Otto Marxer

Otto Marxer (born December 27, 1896 in Augsburg , † December 11, 1942 in the Soviet Union ) was a German SA leader , most recently with the rank of SA Obergruppenführer .

Live and act

Youth and Weimar Republic

After attending school, Marxer studied dentistry . From 1914 to 1918 Marxer took part in the First World War as a war volunteer , in which he was awarded the Iron Cross , among other things . In the post-war period he was part of the Epp Freikorps and was involved in the suppression of the Munich Soviet Republic .

After the First World War, Marxer lived in Osnabrück , where he chaired a group that described itself as the “Völkisch-Soziale Movement”, which joined the NSDAP in 1926 . Around the same time he became a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the task force of the Nazi movement. In addition to leading the Osnabrück local branch of the NSDAP, Marxer temporarily published the newspaper NS-Front , which led to a dispute between him and Gauleiter Carl Röver in 1930 . In contrast to his differences with Röver, the relationship with the regional SA chief Viktor Lutze was very good, with whom he formed a kind of rope team, which would benefit him in his later rise. From 1928, Marxer was also a member of the Osnabrück city council.

time of the nationalsocialism

A few weeks after the National Socialists came to power , Viktor Lutze, who had meanwhile taken over the management of the police headquarters in Hanover , appointed Marxer as the first head of the state police station in Osnabrück, which he led until July 26, 1933. In this capacity, in which he was responsible for overseeing all local police authorities and the Bentheim border police station, he played a key role in establishing and consolidating the Nazi dictatorship in the Osnabrück area. In the autumn of the same year Marxer was appointed by Ernst Röhm to succeed Wilhelm Schmid in the Supreme SA leadership in Munich, where he was made head of the SA personnel office. In this position he was from then on largely responsible for the administration of all personnel matters of the SA, such as promotions, transfers, assignments, etc. Marxer remained in this position even after the SA was disempowered and Röhm was murdered on June 30, 1934. This may have been due to the fact that his old friend Lutze Röhm succeeded him in the office of Chief of Staff of the SA and during the purge of the SA leadership von Röhm people probably put his protective hand over Marxer. In the autumn of 1934 he was appointed as "SA group leader and staff leader in the supreme SA leadership".

In 1938 Marxer applied for a mandate for the National Socialist Reichstag on the “List of the Führer for the election of the Greater German Reichstag on April 10, 1938”, but was not elected. In the same year he was promoted to SA group leader.

On September 3, 1938, Marxer, who is described as a "radical and staunch National Socialist", was appointed head of the Lower Saxony savings bank association. To what extent he influenced the business of the association in this position has not yet been researched. A recent article by the Savings Banks Association indicates that it was possibly just a supply post without any major activity on the part of Marxer, and that since 1939, due to his participation in World War II, he had only held this post in a purely nominal manner. During the war he was promoted to SA-Obergruppenführer, the highest rank within the SA hierarchy, with a promotion date of January 30, 1941. Marxer died as a captain in fighting on the Eastern Front in 1942 .

Promotions

• before 1933: SA standard leader
• 1934: SA brigade leader
• 1938: SA group leader
• January 30, 1941: SA Obergruppenführer

Web links

• The short "brown era" of the savings bank association. Dr. Otto Marxer (1896–1942)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life data determined by searching for graves at www.volksbund.de
2. ^ Herbert Wagner : The Gestapo was not alone ... Political social control and state terror in the German-Dutch border area 1929-1945 . Lit, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7448-6 , pp. 182f.