Robert Roth (politician)

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Robert Roth

Robert Roth (born February 7, 1891 in Liedolsheim , † April 13, 1975 in Karlsruhe ) was a member of the Reichstag for the NSDAP .

Life

Roth was the youngest of four sons of a farmer. After attending elementary school, he completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter in Karlsruhe, went on a hike and passed the master craftsman's examination in 1909. In February 1921, Roth founded his own carpentry shop. Roth served his military service in the Badischer Pioneer Battalion No. 14 in Kehl . He also served in this unit from 1914 to 1918 during the First World War . Most recently, Vice Sergeant , Roth was wounded three times during the war. Roth married in July 1917; the marriage resulted in six children.

According to his own statements, Roth's political interest developed during the war. On the recommendation of his captain, he read anti-Semitic publications from Theodor Fritsch's Hammer Verlag . Back in Liedolsheim, he joined the local gymnastics club, became its sports supervisor, and in this role prevented the social democrats from merging the club with the local workers' sports club . In 1919 Roth founded a "Reading Club for Race and German Ethnicity", which was initially part of the gymnastics club. From 1920 the reading club operated as a local group of the German National Protection and Defense Association . The Liedolsheim farmer Albert Roth , who is not directly related to Robert Roth , also joined the reading club . After the prohibition of the Schutz- und Trutzbund, the association briefly called itself the NSDAP local group Liedolsheim in the summer of 1922 ; it was one of the first local groups in Baden . After the NSDAP was banned in Baden, the group continued to exist as the "Aryan League". In July 1923, a group of 24 Liedolsheimers - including both Roths and the teacher August Kramer , who has been working in the town since the beginning of the year - officially visited Munich to take part in the gymnastics festival. In Munich there was a meeting with Hitler at which the formal admission of the Liedolsheimer group to the NSDAP was arranged. A meeting of National Socialists in Liedolsheim in the same month, declared as a "Schlageter celebration" , resulted in a police operation, in which despite the deployment of 37 police officers the arrest of the two Roths and Kramers failed due to their support in the population.

After the re-admission of the NSDAP in 1925, Roth was at times local group leader for Liedolsheim; from 1926 he appeared for the party as a Gauredner . Since 1924 he was a member of the local council. In January 1925, Roth was stabbed in disputes following the Liedolsheim mayoral election, in which his older brother was a candidate for the extreme right. When investigating the party bureaucracy in 1938, Roth's statements on the severity of the injury turned out to be considerably exaggerated, so that the award of the blood order , which he was striving for, was not carried out.

During the Weimar Republic, Liedolsheim developed into an early stronghold of the NSDAP and its substitute organizations: The Völkisch-Soziale Block received 51.9% of the votes in the Reichstag elections in May 1924 (Baden: 4.8%, Reich: 6.6% ). In the elections in December 1924 , Roth ran for the Deutschvölkische Reichspartei , a party that only appeared in the constituency of Baden, and achieved 35.9% of the votes in Liedolsheim (Baden: 0.3%). The NSDAP achieved 49.2% locally in the Reichstag election in 1930 (Baden: 19.2%, Reich 18.3%). In this election Roth succeeded in entering parliament ; He kept his mandate until the end of the war in the then insignificant National Socialist Reichstag .

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists, Roth was appointed Deputy President of the Baden Chamber of Crafts in 1933 . In January 1940 he became chairman of the Chamber of Crafts, an office that he had held provisionally since April 1937. When it was renamed the Upper Rhine Chamber of Crafts in October 1942, Roth was also responsible for the de facto annexed Alsace . After the dissolution of the Chamber of Crafts, he was from April 1943 to 1945, as Gauhandwerkmeister, Chairman of the Crafts Department of the Gauwirtschaftskammer Oberrhein. In addition, he was state master craftsman in Baden, Reich guild master of the German carpentry and military economy leader . In the NSDAP, Roth was Gau inspector around 1933, later Gauamtsleiter for special use in Gau Baden.

