Rudolf Röhrig

Rudolf Röhrig

Rudolf Röhrig (born May 22, 1903 in Lambrecht ; † November 10, 1970 ibid) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and SA leader .

Life before 1933

The son of an entrepreneur attended primary school in Lambrecht and, until 1920, secondary school in Neustadt . He then attended a state school for agriculture and completed an agricultural apprenticeship. Until 1926 he worked in several agricultural volunteer and manager positions; after 1926 he was without permanent employment. Röhrig married in October 1934; the marriage resulted in a child.

Röhrig was initially a member of the DVP . In January 1926 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 28,474); since May 1925 he was a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA). Röhrig founded and led the NS youth group in Lambrecht and led the SA there. In December 1929 Röhrig took over his first public office as a city councilor in Lambrecht.

Röhrig appeared as a Gauredner for the NSDAP and acted as propaganda leader of the Gau Rheinpfalz from 1928 . In 1929 he became editor of the NS newspaper Eisenhammer , a position that he also held from 1930 on the successor NSZ-Rheinfront . In addition, he was also editor of the Green Front , a farmer's fight newspaper, and finally since June 15, 1932 as editor of the Palatinate Bundschuh , the organ of the National Socialist organization of the farmers of the Rhine Palatinate. In the SA Röhrig was since June 1, 1931 adjutant to the leader of the SA Brigade Pfalz-Saar Fritz Schwitzgebel .

1933 to 1945

A few weeks after the National Socialist “ seizure of power ” in the spring of 1933, Röhrig was appointed deputy to the Special Representative of the Supreme SA Leadership (OSAF) ​​for the Palatinate, Fritz Schwitzgebel, on April 10, 1933 . Between September 1933 and April 1935 he was adjutant of SA Brigade 51 "East Palatinate", then until January 1936 he was entrusted with the management of the staff leader of SA Brigade 151 "West Palatinate" based in Saarbrücken . On February 15, 1936, he was appointed Gau training manager for the Saar Palatinate Gau , a position he held until 1945. After the so-called “Anschluss” to the German Reich , from May 1938 to April 1939 he was in charge of building up the Nazi training course at the Reich Commissioner in Austria , Josef Bürckel .

From November 12, 1933 until the end of Nazi rule in spring 1945, Röhrig was also a member of the National Socialist Reichstag as a member of the Palatinate constituency. In the SA he was last promoted to brigade leader in April 1944 .

Time from 1945

Röhrig was a French prisoner of war from 1945 to April 1948 and then interned in Landau until April 1949 . On May 5, 1949, he was classified by the Neustadt Spruchkammer as an "offender". He then worked as a farmer in Lambrecht.

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. 521 .
• Franz Maier: Biographical organization manual of the NSDAP and its divisions in the area of ​​today's state of Rhineland-Palatinate . (= Publications of the Landtag commission for the history of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate , Volume 28) Hase & Koehler, Mainz 2007, ISBN 978-3-7758-1407-2 , pp. 388-390.

Web links

• Rudolf Röhrig in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Entry on Rudolf Röhrig in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database