Paul Schraermeyer

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Paul Schraermeyer (* 20th June 1884 in Meyenburg , † 1955 ) was from 1924 to 1945 District Administrator of the district Hechingen .

Life

Paul Schraermeyer, son of a businessman from Brandenburg, studied in Tübingen and Göttingen. He entered the civil service as a lawyer.

During the National Socialist period he was considered by the "NSDAP circles as a black reactionary who was inclined to the clergy." On May 1, 1937, he joined the NSDAP . During the Reichspogromnacht in 1938, when the interior of the local synagogue in Hechingen was destroyed, District Administrator Schraermeyer ordered the arrest of 15 “rich Jews as possible” on the orders of the Gestapo Sigmaringen that same night; five of the imprisoned Hechingen Jews were transferred to the Dachau concentration camp . In 1947 he had to because of the deportation of Haigerlocher Jews at the District Court Hechingen answer. Because crimes against humanity he was sentenced to 27 months in prison, but already acquitted a year later on appeal. On this occasion, the French occupation authorities found that the process aroused great emotions in the population and that 90% of the population of the district were on the side of the accused, for whom the CDU and above all the clergy campaigned for propaganda.

Schraermeyer was a member of the Catholic student associations AV Guestfalia Tübingen and the AV Palatia Göttingen , both in the Cartellverband (CV) .

From 1929 to 1933 he was a member of the municipal parliament of the Hohenzollern Lands .

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  1. Schwarzwälder Bote , August 16, 2011
  2. Quoted from: Manuel Werner: The Jews in Hechingen as a religious community . In: Zeitschrift für Hohenzollerische Geschichte 107, Volume 21 (1985), p. 152.
  3. Otto Werner: Synagogues and Jewish cemetery in Hechingen. Hechingen 1996, pp. 192-203.
  4. ^ Statement by the Hechingen district administrator Paul Schraermeyer in the 1947 trial
  5. Jörg Friedrich: "The cold amnesty"
  6. ^ National Socialist Trials and the German Public Ed .: Jörg Osterloh and Clemens Vollnhals
  7. Michael Ruck: "Corps Spirit and State Consciousness: Officials in the German Southwest 1928 to 1972"