Paul Batzer

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Paul Batzer (* 1891 or 1895 ; † after 1942) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) who was Senator for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda in the Free City of Danzig from 1933 to 1937 and was a member of the Rauschning Senate and the Greiser Senate .

Life

Paul Batzer was appointed Senator for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda on September 22, 1933 in the Free City of Danzig as successor to Anton Sawatzki in the People's Day . As such, he was the main contributor to the publication of the publication Danzig ruft! The National Socialist German Danzig calls the people of the Third Reich . At the same time he was State Commissioner for the Winter Relief Organization in the Free City of Danzig in the winter of 1933/34 . During his tenure as a senator in Danzig, he lived in Zopot , Schäferstrasse 30a. In January 1936, a party trial was initiated against him. After his office had been suspended, he officially resigned from the Greiser Senate in Danzig on February 4, 1937 . During this time he was President of the Association of German Cooperatives. V. The subsequent efforts to accommodate Paul Batzer as a welfare officer in Berlin ultimately failed in 1939. During the Second World War , Batzer was active as a district economic advisor in Posen for the Reichsgau Wartheland in 1941/42 and called himself Senator a. D. As a regional economic advisor, he took part in the meeting of the Reich Trustees for the Work of the Eastern Territories on October 9, 1941 in Posen.

On December 1, 1942, Paul Batzer publicly called in the Litzmannstädter Zeitung to all companies in the Warthegau not to hold Christmas parties, but only to celebrate Christmas with the closest family members, because all forces should be used to win the guns.

In Munich in 1933 he was a major supporter of the renaming of the previous Feilitzschplatz in Danziger Freiheit , today Münchner Freiheit .

family

Paul Batzer was married to Alice, née Füllgraf. The marriage produced a daughter.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann-Josef Rupieper: The situation reports of the secret state police for the province of Saxony 1933 to 1936 , Volume 2, Halle (Saale): Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 2004, page 306.
  2. ↑ Helmut Heiber (Ed.): Files of the party chancellery of the NSDAP, Regesten , Volume 2, Munich, Vienna: Oldenbourg, 1983, page 200.
  3. ↑ Ibid., P. 430.
  4. ↑ The paper manufacturer , Volume 40, 1942, page 28.
personal data
SURNAME Batzer, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP)
DATE OF BIRTH 1891 or 1895
DATE OF DEATH after 1942