Karl Fichtner (politician)

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Karl-Heinz Fichtner , mostly Karl Fichtner , (born March 29, 1906 in Lehe ; † September 8, 1972 in Bremen ) was a German politician and member of the German Party (DP) and the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) in Bremen Citizenship . During the time of National Socialism he was head of the Bremen State Office.

Life

education and profession

After his apprenticeship as a ship merchant, Fichtner worked as a merchant from 1928. From 1936 he was head of the Bremen State Office and the town hall administration. During the Second World War , Fichtner headed the Litzmannstadt plant headquarters from 1940 at the general trust administration. In the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office, Fichtner was deputy head of Office W II from September 1941. After the outbreak of the German-Soviet War , Fichtner was responsible for the SS operations in the sphere of influence of the Higher SS and Police Leader Russia South from autumn 1941 from May 1944 employed in the SS economic department in Italy. Until 1948 she was either a prisoner of war or interned after the war.

After the end of the war, Fichtner moved from Brinkum to Bremen in 1952 and started his own advertising agency. He was married to Annaluise Fichtner.

politics

Fichtner joined the NSDAP in May 1930 (membership number 244.509) and was in the SA from 1930 to 1931 . In May 1931 (other sources May 1934) he became a member of the SS (membership number 8,741). Since April 1936 he was SS-Hauptsturmführer (like captain) and leader of the SS-Sturmbannes Bremen. In 1942 he was demoted to Obersturmführer because of repeated speeding with the company car. In 1944 he was again promoted to SS-Hauptsturmführer in the economic department of the highest SS and police leader (HöSSPF) in Italy.

After the Second World War he was a member of the German Party (DP). In 1964 he was a founding member of the NPD and from 1968 to 1972 deputy state chairman in Bremen and treasurer at the same time.

From 1963 to 1967 he was in the 6th electoral term for the DP and from 1967 to 1971 in the 7th electoral term for the NPD member of the Bremen citizenship.

In 1969, Fichtner did not make it into the German Bundestag as a candidate for the NPD .

literature

  • Reinhard Patemann: Bremische Chronik. 1957–1970 (= publications from the State Archives of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen 41). Bremen State Archive, Bremen 1973, ISBN 3-7961-1655-8 .
  • Jan Erik Schulte : Forced Labor and Extermination. The economic empire of the SS. Oswald Pohl and the SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt 1933–1945. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2001, ISBN 3-506-78245-2 (also: Bochum, Univ., Diss., 1999).
  • Bremische Bürgerschaft (Hrsg.), Karl-Ludwig Sommer: The Nazi past of former members of the Bremische Bürgerschaft. Project study and scientific colloquium (= small writings of the Bremen State Archives. Issue 50). State Archive Bremen, Bremen 2014, ISBN 978-3-925729-72-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Jan Erik Schulte: Forced Labor and Destruction: The Economic Empire of the SS. Oswald Pohl and the SS Economic Administration Main Office 1933–1945. Paderborn 2001, p. 465
  2. ↑ a b List of seniority of the NSDAP Schutzstaffel. As of December 1, 1936, p. 68 f., No. 1534. (JPG; 1.12 MB) In: http://www.dws-xip.pl/reich/biografie/1936/1936.html . Retrieved November 6, 2019 .
  3. ^ Bremische Bürgerschaft (Ed.): The Nazi past of former members of the Bremische Bürgerschaft . P. 71.
personal data
SURNAME Fichtner, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fichtner, Karl-Heinz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Lehe
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1972
Place of death Bremen