Wilhelm Boltz

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Wilhelm Boltz

Wilhelm Boltz (born September 26, 1886 in Weißenfels , † October 22, 1939 in Hamburg-Altona ) was a German politician (NSDAP) and Police President of Hamburg .

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After attending Realschule in Schmalkalden and Realgymnasium I in Hanover, Wilhelm Boltz was accepted into the Prussian Cadet Corps in 1898. In 1904 he joined the Imperial Navy as a midshipman . In the First World War he initially took part as the 2nd artillery officer of the cruiser Breslau . In 1915 Boltz was entrusted with the management of the German landing department on Gallipoli , which fought on the side of the Ottoman Empire during the Dardanelles campaign against Allied landing forces. Then Boltz took over the management of the Turkish naval school in Kalki before he was assigned to the staff of Erich von Falkenhayn , the German commander in chief of the theater of war in the Middle East, in which Joachim von Ribbentrop and Franz von Papen were also active at the time. Boltz found his last employment in the war as the leader of a river section on the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in then Ottoman-ruled Iraq . After the war, Boltz took over the leadership of a company in the Loewenfeld Freikorps , with which he participated in fighting in Berlin and Upper Silesia during the civil war-like turmoil of the early post-war period . In 1920 he was released from the Imperial Navy as a lieutenant captain . Then he settled down as a businessman in Hamburg.

In February 1931, Boltz joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). He was also a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA). In 1930 Boltz founded the Hamburg-Altona naval tower . From 1932 to 1933 Boltz sat for the NSDAP in the Hamburg parliament . In the Reichstag election of March 1933, Boltz entered the Reichstag as a candidate of the NSDAP for constituency 34 (Hamburg) , of which he was a member for almost nine months until the November 1933 election. One of the important parliamentary events in which Boltz was involved during his time as a member of parliament was the vote on the Enabling Act in March 1933, which was finally passed with Boltz's vote .

After the National Socialist " seizure of power " in the spring of 1933, he was appointed inspector of the Marine SA in July 1933 and held this office until October 1933. On October 25, 1933, Boltz was promoted to SA Oberführer in the SA . Boltz was appointed police chief of Hamburg on October 7, 1933 as the successor to Hans Nieland and held this position until the end of December 1936. Boltz was finally appointed naval advisor to the SA group Hansa and promoted to SA brigade leader on November 9, 1937. From the end of 1936, Boltz was director of the Hafendampfschiffahrts-AG (HADAG).

After his death, Boltz was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery and received a Senate funeral. The original gravestone (column with stone eagle and removed swastika) was replaced around 2003.

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literature

  • 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 , p. 54.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Military history reports , 1989, p. 58.
  2. ↑ Joachim Lilla u. a. (Editor): Extras in Uniform , Düsseldorf 2004, p. 54
  3. ^ Frank Bajohr : Parvenüs und Profiteure , Fischer, 2001, p. 28
  4. ↑ Herbert Diercks : Signs of the Times: Graves 1933 - 1945 on the Ohlsdorfer Friedhof . In: Ohlsdorf - Journal for Trauerkultur , Edition: No. 95, IV, 2006 - November 2006
personal data
SURNAME Boltz, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdHB, MdR, Police President
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Weissenfels
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1939
Place of death Hamburg-Altona