Paul Vollrath

Paul Vollrath

Paul Vollrath (born December 20, 1899 in Küstrin , † 1965 in Nordhalben ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

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From 1906 to 1908 Paul Vollrath attended the elementary school of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Küstrin, then from 1908/1909 the pre-school of the Realschule in Kulm, West Prussia, from 1909 to 1911 the Gymnasium in Kulm, from 1911 to 1914 the Friedrich-Wilhelm Gymnasium in Posen and from 1914 to 1915 the Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Weimar . From April 1915 to April 1916 he was a cadet in the Naumburg advance corps. He then visited the Groß-Lichterfelde main cadet institute from 1916 to 1918 in order to join the 2nd Jäger Battalion in the spring of 1918. Before the end of the war, Vollrath was made an ensign, and then at the end of 1918 he was transferred to the 2nd State Rifle Brigade. At the end of 1920 he was released from Reichswehr Rifle Regiment No. 8, into which the brigade had since been converted.

Vollrath, a pharmacist by profession, became a member of the NSDAP in mid-July 1925. From the end of October 1933 he was district leader in Mühlhausen / Thuringia and also officiated as district hunter master. From October 1939 he took part in World War II as a soldier . On July 30, 1940, Vollrath joined the National Socialist Reichstag in the replacement procedure for Alfred Eckart , in which he represented constituency 12 (Thuringia) until the end of the Nazi regime in spring 1945. From 1942 to 1945 he held the office of district administrator in the Mühlhausen district . In 1945 he took part in the military again and was taken prisoner by the French. Released again he worked as a pharmacist in Stadtsteinach (Franconia).

According to an article in the "Thuringian People" of January 31, 1948, Vollrath was involved with a horde of National Socialists in the vandalization of the Mühlhausen synagogue on the Night of the Reichspogrom and seriously injured Rabbi Max Rosenau with a shot in the chest. For this he received a two-year prison sentence from a Bayreuth court in 1958. He later became a pharmacist in Nordhalben near Kronach.

literature

• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , pp. 690–691.
• Erich Stockhorst : 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . 2nd Edition. Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 .
• Ernst Kienast (ed.): The Greater German Reichstag 1938, IV. Electoral period, R. v. Decker's Verlag, G. Schenck, June 1943 edition, Berlin