Richard Fiedler

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Richard Kurt Fiedler (born April 24, 1908 in Berlin ; † December 14, 1974 in Graefelfing ) was a German SS brigade leader and a major general of the police, politician and SS and police leader (SSPF).

Life

Fiedler completed an apprenticeship as an art and building fitter from 1922 to 1926; in the same period he studied three semesters at the state higher mechanical engineering school in Berlin.

In 1922 Fiedler joined the Bismarck League and the Roßbach Freikorps , the latter of which he was a member until 1925. Later he belonged to the national gymnastics associations, a company named after Albert Leo Schlageter and, from 1924, the Frontbann , a reception organization of the SA , which was banned at the time. After being re-admitted, he joined the SA in October 1925 and the NSDAP ( membership number 33,777) in April 1926. Between 1927 and 1929 he was a propaganda warden for the NSDAP local group in Berlin-Alexanderplatz and leader of an SA troop. From September 1931 Fiedler, meanwhile with the rank of SA-Standartenführer, led the SA-Standarte 6. Due to political offenses Fiedler was indicted several times in the final phase of the Weimar Republic .

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , Fiedler belonged to the functionless Reichstag from November 1933 until the end of the war , first for constituency 3 (Potsdam II), then for constituency 23 ( Duisburg- West) and finally for constituency 11 ( Merseburg ). Until October 1934 he held functions in the Berlin SA , most recently he led the SA Brigade 32 "Berlin-Mitte". On October 24, 1936, Fiedler married Ursula Flamm (* December 31, 1912), with Joseph Goebbels and Wolf-Heinrich von Helldorff acting as witnesses . Through this marriage Fiedler was related to the SA-Sturmbannführer Willi Markus , the leader of the 33rd SA-Sturmbann, who was subordinate to him. Both Fiedler and Markus were later accused of participating in the murder of the communist Albrecht Höhler in autumn 1933 ; Höhler had been sentenced to six years in prison in 1930 for manslaughtering Horst Wessel . In February 1935, Fiedler moved to Duisburg, where he became a councilor and was also responsible for the local SA Standard 138. After another transfer, he took over the leadership of SA Brigade 38 in Halle in August 1936 . In Halle, too, Fiedler was a councilor from 1936 to 1939.

In August 1939, Fiedler switched from the SA to the SS (membership number 337.769) and from August 1939 to the beginning of October 1940 led SS Section XVII ( Münster ) and then until the beginning of August 1944 SS Section XXXXIII ( Litzmannstadt ). In June 1941 Fiedler was drafted into the Waffen SS , of which he was a reserve leader with one interruption between December 1941 and September 1942 until November 1943. Fiedler was deployed on the Eastern Front and wounded during the Leningrad blockade in September 1943. In May 1944 he temporarily represented the Higher SS and Police Leader in Denmark ; between June and October 1944 he was SS and police leader for Montenegro .

After being wounded, Fiedler returned to Germany in October 1944. In the final phase of the Second World War , in February 1945, he commanded a cordoned off section in Strasburg in Pomerania and also headed the "Fiedler Fiddler" in the area of ​​the Vistula Army Group .

After the Second World War, Fiedler lived in Munich and Lochham . At this time he was drawn into controversies of contemporary history, such as the dispute over the authorship of the Reichstag fire , in which he made himself available as a witness to the private researcher Fritz Tobias . In addition, Fiedler was investigated by the Federal German judiciary on various occasions without any charges being brought against him, for example in connection with the murder of Albrecht Höhler in the late 1960s.

In the 1960s, Fiedler was involved in the Action Group for Independent Germans , for which he ran unsuccessfully on the Bavarian state list in the 1965 federal election.

Awards

Fiedler's SA, SS and police ranks
date rank
1931 SA standard leader
April 1933 SA Oberführer
1936 SA brigade leader
August 1939 SS Brigade Leader
1940 SS-Obersturmführer of the Reserve (Waffen-SS)
November 1943 SS-Hauptsturmführer of the Reserve (Waffen-SS)
1944 Major General of the Police

Archival material

Fiedler's personal records have been preserved in the Federal Archives. In particular, the holdings of the former Berlin Document Center contain a file with party correspondence on Fiedler (PK microfilm C 183, photos 1911-2010) and an SS personal file (SSO microfilm 206, photos 265 to 585).

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. 137 f .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The diaries of Joseph Goebbels. Edited by Elke Fröhlich , Part I, Volume 3 / II, Munich 2001, p. 225, entry from October 25, 1936.
  2. Wilfried Kugel: The irresponsible one. The life of Hanns Heinz Ewers. 1992, p. 312.
  3. Fiedler, Richard . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Faber to Fyrnys] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 301 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 253 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).