Werner Wächter

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Werner Wächter

Werner Wächter (born May 9, 1902 in Erfurt ; † August 1946 ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and party functionary.

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Wächter was trained in Prussian cadet schools in Köslin , Oranienstein and Lichterfelde for ten years from 1908 . After the end of the war, Wächter completed a commercial apprenticeship in Berlin and Drewitz .

In 1922 Wächter joined the SA and the NSDAP and became a co-founder of the Potsdam branch. In 1923, Wächter became a representative of OLEX German Gasoline and Petroleum GmbH . In 1929 Wächter was group leader and in 1932 district leader (district west of the Gaus) and district leader 2 in Gau Berlin . In this capacity he became one of the closest collaborators of the Berlin Gauleiter Joseph Goebbels , as whose "right hand" he was considered. In the Reichstag elections of July 1932 guard was a candidate of the Nazi Party for the constituency 3 (Potsdam II) in the Reichstag voted, which it initially belonged until November of the same year. In November 1933 he returned to the National Socialist Reichstag for his old constituency , which this time he was a member of without interruption until May 1945.

After 1933, Wächter became Gau propaganda leader in the Berlin Gau and state agency manager of the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda . In 1940 he took over the management of Office I in the Ministry. In 1942 he became SA group leader and in 1943 chief of the NSDAP's propaganda staff.

Wächter was found missing after World War II and was officially declared dead on December 31, 1950. According to information from Soviet archives, after he was arrested by Soviet authorities in September 1945, Wächter was sentenced to death by shooting as a high-ranking Nazi functionary and was probably executed in August 1946.

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 .
  • Willi A. Boelcke (Ed.): War Propaganda 1939–1941. Secret ministerial conferences in the Reich Propaganda Ministry. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1966.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willi A. Boelcke (Ed.): War Propaganda 1939–1941. Secret Ministerial Conferences in the Reich Propaganda Ministry , 1966, p. 100ff
  2. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 634.
  3. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.german-militaria.de
  4. ^ Karlheinz Schmeer: The direction of public life in the Third Reich , 1956, p. 30.
  5. ^ Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 635.
  6. ↑ according to Willi A. Boelcke, p. 102, FN 24, Wächter was arrested by the Russians in 1945. Boelcke spreads other rumors.
  7. ↑ Andreas Weigelt, Klaus-Dieter Müller, Thomas Schaarschmidt, Mike Schmeitzner (eds.): Death sentences of Soviet military tribunals against Germans (1944-1947). A historical-biographical study. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-36968-5 , p. 733.
personal data
SURNAME Guardian, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR and party functionary
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH August 1946