Max Solbrig

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Max Solbrig

Max Solbrig (* 15. October 1889 in Gutenstein , † 4. June 1959 in Darmstadt ) was a full-time SA -Leader, Deputy NSDAP - Gauleiter in the Gau Kurhessen , founding president of the Brothers Grimm-Gesellschaft e. V. (1942) and Gau leader of the German Reich Federation for physical exercises in the Hesse-Nassau district .

Life

Solbrig graduated from a secondary school in Chemnitz, studied in England, became an officer and was a soldier on the Western Front of the First World War from 1914 to 1918 . After 1918 he worked as a commercial clerk, later as an authorized signatory and was dismissed in 1932 because of his membership in the NSDAP and SA, which was followed by a full-time career as an SA and NSDAP functionary from 1933:

In 1932/33 he was SA Standartenführer , from August 1933 to October 1933 SA leader for special use in the staff of the SA Group Hochland, from October 1933 on the staff of the Supreme SA Leader , from January 1, 1934 SA Oberführer , from 1 January 1934 staff leader in the Reichs-SA-Hochschulamt, from May 1, 1935 senior leader with the head of the training system of the SA, 1935/36 with the leadership of the SA-Brigade 47 (Kassel); promoted to SA Brigadefuhrer on November 9, 1935 . In 1936 he was the representative of the Reich Sports Leader for the provinces of Hesse-Nassau and Upper Hesse, and from 1936 to 1938 staff leader (or representative for the management of staff) at the SA group in Berlin-Brandenburg .

On February 1, 1938, Solbrig became Karl Weinrich's deputy in his function as NSDAP Gauleiter in the Kurhessen Gau and held the office until 1945. In September 1938 he replaced the late Wilhelm Georg Schmidt in the National Socialist Reichstag , in which he represented the constituency of Hessen-Nassau until 1945. From September 1939 to May 1941 he was in military service in the Air Force. In 1943 he was promoted to SA group leader.

Solbrig professed to be a believer in God .

The head of the Personnel Office of the NSDAP, Heinrich Walkenhorst , reported in a report from the end of 1943: “The Deputy. Gauleiter Solbrig (54 years old) is judged very unfavorably. I don't know him myself. "

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. 623 .
  • Joachim Lilla: The deputy Gauleiter and the representation of the Gauleiter of the NSDAP in the “Third Reich” (materials from the Federal Archives, issue 13). Wirtschaftsverlag NW, Bremerhaven 2003, ISBN 3-86509-020-6 , p. 89 f.

Individual evidence

  1. Lilla: The Deputy Gauleiter. 2003, p. 12.

Web links

  • Max Solbrig in the database of members of the Reichstag