Paul Wipper

Paul Wipper (around 1940).

Paul Wipper (born October 30, 1906 in Bochum , † January 11, 1992 in Trier ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

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After attending elementary school , Wipper completed a three-year apprenticeship as a dental technician . He then continued his profession until 1930. According to his own statements, he was then dismissed because of his political activities in the NSDAP, to which he had been a member since 1928 ( membership number 93.499). The SS (SS-Nr. 13433) occurred at Wipper in September 1931, but dropped out because he did not report back to work after the temporary ban on the SS in the spring of 1932.

In 1931, Wipper opened a national "Großdeutsche Buchhandlung" in Trier . In the previous year he had already taken over the leadership of the NSDAP local group in Cochem and tasks as a party speaker. In 1932 he was appointed district leader of the Trier-Land-West district. He married his wife in 1934 at the Nazi leadership school in Berlin. In autumn 1934 he uncovered a fraud in the NS-Volkswohlfahrt , which the Gauleitung and the district leader Trier-Stadt Albert Müller wanted to cover up. Wipper was initially on leave, but after Rudolf Hess's intervention he was rehabilitated in September 1935 and transferred to Cochem as a representative of the NSDAP, where he was district leader from 1936 to 1945.

From March 29, 1936 until the end of Nazi rule in spring 1945, Wipper was a member of the National Socialist Reichstag , in which he represented constituency 21 (Koblenz-Trier). In September 1939 he rejoined the SS under his old membership number. He was last promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer in July 1944 .

Wipper volunteered for military service in January 1940, in which he was seriously wounded. After the surrender of the Wehrmacht , he was initially captured by the Soviets, was able to escape and went into hiding for several years. He was later interned in Esterwegen for a few months by the British military government . There he renounced his previous convictions and wrote in 1948 with this in mind: “We not only have to sweat out Hitler, but also the spirit that is subservient to military madness [...] I am ashamed of the crimes that were committed in the name of the German people . ”In the denazification in March 1950, Wipper was classified as“ less polluted ”.

After his release, Wipper settled back in Trier and worked as a sales representative from 1952. Politically now permeated by anti-militarist views, he turned against rearmament in the 1950s and became a member of the International of Opponents of the War . In 1979 he joined the newly founded Arbeitsgemeinschaft Frieden eV , with which he turned against the policy of the nuclear arms race . On the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the end of the war, Wipper appeared in 1985 together with the former communist and concentration camp prisoner Willi Torgau at a public meeting on Trier's main market to warn of the dangers of war and fascism.

Fonts

• With body and life. Thoughts of a front-line soldier of our day , 1943.

literature

• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , p. 732 f .
• Franz Maier: Biographical organization manual of the NSDAP and its divisions in the area of ​​today's state of Rhineland-Palatinate . (= Publications of the Parliament's Commission for the History of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate , Volume 28) Hase & Koehler, Mainz 2007, ISBN 978-3-7758-1407-2 , pp. 506–508.
• Alfons Friderichs (Ed.): Personalities of the Cochem-Zell District , Kliomedia, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-89890-084-3 , p. 387.
• August Stein: Klotten on August 15, 1944, The district leader commemorated the dead , (Rz.v. Aug. 21, 1944), Yearbook District Cochem-Zell 2004, p. 34.
• Alfons Friderichs: Individual fate: District leader Paul Wipper in Cochem , yearbook district Cochem-Zell 2005, p. 45.

Web links

Commons : Paul Wipper  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Paul Wipper in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Entry on Paul Wipper in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Instead leader Trier Nazism , Trier 1996, p 135th
2. ↑ Quoted at: www.stattfuehrer.de ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
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4. ↑ Maier, Organization Handbook , p. 507.