Werner von Fichte

Werner von Fichte (born May 4, 1896 in Kassel , † June 20, 1955 in Munich ) was a German SA leader , police chief and writer.

Life

Fichte was a great-grandson of the philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte . From 1907 to 1914 he was educated in the cadet corps in Karlsruhe , Bensburg and Groß-Lichterfelde.

From 1914 to 1918 Fichte took part in the First World War. In 1915 he was made a Prussian lieutenant. In 1919 he took part in the free corps fighting in the Baltic States . In 1919 or 1920 he joined the Ehrhardt Marine Brigade . In the early 1920s, Fichte was one of the leaders of the Wiking Association , of which he was "Führer Westdeutschland" from 1923 to 1926.

In 1928 Fichte joined the NSDAP . In the Sturmabteilung he became adjutant to OSAF deputy West Kurt von Ulrich in 1929 . From 1930 to 1932 he served as SA group leader.

From 1933 to 1934 Fichte served as police chief of Erfurt . Fichte was arrested during the events of the Röhm putsch and held in Lichtenburg concentration camp from July to August 1934 . In July 1934, by order of Hitler, he was expelled from the SA and removed from his office as police chief. Fichte then lived temporarily in Koblenz . He also worked as a writer.

Fonts

• Morning gate of freedom. A seal from the fateful days of Germany , 1934.
• The legend of the Peterskloster in Erfurt , 1934.
• Spukflieger , 1940. (reprinted as Der Spukflieger in 1942 )

literature

• Kirsten Holm: Weimar under the spell of the Führer. The visits of Adolf Hitler from 1925 to 1940. Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2001, ISBN 3-412-03101-1 , p. 164
• Baldur von Schirach : The Pioneers of the Third Reich . Essen 1933.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Max Domarus [Ed.]: Adolf Hitler. Speeches and Proclamations, 1932-1945 , 1967, p. 409.