldenburg, Wild became Oldenburg State Commissioner for Birkenfeld on October 21, 1932, local district leader and, as the successor to the deposed Walther Dörr, from 1933 to 1937 Oldenburg Government President in the Birkenfeld region. For this assumption of office, the law had to be changed afterwards, because Wild was not - as required by law - a fully qualified lawyer. Still rude in his demeanor, Wild was convicted of bodily harm as the highest official in the region in 1936 .

When the Greater Hamburg Law came into force on January 28, 1937 , the Birkenfeld region became a Prussian district on April 1, 1937 in exchange for Wilhelmshaven . Wild then lost his position as district president, but was appointed district administrator on the same day . However, because of this appointment, he had to resign from the office of district leader . He was inherited in this position by Ernst Diedenhofen , and the two became bitter opponents. Wild described Diedenhofen as a “little dictator”. In order to force him out of office, Wild finally became district leader of Birkenfeld again from 1943 until the end of the war.

Wild was interned after the Second World War and remained in custody until April 1949. In his denazification process in 1951 he was classified as the “main victim”. Wild was no longer allowed to exercise public office and lost all legal rights to a state pension. The state of Rhineland-Palatinate later softened this judgment. In 1957, a case was opened against him for a crime against humanity : In 1944, the teacher Georg Maus in Idar-Oberstein was sentenced to two years in prison for quoting the Bible (“ Love your enemies ”). The school councilor died while in prison. The initially accused stated that he had acted on Wild's orders and therefore reported him. However, the trial ended in an acquittal for lack of evidence.

literature

  • Hans Friedl: Wild, Herbert Wilhelm. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 795 ( online ).
  • Franz Maier: Biographical organization manual of the NSDAP and its structures in the area of ​​today's state of Rhineland-Palatinate (=  publications of the commission of the state parliament for the history of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . No. 28 ). 2nd Edition. Zarrentin v. Hase & Koehler, Mainz 2009, ISBN 978-3-7758-1408-9 , pp. 503-504 .
  • Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 819 f .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Yearbook for West German State History . No. 29 . Self-published by the State Archives Administration Rhineland-Palatinate, 2003, p. 336 .
personal data
SURNAME Wild, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wild, Wilhelm Herbert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP)
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Idar
DATE OF DEATH 17th December 1969
Place of death Idar-Oberstein