After the liberation from National Socialism , Roth was imprisoned from May 1945 to March 1946. He then changed residence and job several times. It is not known why Roth was imprisoned for a comparatively short time. During the denazification in January 1950, a complaint was drawn up in the French occupation zone, which Roth classified as “guilty”. The very mild handling of denazification in the French zone led to protests in Liedolsheim, so that the case was transferred to Karlsruhe, which was in the American zone. In April 1951, Roth was classified in the group of the "incriminated" by the central judgment chamber there. As a measure of atonement, 10% of his property was to be confiscated. Roth appealed. In the proceedings, which dragged on until the beginning of 1955, Roth achieved a reduction in the atonement, but had to bear considerably higher court costs. In the course of the denazification process, the mayor of Liedolsheim declared in November 1953 that Roth was “everywhere, just not on the basis of democracy”. In addition, he was a sponsor of the banned Socialist Reich Party or its successor organizations.

Roth's carpentry business, which is said to have employed 20 workers and four apprentices in 1951, went bankrupt in 1956 and was foreclosed in September 1957.

literature

  • Konrad Dussel : Albert and Robert Roth. Two National Socialist members of the Reichstag from Liedolsheim in northern Baden. (= Contributions to the history of the district of Karlsruhe , volume 10) Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 2016, ISBN 978-3-89735-953-6 .
  • 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. 527 .

Web links

  • Robert Roth in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical information in:
    Dussel, Albert and Robert Roth , passim;
    Lilla, Extras , p. 527;
    Kurt Hochstuhl: Time to fight in the country. On the early history of the NSDAP in Baden: The example of Liedolsheim. In: Christof Müller-Wirth (Red): Serving the ideal of freedom - commemorating its champions. Festival ceremony for Wolfgang Michalka. Friends of the Memorial Site for Freedom Movements in German History, Rastatt 2003, ISBN 3-00-011738-5 , pp. 81–88;
    Johnpeter Horst Grill: The Nazi movement in Baden, 1920-1945. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 1983, ISBN 0-8078-1472-5 , pp. 69f;
    Biography in the handbook of the Reichstag
  2. ↑ under evaluation of the Liedolsheimer Ortsfamilienbuch : Dussel, Albert and Robert Roth , pp. 17, 20 f;
    also Grill, Nazi movement , p. 70;
    The assertion that they were brothers is often found in the literature, for example in:
    Lilla, extras , p. 527;
    Hochstuhl, Kampfzeit , p. 83 f;
    Frank Teske: The district of Karlsruhe in the Nazi era. A study on social, political and economic change using the example of the communities Berghausen, Jöhlingen, Linkenheim and Malsch. (= Contributions to the history of the Karlsruhe district. Volume 4) Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 2003, ISBN 3-89735-230-3 , p. 56.
  3. ↑ Dussel, Albert and Robert Roth , p. 32.
  4. ↑ Dussel, Albert and Robert Roth , pp. 39, 45 f.
  5. ↑ Local election results for Monika Rummel, Uwe Rummel: Dettenheim: turning points in the history of Liedolsheim and Rußheim. Municipality of Dettenheim, Altlußheim 1998, ISBN 3-00-003405-6 , p. 49. For supra-local election results, see Elections in the Weimar Republic .
  6. ^ Teske, Karlsruhe district , p. 34.
  7. ^ Kurt Hochstuhl (edit.): 100 years of the Karlsruhe Chamber of Crafts . Handicraft is the future. Info-Verlag, Karlsruhe 2002, ISBN 3-88190-284-8 , pp. 117, 126 f.
  8. ^ Dussel, Albert and Robert Roth , p. 10.
  9. ↑ Dussel, Albert and Robert Roth , pp. 10-13.
  10. ^ Dussel, Albert and Robert Roth , pp. 13, 93.
personal data
SURNAME Roth, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Liedolsheim
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1975
Place of death Karlsruhe