Richard Schaller

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Richard Schaller

Richard Schaller (born July 12, 1903 in Cologne , † August 12, 1972 , August 12, 1982 or August 12, 1989 ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

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Richard Schaller was born the seventh of eleven children to a Cologne craftsman. One of his brothers was the later NSDAP district leader for Cologne-South, Alfons Schaller. From 1910, Schaller attended elementary school in his hometown. In 1917 he began an apprenticeship in his father's company, which he had to break off prematurely when the business was closed due to financial difficulties. Schaller then earned his living as a construction worker until 1929.

After Schaller was initially close to the KPD , Josef Grohé won him over to the NSDAP, which he joined in the spring of 1923. Schaller quickly developed into one of the party's leaders in the Cologne area.

When the NSDAP was re-established in 1925 after a temporary ban, Schaller rejoined it. As early as 1926 he was entrusted with the management of the NSDAP local group in Cologne, which he led until the end of 1932. Also from 1926 he was deputy to Grohé, the NSDAP Gauleiter in the Cologne-Aachen district. In 1929, Schaller entered the Cologne city council for the NSDAP, of which he was a member until 1933.

As a member of the Reichstag , to which he had been a representative of constituency 20 (Cologne-Aachen) since 1930 , he voted, among other things, for the adoption of the Enabling Act of March 1933 introduced by the Hitler government .

Following the transfer of power to the National Socialists in spring 1933, Schaller was one of the key figures in consolidating the new regime in the Cologne area: in March 1933 he was appointed mayor of the Cologne district of Cologne . In this office he was largely responsible until 1938 for reorganizing Cologne's city administration in the National Socialist sense.

In June 1933, Schaller's competencies were expanded to include the role of regional administrator for the Rhine Province in the National Socialist welfare organization . From 1937 to 1939, Schaller was in charge of the “Trade and Crafts” head office of the Cologne-Aachen district. On January 1, 1937, Schaller was finally appointed Gauobmann of the DAF . In the last years of the Nazi regime, Schaller was again deputy Gauleiter of Cologne-Aachen.

Schaller was also a member of the SA and SS , in which he held the rank of brigade leader, as well as the holder of the golden party badge .

After the Second World War , Schaller was arrested by the Allies . His sentencing to a mild sentence provoked widespread protests in the Cologne population in 1948: There were mass parades at the trade union building, not far from Cologne's Westbahnhof, and a petition calling for a tougher sentence: “Schaller [...] is [...] not only one of the great war criminals, but also […] [responsible for] atrocities perpetrated by the Nazi regime in Cologne and beyond. We therefore demand the fastest revision of this disgrace. "

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  1. ↑ Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : BIORAB online.
  2. ↑ Joachim Lilla : The deputy Gauleiter and the representative of the Gauleiter of the NSDAP, 2003.
  3. ↑ Martin Schumacher: MdR , 1994, p. 412.
  4. ^ Society for Rhenish History: Rheinische Lebensbilder 17 (1997), p. 251.
  5. ^ Reinhold Billstein: The other Cologne. Democrat. Traditions since d. French Revolution , 1979, p. 430.

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SURNAME Schaller, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1972 or August 12, 1982 or August 12, 1989