Philipp Baetzner

Philipp Baetzner , also Philipp Bätzner (born May 15, 1897 in Walddorf ; † January 10, 1961 ), was a German politician ( NSDAP ). He was a member of the Reichstag from 1933 to 1945 .

Life

Baetzner attended elementary school for seven years and then completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter. At the same time he attended a trade school. After the journeyman's examination, he was drafted into the field artillery in March 1916 and was a soldier on the Western Front from June 1916 to November 1918 . In February 1919 he was released from the army as a private. In autumn 1919 he passed the master craftsman's examination as a carpenter. In 1920 he and his brother opened a carpenter's workshop in Nagold , which went bankrupt in 1927. Baetzner had been married since 1922; the marriage had three children.

Baetzner was probably one of the first members of the NSDAP local group in Nagold, which was founded in early summer 1923 . After the NSDAP ban, he joined the party on August 8, 1927 ( membership number 65,883). In the same year he founded the Sturmabteilung (SA) in Nagold. At the end of the 1920s, Baetzner was NSDAP district manager responsible for the higher offices in Freudenstadt , Herrenberg , Horb and Nagold . In 1928 he was elected to Nagold's municipal council, making him the first Württemberg NSDAP member with a local political mandate. On April 24, 1932, Baetzner became a member of the Württemberg state parliament .

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists, Baetzner took part in 1933 as a sub-commissioner in the persecution of opponents of the regime in the higher offices of Calw, Freudenstadt, Nagold and Neuenbürg . In November 1933 he received a mandate for constituency 31 in the National Socialist Reichstag , of which he was a member until 1945. Between 1933 and 1937 Baetzner was part-time district leader of the NSDAP in Nagold. After the merger of the regional offices in Calw and Nagold, he moved to the Horb district management in June 1937 and, in 1943, after the Wurster district manager was replaced, he also took over the Calw district. On May 1, 1937, he was promoted to SA Standartenführer . From April 1, 1933 to March 1939, Baetzner was President of the Reutlingen Chamber of Crafts . In the mid-1930s he became a state master craftsman for Württemberg. On February 18, 1939, he became President of the Stuttgart Chamber of Crafts and Head of the Chamber of Crafts Department of the Württemberg and Hohenzollern Chamber of Commerce in Stuttgart. From 1943 to 1945 he was Gau craft master for the Gau Württemberg-Hohenzollern.

At the end of the war, Baetzner fled via the Allgäu to Vorarlberg . There he was captured by French troops; Baetzner was in custody until autumn 1948. In June 1948 he was sentenced to 18 months in prison by the Rottweil regional court as a ringleader in the November 1938 pogroms . According to the court's findings, Baetzner had given the orders for the desecration of the synagogues in Rexingen and Mühringen . In addition, with a speech in Horb on November 10, he had incited SA members to further riots, which then devastated the synagogue in Baisingen . During the denazification in March 1950, Baetzner was classified in group II (“polluted”). After his release from prison he moved to Nagold. Baetzner, who had been widowed since summer 1945, entered into a second marriage there.

literature

Carsten Kohlmann: "... to keep the individual perpetrators secret as far as possible". On the biography of NSDAP district leader Philipp Baetzner (1897–1961) and his role in the pogroms on November 9 and 10, 1938 in the Horb district. In: Memorial Circular 5 , November 2010, pp. 1–5 (PDF, 1.8 MB).
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. 17 .
Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 20 .

Web links

Philipp Baetzner in the database of members of the Reichstag
Hand file Philipp Bätzner with the judgment of the Rottweil Regional Court at the Sigmaringen State Archives

Individual evidence

↑ Great Citizens' Assembly . In: The partner - official and announcement sheet for the district of Nagold . 111th year, no. 142 , June 23, 1937, pp. 3 , col. 2 and 3 , center , urn : nbn: de: bsz: 2316-1232 ( digitized version in the Calw district archive [accessed on June 20, 2020]).

↑ The district leader spoke to the youth of Nagold a. Environment - "Everything for Germany and the beloved Führer" . In: The partner - official and announcement sheet for the district of Nagold . 117th year, no. 38 , February 15, 1943, p. 4 , top left , urn : nbn: de: bsz: 2316-1232 ( digitized in the Calw district archive [accessed on June 20, 2020]).

↑ 1900 - 2000. 100 years of the Reutlingen Chamber of Crafts. (PDF; 3.6 MB) Reutlingen Chamber of Crafts, 2001, pp. 64–65 , accessed on March 2, 2013 .

personal data
SURNAME	Baetzner, Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bätzner, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	May 15, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH	Forest village
DATE OF DEATH	January 10, 1961

[Der_Gesellschafter-1] Great Citizens' Assembly . In: The partner - official and announcement sheet for the district of Nagold . 111th year, no. 142 , June 23, 1937, pp. 3 , col. 2 and 3 , center , urn : nbn: de: bsz: 2316-1232 ( digitized version in the Calw district archive [accessed on June 20, 2020]).

[2] The district leader spoke to the youth of Nagold a. Environment - "Everything for Germany and the beloved Führer" . In: The partner - official and announcement sheet for the district of Nagold . 117th year, no. 38 , February 15, 1943, p. 4 , top left , urn : nbn: de: bsz: 2316-1232 ( digitized in the Calw district archive [accessed on June 20, 2020]).

[HWK-3] 1900 - 2000. 100 years of the Reutlingen Chamber of Crafts. (PDF; 3.6 MB) Reutlingen Chamber of Crafts, 2001, pp. 64–65 , accessed on March 2, 2013 .