Josef Wasmer

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Josef Wasmer

Josef Wasmer (born April 2, 1902 in Säckingen ; † May 30, 1934 between Unadingen and Löffingen ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and SA leader .

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The son of a forest warden attended elementary and secondary school in Säckingen. Between 1917 and 1919 Wasmer was trained at a non-commissioned school and later at a non-commissioned school. After the end of the First World War Wasmer fought with the 3rd Courland Infantry Regiment belonging to the Iron Division in the Baltic States . He then briefly belonged to the 2nd Marine Brigade in 1920 . In 1921 Wasmer joined the Reichswehr . Initially with the Rifle Regiment 42, he attended the Army College for Administration and Economics from 1924, which he finished in 1930 with the degree for the middle upper service. In 1931 he left the Reichswehr. Wasmer was married; the marriage remained childless.

Wasmer joined the NSDAP in 1931; in the SA he was promoted to Standartenführer in July 1932 . After the transfer of power to the National Socialists, on March 6, 1933, together with Hanns Ludin, he ordered the hoisting of the swastika flag at Freiburg City Hall . From March 1933 until the dissolution of this body in the autumn of the same year, Wasmer was a member of the Baden state parliament . He then sat from November 1933 until his death in May 1934 as a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for constituency 32 (Baden) . He was also a city councilor in Freiburg im Breisgau since 1933 . Wasmer was promoted to Oberführer in the SA in May 1933 . From August of that year he led SA Brigade 54 "Baden-Süd".

Wasmer died in a car accident in May 1934. Herbert Kraft moved up for him in the Reichstag. After his death, a “party-driven heroization” began, in which comparisons were made with Albert Leo Schlageter and Horst Wessel . The Mayor of Freiburg, Franz Kerber (NSDAP), described Wasmer as the “best man in Upper Baden”. The posthumous idealization of "one of the best sons of the Baden people" is considered proven. SA and SS men said goodbye at the staged funeral ceremony, and Prince zu Fürstenberg, Max Egon II , paid tribute to "his dead friend" At the scene of the accident, a memorial stone was erected on the first day of his death, which is still standing today. In addition, an SA aid camp in Freiburg bore his name. From 1935 to 1945 a street in Freiburg-Littenweiler was named after him, and as part of the denazification it became Kirner-Straße.

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 , p. 709 f .
  • Hans-Georg Merz: Wasmer, Josef. In: Fred L. Sepaintner (Ed.): Badische Biographien Volume 5, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-17-018976-X , p. 289 f. ( online )
  • Jörg Waßmer: A Nazi memorial stone on the roadside. In: Friedemann Kawohl (Ed.): Remembering and forgetting. Stories from memorial sites in the Schwarzwald-Baar-Heuberg region. Donaueschingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-7883-0892-6 , pp. 199-214.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HG. Merz: Wasmer. 2005, p. 290.
  2. ↑ Quoted by HG. Merz: Wasmer. 2005, p. 290.
  3. ^ Badische Zeitung: Löffingen: History: What is the story behind the "Nazi stone" on the B 31 - badische-zeitung.de . ( badische-zeitung.de [accessed on November 18, 2016]).
  4. ↑ J. Waßmer: A Nazi memorial stone. 2015, pp. 206f.
personal data
SURNAME Wasmer, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR and SA leader
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Säckingen
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1934
Place of death between Unadingen and Löffingen