Otto Weber (politician, 1894)

Otto Weber (born June 26, 1894 in Siegen , † April 2, 1973 in Hanover ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ), Thuringian Minister of Justice and Prussian District President of Erfurt , as well as SS brigade leader .

Life

Weber was born the son of a post office clerk, attended grammar school in Stolp (Western Pomerania) and graduated from high school in Eisenach in 1913 . After beginning his studies at the Universities of Marburg and Leipzig , he registered as a war volunteer in 1914 and began his career as an officer. In January 1919, injured and excellent, he began studying law at the University of Jena , which he completed in August 1920. In 1921 he received his doctorate there. After various positions in preparatory service, he became an assistant judge at the higher regional court in Jena in 1932 .

In June 1931 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 279.514) and entered the Thuringian state parliament for them on July 31, 1932 . In 1933 Weber was re-elected . In the new state government of Fritz Sauckel , Weber became Minister of Justice under Prime Minister Willy Marschler . From December 14, 1934, he was entrusted with the duties of regional president of the Erfurt administrative district by the head of the province of Saxony, Curt von Ulrich, and officially appointed on May 27, 1935. Weber was then dismissed by Adolf Hitler as Thuringian Minister of State (in the area of ​​justice), but was immediately appointed to the Thuringian State Council.

From 1934 Weber was first local group leader in or district leader of Weimar, from April 1936 to May 1937 also district leader of the NSDAP in Erfurt. With that Weber was again subordinate to Sauckel as Gauleiter of Thuringia (which Erfurt belonged to).

On April 20, 1937 Otto Weber was appointed SS-Oberführer and on November 9, 1940, SS-Brigadführer. He carried the SS no. 279,514.

When the province of Saxony was dissolved on April 1, 1944 and divided into the province of Magdeburg and the province of Halle-Merseburg , Weber was entrusted by Sauckel, who now ruled the administrative district of Erfurt, with the exercise of the duties and powers of the senior president in the state administration. Before the end of the Second World War , Weber was arrested by members of the US Army , but was released from the Staumühle internment camp to join his family in Braunlage in June 1948 . The proceedings opened in August 1949 (because of membership in a criminal organization, the SS ) ended in December 1950 with the classification as exonerated by the Braunschweig Denazification Committee . From 1954 Weber lived in Hanover, became a member of the FDP in 1956 and died there in 1973.

Fonts

• Farewell, Your Excellency! Open letter to General Ludendorff. Self-published, Weimar 1929.
• National Socialism and Peasantry: A Handbook to Clarify the National Socialist Question . Weimarischer Verlag, Weimar 1929.
• Position and tasks of the judge in the new German state . Fink, Weimar 1933. Was placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone after the end of the Second World War .
• Small catechism for the judiciary . Weimar 1934.

literature

• Dieter Marek: Dr. Otto Weber, District President in Erfurt 1935 to 1945. Biographical sketch , in: Das Prussische Thüringen. Treatises on the history of its representative bodies , ed. v. Thuringian Landtag (= writings on the history of parliamentarism in Thuringia, Volume 17), Rudolstadt 2001, pp. 181-200.
• Bernhard Post, Volker Wahl : Thuringia Handbook: Territory, Constitution, Parliament, Government and Administration in Thuringia 1920 to 1995 (= publications from Thuringian State Archives, Volume 1), H. Böhlaus successor: Weimar 1999, p. 620, 639f. ISBN 3-7400-0962-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Marek, Weber, pp. 182-184.
2. ^ Marek, Weber, pp. 184, 186, 190–193
3. ↑ http://www.dws-xip.pl/reich/biografie/lista3/lista3.html
4. ↑ Marek, Weber, pp. 196-200.
5. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-w.html