Paulina Schwitzgebel

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Paulina Schwitzgebel , maiden name Paulina Kurz (born April 6, 1889 in Hütschenhausen ; † July 3, 1963 ) was a German functionary of the Nazi women's union between 1923 and the end of World War II.

Life

Paulina Kurz was the daughter of a businessman and a Protestant. On Christmas Eve 1920 she married Fritz Schwitzgebel , who later became NSDAP Lord Mayor of Saarbrücken. The couple adopted a son and Paulina Schwitzgebel worked as a handicraft teacher in her trained profession. They lived in Zweibrücken from 1925 to 1935 .

The NSDAP she joined the 1923rd In autumn 1923 she became the leader of the National Socialist women's association in the Palatinate (Bavaria) . She held this office until 1932 and was then from February 1934 to May 1, 1935, when her husband was transferred to the school department in Saarbrücken, Gauamtsleiterin of the Nazi women's association in the Palatinate. Later she was active as a group speaker for the Nazi women's association in Saarbrücken. From July 10, 1934, she was a member of the district committee of the Palatinate Red Cross .

The Gau women leaders worked closely with the Gau leaders. Pauline Schwitzgebel was well known to Josef Bürckel since the early days of the NSDAP. During the denazification , Pauline Schwitzgebel confirmed that she knew about the Holocaust . She was classified as "burdened".

She died six years after her husband, who died in Zweibrücken in 1957.

Web links

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Heinz: "... the ranks firmly closed." Organizational-historical aspects of the Palatinate NSDAP and its structures , in Gerhard Nestler and Hannes Ziegler (ed.): The Palatinate under the Hakenkreuz , Landau, 2nd edition 1997, p. 87 -117

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Entry on Paulina Schwitzgebel in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
  2. ^ Biography of Fritz Schwitzgebel ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Sybille Steinbacher (ed.): Volksgenossinnen: Women in the NS-Volksgemeinschaft , Wallstein Verlag, 2012, pp. 118/119 ISBN 9783835322073
  4. ↑ Sybille Steinbacher (ed.): Volksgenossinnen: Women in the NS-Volksgemeinschaft , Wallstein Verlag, 2012, p. 128
  5. ^ Gerhard Nestler, Hannes Ziegler: The Palatinate in the post-war period: Reconstruction and a new democratic beginning (1945-1954) , Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore, 2004, p. 141, ISBN 9783927754522
personal data
SURNAME Schwitzgebel, Paulina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES In short, Paulina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German functionary of the Nazi women's association
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Hütschenhausen
DATE OF DEATH 3rd July 1963