Max Koeglmaier

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Max Köglmaier (born April 20, 1902 in Munich , † August 25, 1972 there ) was a German Nazi functionary and SA leader , most recently with the rank of SA group leader .

Life

After his father had been shot on May 2, 1919 in the course of the conflict over the Munich Soviet Republic , Köglmaier had to end his school career at the Luitpold-Gymnasium in Munich for economic reasons before taking his Abitur . Köglmaier, who had been a member of the Munich vigilante group himself from the beginning of May 1919, was employed in the finance department of Munich University from August 1919 to March 1933 and attended law lectures there from 1922 to 1924, among other things.

Köglmaier joined the SA in 1921 and took part in the Hitler putsch with this organization in November 1923 . The Nazi Party , he joined again after party ban 1925th In addition to his part-time activities for the SA, he became local group leader for the party in 1929 in Giesing and in 1930 district / district leader in Munich-East. From 1932 he was briefly deputy Gauleiter of the Munich-Upper Bavaria district. For the NSDAP he appeared as an imperial speaker .

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he was brought to the Ministry of the Interior in March 1933 by the Gauleiter and Minister of the Interior, Adolf Wagner , where he held a key position as the latter's first adjutant and head of the personal staff. Köglmaier, who was a member of the Munich City Council from January 1934, was also given the post of Wagner's personal advisor in January 1935. In 1935 he was promoted to government councilor, in 1936 to senior government councilor and in March 1937 to state secretary in the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior. Köglmaier was proposed as a supplementary election for the Reichstag in April 1938, but was not elected to the National Socialist Reichstag .

During the Second World War he was promoted to SA group leader and was a member of the UFA supervisory board from 1942 . From 1942 to 1943 he was an honorary judge at the People's Court , where he sat at the Scholl siblings' trial. In the spring of 1944, Köglmaier resigned from the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior and, after a period of waiting , acted as President of the Bavarian Insurance Chamber from summer 1944 .

After the war, Köglmaier was until 1948 in the Allied internment. Immediately after his release, he was denazified as a victim and sentenced to three years in a labor camp and confiscated his property. Then he was an authorized signatory in a Munich company.

literature

  • Helmut M. Hanko: Local politics in the "capital of the movement" 1933-1935. Between “revolutionary” transformation and administrative continuity. In: Martin Broszat , Elke Fröhlich , Anton Grossmann (ed.): Bavaria in the Nazi era. Volume III: Domination and Society in Conflict. Oldenbourg, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-486-42381-9 , pp. 443-484.

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personal data
SURNAME Köglmaier, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Nazi functionary and SA leader
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1972
Place of death Munich