Walter Ortlepp

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Walter Ortlepp

Walter Ortlepp (born July 9, 1900 in Gotha ; † October 23, 1971 in Aschaffenburg ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ), lawyer, police officer and National Socialist who, during the Nazi era, was among other things Police President of Weimar , head of the Interior Ministry of Thuringia , SS Brigadefuhrer and a member of the Reichstag .

Life

Ortlepp, son of a bank clerk put, in February 1918 after attending the Realschule and Gymnasium Ernestinum in Gotha the High School from. Between June and November 1918 Ortlepp did military service, among other things with the substitute department of the 5th / 6th. Guard field artillery regiment in Jueterbog.

After being released from the German Army , he studied law in Göttingen and Jena . During his studies he was a member of the Göttingen student corps in March and April 1920 at the time of the Kapp Putsch . From 1920 to 1924 he was a member of the Young German Order . After completing the first state examination in law, he worked as a trainee lawyer from 1922 and completed his training in 1926 with the second state examination. He then worked for the public prosecutor's office in Weimar and from January 1, 1927 to June 30, 1930, worked as an assistant judge at the Weimar Regional Court . He was then appointed to government councilor by Wilhelm Frick , Thuringia's interior minister appointed by the NSDAP , and until August 1, 1931 he was in charge of the state criminal police office at the police headquarters in Weimar. As a result of Frick's resignation as minister, Ortlepp was transferred to Königsee as a district judge in August 1931 . Under Fritz Sauckel , whose personal advisor Ortlepp was from July 1933, he became police director in September 1932 and finally served as police chief of Weimar from the beginning of April 1933 to the beginning of 1936 . He played a key role in building the Thuringian Gestapo apparatus . From January 22, 1936 to April 19, 1936, he succeeded Fritz Wächtler as a representative in the management of the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior, which was directly subordinate to Reich Governor Sauckel. From April 20, 1936 until the end of the war he was head of the Interior Ministry in Thuringia. In April 1936, Adolf Hitler appointed him State Secretary. With the General Plenipotentiary for Labor Deployment, he was the chief of staff and the representative for the Reich ministries. The NSDAP ( member number 45154) occurred Ortlepp first time in September 1923 and - after the end of the party ban - in September 1927 (membership 66,836.) Again at. From 1924 to 1925 he was adjutant in the Frontbann , a reception organization of the SA, which was banned at the time . In 1925 he switched to the legal SA and was adjutant in the SA-Gausturm in Thuringia from 1929 to 1930. Ortlepp was for several years chairman of the NSDAP's investigation and arbitration committee (USchlA) for the district of Thuringia .

Ortlepp became a member of the SS in September 1931 (SS no. 11.319). By transfer order from Reinhard Heydrich , Ortlepp was seconded from the SS to the SD at the end of 1933 , from which he returned to the general SS at the beginning of April 1943 as a result of the restructuring of the SD. In 1943 he was still a leader in the staff of the SS Upper Section Fulda-Werra.

He was a member of the Weimar City Council from 1929 and chaired it from January 1, 1933 to 1935. From August 1932 he was a member of the Thuringian Parliament and from October 1933 State Councilor in Thuringia. In addition, from November 1933 until the end of the war he was a member of the Reichstag for constituency 12 (Thuringia), which was meaningless during the Nazi era . He was a member of the National Socialist Altherrenbund and there from 1939 until the end of the war Gauverband leader. In addition, he was president of the DRK -Landesverein Thüringen eV from 1936 to 1938 and from 1937 to 1945 DRK general chief.

After the war ended, Ortlepp was arrested by the US Army in Plauen on May 28, 1945 and interned in the Ziegenhain , Darmstadt and Ludwigsburg camps. During the denazification , he was classified by the camp judgment chamber in Ludwigsburg in August 1948 in the group of "main culprits" and sentenced to four years in a labor camp. In August 1950, the Central Appeals Chamber for North Württemberg placed Ortlepp in the group of "incriminated" persons and sentenced him to three and a quarter years in a labor camp; who were considered served due to internment after the end of the war. Ortlepp's petition for clemency to the Prime Minister of Württemberg-Baden was rejected in September 1951, but the confiscation of his property was canceled.

Ortlepp was provisionally released in August 1948. Until 1953 he worked as a laborer at Zellstoffwerke AG in Aschaffenburg. He then worked as a legal assistant in various Aschaffenburg law firms until 1960. His civil service rights were restored to him in February 1960. From 1962 he was admitted to the bar in Aschaffenburg. Ortlepp died in Aschaffenburg in October 1971.

Awards

Ortlepp's SS ranks
date rank
September 4, 1931 SS Sturmführer
October 1, 1932 SS-Sturmhauptführer
April 20, 1933 SS-Sturmbannführer
November 9, 1933 SS-Sturmhauptführer
September 21, 1933 SS standard leader
October 20, 1935 SS-Oberführer
April 20, 1937 SS Brigade Leader

literature

  • Marlis Gräfe, Bernhard Post and Andreas Schneider: The Secret State Police in the NS Gau Thuringia 1933 - 1945. Sources on the history of Thuringia . II. Half volume, published by: State Center for Political Education Thuringia , unchanged new edition 2005, ISBN 3-931426-83-1 .
  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . (Updated 2nd edition).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 445.
  2. ↑ a b Bernhard Post, Volker Wahl (Ed.): Thuringia Handbook. Territory, constitution, parliament, government and administration in Thuringia 1920 to 1995 (= publications from Thuringian state archives; 1). Weimar 1999, ISBN 3-7400-0962-4 , p. 613.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Marlis Gräfe, Bernhard Post and Andreas Schneider: The Secret State Police in the NS Gau Thuringia 1933 - 1945. Sources on the history of Thuringia . II. Half volume, published by: State Center for Political Education Thuringia, unchanged new edition 2005, p. 555 f.
  4. ↑ Carsten Schreiber: Elite in Hidden: Ideology and regional domination practice of the security service of the SS and its network using the example of Saxony. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2008, ISBN 9783486585438 , pp. 91, 379
  5. ^ Archives in Thuringia: Bulletin 02/2006 , p. 35
  6. ^ German Red Cross - Landesverband Thüringen eV (Ed.): The Red Cross in Thuringia from 1804 to 1990 - A documentation of the DRK Landesverband Thüringen Working Group on History , Erfurt 2007, p. 47
  7. ↑ Lilla, extras , p. 450f.
personal data
SURNAME Ortlepp, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), SS-Brigadführer, Interior Minister of Thuringia, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1971
Place of death Aschaffenburg