Lothar Ganser

Lothar Ganser (born January 14, 1908 in Glogau , Prussia , † August 29, 1984 in Hameln ) was a German lawyer and politician ( CDU , NPD ). From 1961 to 1962 he was President of the Association of Reservists of the German Armed Forces .

Life

Lothar Ganser was born in 1908 as the son of a merchant in Silesia . After attending secondary school in Hameln, he first studied at the Georg-August-University of Goettingen and the winter semester 1928 to summer semester 1929 Law at the University of Rostock and in 1937 there with a thesis on the legal nature of the junk contract for Dr. jur. PhD .

He joined the NSDAP in 1936 . Before that he was the military sports leader of the steel helmet and became legal and tax advisor to the German Labor Front (DAF). With reference to his party affiliation, his "combative activity" with the Stahlhelm and his function in the DAF, he tried to take on a shortened trial service in 1937, but this was rejected. After his assessor service , he was taken on as a lawyer in 1937 . In the course of the denazification he stylized himself as an opponent of the system and was classified as “exonerated” in 1946/48, but due to his past he was only re-admitted by the Celle Bar Committee “with considerable reservations”. Ganser justified his party membership with "ruthless political coercion".

After the Second World War he worked as a notary and lawyer in Hameln . Ganser was the regional leader in Lower Saxony for the newly founded Stahlhelm. At a meeting in Detmold in 1955 , he declared: The Stahlhelm “feels called and obliged to free German people from their current almost apathetic condition”. The declared aim was to win the youth back for military service . In this function he also initiated disciplinary proceedings against Paul Lindner, which were referred to the President of the Stahlhelm Field Marshal a. D. Albert Kesselring had sent a postcard that was "inappropriate in form and content". He became a member of the CDU and was a long-time councilor and mayor of the city of Hameln. Twenty minutes before the constituent meeting of the city council in November 1966, he joined the NPD . His political decision came under fire (also in the GDR ) because, in the function of a reserve officer, he had Bundeswehr soldiers and reservists put up NPD posters for election campaign purposes. In June 1967 he was a direct candidate in constituency 41 in the state elections in Lower Saxony and was on the list 6 of 30 in the NPD; his party won 10 seats. He ran unsuccessfully in the 1969 Bundestag election , where his party received 4.3 percent of the vote and thus remained below the five percent hurdle .

Ganser was President of the Association of Reservists of the German Armed Forces (VdRBw) from January 1, 1961 to June 24, 1962, before and afterwards he was Deputy President. His last rank was major in the reserve.

Fonts (selection)

• The legal nature of the junk contract . Tschirner, Hanover 1937 (= Diss. Univ. Rostock, 1937).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Deister and Weser newspaper , September 1, 1984
2. ↑ See the information in Ganser's registry entry in Rostock
3. ^ Deister and Weser newspaper, September 1, 1984
4. ↑ See the entry of Lothar Ganser's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Hinrich Rüping : Lawyers in the Celle district during National Socialism. BWV, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8305-1735-1 , p. 135 f.
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Ganser, Lothar, Dr. In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Gaa to Gymnich] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 349 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 297 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Lothar Ganser . In: Der Spiegel . No. 16 , 1954, pp. 31 ( online ).
8. ↑ Where are the statutes? In: Der Spiegel . No. 20 , 1954, pp. 9-10 ( online ).
9. ↑ ^{a b} Committee for German Unity (ed.): The Federal Republic - a paradise for war criminals. Documents about the penetration of the West German state with militaristic, Nazi and anti-Semitic elements. Committee for German Unity, Berlin 1956, p. 27.
10. ↑ ^{a b} Documentation of the Time , issues 373–384, 1967, p. 79.
11. ↑ Fred H. Richards: The NPD. Alternative or return? (= History and State, Volume 121). Olzog, Munich 1967, p. 71.
12. ^ Anti-Semitism in West Germany. Enemies of Jews and murderers of Jews in the ruling apparatus of the Federal Republic. A documentation of the Association of Jewish Communities in the German Democratic Republic. Association of Jewish Communities in the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1967, p. 28.
13. ^ Associations of those persecuted by the Nazi regime (ed.): The NPD in the mirror of the press (=  series of publications. Issue 11). Associations of those persecuted by the Nazi regime, Frankfurt am Main 1967, p. 41.
14. ↑ Percy Stulz: Problems of imperialist politics and anti-monopoly movement in West Germany after August 13, 1961. In: Scientific journal of the Humboldt University in Berlin. Social and Linguistic Series. Volume 17, Issue 1, Berlin 1968, p. 25.
15. ↑ Werner Hübner: The Society for Wehrkunde: the Society for Wehrkunde and its role in the system of militarization of West Germany (1952–1968) (=  Military History Studies. NF, 13). Deutscher Militärverlag, Berlin 1970, p. 118.
16. ^ The foundation on January 22, 1960 , Reservists Association of the Lower Saxony State Group, accessed on September 10, 2013.
17. ↑ Clemens Range : The tolerated army. 50 years of the Bundeswehr. Translimes Media, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-00-015382-9 , p. 27.