Werner Fiehler

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Werner Fiehler (1910)

Heinrich "Heinz" Werner Fiehler (born March 3, 1889 in Bayreuth , † 1952 in Stuttgart ) ( pseudonym : Heinz Werner , Heinz Werner Wulff ) was a German writer and political activist. He became known as one of the defendants in the so-called "Little Hitler Trial " of 1924.

Life and activity

Heinrich and Emma Fiehler with sons and daughters (around 1910): No. 1: Werner Fiehler; No. 5: Karl Fiehler

Fiehler was the eldest son of the Baptist preacher Heinrich Fiehler and his wife Emma, ​​née Wulff. He had six siblings. His youngest brother was Karl Fiehler , who later became mayor of Munich.

Youth and First World War

In his youth, Fiehler attended the public school and the municipal commercial school in Munich. From the spring of 1915 he took part in the First World War as a war volunteer with the 1st Baden Leibgrenadier Regiment No. 109 . During the war he became an employee of the Champagne Comrade , the field newspaper of the 3rd Army. From the end of 1917 until the end of the war he was editor of this newspaper.

Weimar Republic

After the war, Fiehler was a member of the so-called German Committee for the Duchy of Schleswig in Flensburg until the beginning of 1920 , which campaigned for Northern Schleswig to remain with the German Empire or against an annexation of these areas to Denmark . As part of the committee's propaganda work in the run-up to the referendum on the status of the province, Fiehler appeared as a meeting speaker. He also wrote newspaper articles and leaflets in which he campaigned for the northern border areas to remain with the German Empire. During this time Fiehler belonged to the German People's Party (DVP) from 1920 to 1921 .

After returning to his commercial profession in mid-1922, Fiehler settled in Munich at the end of the year. There he became a member of the NSDAP and of Hitler's raiding party with whom he took part in the Hitler putsch on November 8 and 9, 1923 . When he found out about his imminent arrest at Christmas 1923 for participating in the failed overthrow of November 1923, he evaded arrest by fleeing to South America, where he worked as a businessman and journalist in various states until 1929.

In April 1924 Fiehler within the so-called was "little Hitler process" - the trial of forty members of the shock troops Hitler - in the absence before the Munich People's Court to a fine of fifteen months imprisonment sentenced.

Nazi era

After his return to Germany, Fiehler took a position at Bayerische Warenvermittlung, Agricultural Cooperatives. For embezzling company funds, he was sentenced on August 1, 1929 by the Munich criminal court to a prison sentence of fifteen months on probation.

In 1930 Fiehler rejoined the NSDAP. In the same year he became an employee - later editor - of the NSDAP newspaper Die Front as well as an employee of the Völkischer Beobachter , whose special reporter in the Bavarian state parliament he was from the beginning of 1932 to 1933.

On September 14, 1933, Fiehler was taken into protective custody because he had forged documents with the name of his brother Karl, who had meanwhile advanced to become Mayor of Munich, in order to illegally obtain money.

On February 2, 1936, Fiehler was taken into protective custody for "damage to the reputation of Mayor Fiehler and the National Socialist movement" and was sent to the Dachau concentration camp on February 4, 1936 . He remained there as prisoner no. 9128 until September 28, 1937. In a 1937 report from the Dachau concentration camp , which was published in the Germany reports of the Social Democratic Party (Sopade) , it says: “Every three weeks the Prisoners' hair shorn short. So far, only two have been allowed to keep their natural hairstyle: the brother of Munich's Lord Mayor Fiehler and du Moulin Eckart. ”Elsewhere in the Germany reports , lectures by Werner Fiehler that he would have given in the concentration camp are reported. Thematically, the presentations were about “Judaism and Money”. He would not have met with much interest from his fellow prisoners.

Fiehler, who, under pressure from the party leadership, had declared his resignation from the NSDAP in 1936, after his release from the concentration camp got a job as an office clerk in the Herzogsägmühle hiking yard near Schongau.

In January 1939 Fiehler moved to Nuremberg , where he was taken into custody that same month for offenses against the treachery law . After he was guilty of numerous scams, he was sentenced on September 8, 1939 by the Nuremberg Fürth Regional Court for offenses of total drunkenness to a prison sentence of seven months, which was considered to have been served by pre-trial detention. He was then placed in the Hutschdorf drinking sanctuary near Kulmbach . There he met the Hamburg teacher Hannelore Glaser (later: Hannelore "Loki" Schmidt ) in 1941, who had evacuated to Hutschdorf with her school class because of the air raids on the Hanseatic city in 1941 and had found a place to stay in the lower rooms of the sanatorium. Werner Fiehler made music with the schoolchildren and organized a "singing and circus performance", "at which [he] played the ringmaster with a top hat". He justified his forced stay in the institution opposite Hannelore Glaser with his resignation from the NSDAP, which the party did not regard as a private matter. After all, he would be the brother of the Mayor of Munich. After the so-called seizure of power , he had distanced himself more and more from National Socialism, to which he enthusiastically committed himself in the 1920s and was therefore rewarded with the gold party badge in 1933 .

From 1939 Fiehler began to work as a writer. He mainly wrote novels, also a comedy ( change of course in utopia ). In 1941 the Reichsschrifttumskammer imposed a publication ban on him, so that some of his works that had already been completed were no longer made public.

Fonts

  • The battle for the San Pedro mine. An adventure novel from the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. 1941 (under the pseudonym Heinz Werner)
  • A girl disappears. 1941.
  • The smile of the Monalisa (no longer published due to the Reichsschrifttumskammer's ban on publication)
  • A minstrel is riding (no longer published due to the Reichsschrifttumskammer's publication ban )

literature

  • Hans D. Lehmann: The "German Committee" and the votes in Schleswig 1920. 1969.
  • Stefan H. Rinke: "The last free continent". German Latin America Policy under the Sign of Transnational Relations, 1918–1933. 1996.
  • Dirk Walter: Anti-Semitic Crime and Violence. Anti-Semitism in the Weimar Republic. 1999.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bayreuth registry office: Birth register for the year 1889: Birth register entry No. 1889/103.
  2. ^ Stuttgart death register for the year 1952, entry no. 1952/88.
  3. ^ Matthias Rösch: The Munich NSDAP 1925-1933. An investigation into the internal structure of the NSDAP in the Weimar Republic . Volume 63 in the series studies on contemporary history . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag: Munich 2002. ISBN 978-3-486-70651-2 . P. 389
  4. ↑ Records of the Dachau concentration camp: Werner Fiehler ; accessed on November 10, 2017
  5. ↑ Klaus Behnken (Ed.): Germany reports of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (sopade). 1934 - 1940 , fourth year 1937, Frankfurt 1982 (6th edition), p. 691; P. 699
  6. ↑ For quotes and facts, see Hannelore Schmidt: Forced to grow up early . In: Childhood and youth under Hitler (Helmut Schmidt, Willi and Willfriede Berkhan [...], Hannelore Schmidt). Siedler Published by Berlin 1992². ISBN 3-88680-444-5 . Pp. 19-68; here: p. 46f
personal data
SURNAME Fiehler, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fiehler, Heinrich Werner; Werner, Heinz (pseudonym); Wulff, Heinz Werner (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and political activist
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayreuth
DATE OF DEATH after 1941