Wilhelm Brodmerkel

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Wilhelm Brodmerkel (born May 14, 1895 in Regensburg ; † September 11, 1939 near Łowicz ) was a German local group leader of the NSDAP and a captain of the Wehrmacht .

Life

Brodmerkel grew up in Regensburg. He signed up as a volunteer in the First World War. Brodmerkel married Else Brandner , daughter of a church utensil manufacturer, with whom he had five children. In the interwar period he ran a dentist's shop in Dech Betten.

Brodmerkel joined the NSDAP early on and was considered an "old party member". At the end of the 1920s he held the position of district and district leader of the party. In the spring of 1930, Brodmerkel was elected local group leader of the NSDAP after the NSDAP's weak performance in Regensburg city politics and the resulting leadership dispute. He replaced Alois Bayer, who then joined Otto Strasser's group. After restructuring under Brodmerkel, the NSDAP experienced a significant boom and attention. On May 18, 1930, Brodmerkel organized a performance by over 400 SA men in Regensburg Cathedral. The mass at that time was celebrated by Bishop Buchberger under standards and SA flags placed on the high altar and received national press coverage. At the beginning of 1932, Brodmerkel was scheduled to be the second mayor under Gauleiter Franz Maierhofer in the event that the Regensburg city administration should pass into National Socialist hands . In autumn 1932 - after a previous restructuring of the NSDAP - Brodmerkel was replaced as local group leader by district leader Wolfgang Weigert .

The November pogrom in Regensburg was carried out in the first few hours of November 10, 1938, mainly by over 200 members of the NSKK school. Wilhelm Brodmerkel was Obersturmführer of the Regensburg NSKK, whether he was involved in the destruction of the synagogue and the attacks has not yet been clarified.

Brodmerkel took part as a captain in the campaign against Poland, where he was killed in battle on September 11, 1939 in Chruslin near Łowicz.

In 1942 the Wehrmacht major Robert Bürger married Helene Brodmerkel, a daughter of the deceased captain, and continued to run the Brodmerkel dentist with her in the years after the war.

literature

  • Peter Eiser, Günter Schießl: End of the war in Regensburg, Verlag Friedrich Pustet Regensburg , 2012. ISBN 978-3-7917-2410-2 .
  • Erich Zweck: The National Socialist German Workers' Party in Regensburg from 1922–1933 , in: Negotiations of the Historical Association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg (VHVO) Vol. 124, 1984, pp. 149–260.
  • Waltraud Bierwirth and Klaus Himmelstein: The November Pogrom 1938 and the long road to a new synagogue , Walhallanet Regensburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-9814689-4-6

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Eiser, Günter Schießl: End of War in Regensburg , 2012, p. 33.
  2. ↑ Obituary from November 19, 1939 in: Bayerische Ostmark No. 128.
  3. ↑ Erich Zweck: The National Socialist German Workers' Party in Regensburg , 1984, p. 198.
  4. ↑ Erich Zweck: The National Socialist German Workers' Party in Regensburg , 1984, p. 198.
  5. ↑ Waltraud Bierwirth and Klaus Himmelstein: The November Pogrom 1938 , 2013, p. 34.
personal data
SURNAME Brodmerkel, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local group leader of the NSDAP and captain of the Wehrmacht
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1939
Place of death at Łowicz