Otto Fitzner

Otto Fitzner (born January 4, 1888 in Laurahütte (Upper Silesia) , † probably 1945 ) was a German engineer, mine director and military manager in Silesia.

Life

Otto Fitzner was the son of the entrepreneur and councilor Wilhelm Fitzner. He completed his studies at the Universities of Breslau and the University of Greifswald as well as the Technical Universities of Berlin and Aachen, which he completed in 1913 as a mountain trainee. In 1911 he became active in the Corps Pomerania Greifswald with Karl von Behr and Ernst Stampe . In the First World War he last served as a fighter pilot under Hermann Göring . After the war he fought in the Freikorps the Silesian Uprisings . After taking his exam as a mining assessor in 1920, he worked in ore and coal mining. In Kattowitz he was technical director at Giesches Erben , the largest German zinc company, from 1925 .

In 1931 he joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party and the Sturmabteilung . From June 1933 to July 1934 he was chairman of the German metal ore mines. In 1935 he became head of the Silesian Chamber of Commerce and President of the Wroclaw Chamber of Commerce and Industry . When the attack on Poland began in September 1939, when the attack on Poland began , he was appointed military economist , and he was appointed special representative of the chief of civil administration (Army Group South) in Eastern Upper Silesia . On October 9, 1939, Adolf Eichmann and his colleague Rolf Günther received support for the planned deportations of Jews from Katowice and the surrounding area from him and from the chief of staff of the Border Guard Section Command 3, Major General Otto von Knobelsdorff .

He had been head of the non-ferrous metals business group from July 1934 and was the only one to represent it in the Senate of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science (KWG) since 1937 . With Gerhardt Preuschen , he ensured that the KWG established the Institute for Agricultural Labor Science in Wroclaw in 1940 . In March 1941 he became regional economic advisor to the NSDAP for Lower Silesia .

Fitzner was Eduard Schulte's representative and a close friend of Karl Hanke's . His wife was Danish; he named his sons Ruthard and Amer after the heroes of Nordic legends. He is said to have died in the battle for Breslau . The time, place and circumstances of his death are not known.

literature

• Rüdiger Hachtmann : Science Management in the "Third Reich" . 2, Wallstein-Verl., Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0108-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Metallwirtschaft, Metallwissenschaft, Metalltechnik , Volume 17, G. Lüttke Verlag, 19, 1938, p. 18
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 53/613.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Rüdiger Hachtmann: Science Management in the Third Reich
4. ↑ Document 19, in: The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 , Volume 3, pp. 118f.
5. ↑ Ulrike Kohl: The Presidents of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in National Socialism (2001).
6. ↑ Eduard Schulte (Holocaust Encyclopedia)
7. ↑ Malgorzata Szejnert, The Black Garden, Potsdam 2015, p. 243