Max Dietze

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Max Dietze (* 1897 in Sehma ; † May 27, 1940 in Les Amusoires ) was a German local politician of the NSDAP . From 1934 to 1940 he was first mayor of Annaberg in the Saxon Ore Mountains .

Life

Dietze confessed to National Socialism at an early stage and in 1925 was one of the founders of the NSDAP local group in Annaberg. He tried particularly successfully to recruit members from the farmers in the surrounding areas. In 1929 he was elected to the Annaberg city council. In 1932 he became head of the city council and in August 1934 he was appointed 1st mayor of Annaberg. He held this office, which was also the chairman of the theater department, until his death in 1940. After he had already done military service in 1939, he fell in Belgium during World War II .

In 1938 he played a decisive role in the fact that the 16 Jews who remained in Annaberg , who used the prayer room of the Israelite religious community in the rear building of Buchholzer Strasse 17 until 1935/36 , were expelled or deported to the extermination camps . He allowed the Jewish cemetery to be destroyed and leveled in 1940.

literature

  • Burdens of a dictatorial past , 2006, p. 115ff.

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.annaberger.info/Lokales/13_Judenpogrom/13_judenpogrom.html