Wilhelm Busch (politician, 1892)

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Wilhelm Busch

Wilhelm Busch (born October 13, 1892 in Herleshausen , † January 30, 1968 in Coburg ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

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After attending elementary school, Wilhelm Busch learned the locksmith's trade , which he then practiced at home and abroad. From 1912 to 1914 he was a member of the 2nd Guards Field Artillery Regiment in Potsdam. From 1914 to 1918 Busch took part in the First World War, in which he was wounded and awarded the Iron Cross II class and the Wound Badge . After the end of the war, Busch worked again as a locksmith from December 1918, later as a pre-fitter and pre-welder, and from January 1, 1935 as a technical inspector at the Reichsbahn repair shop in Gotha.

From 1924 to 1926 Busch was a member of the Gotha City Council . He then became head of the local Gotha group of the NSDAP (membership number 44.797), which he led until 1927. From 1928 to 1932 he was head of the Seebergen local group , then from 1932 to the beginning of 1933 local group leader of the city of Gotha and Seebergen. In September 1932, Busch took over the office of district leader in Gotha.

In August 1932, Busch became a member of the Thuringian state parliament , to which he was a member until it was dissolved in autumn 1933. From November 1933 until the end of the Nazi regime in the spring of 1945, Busch finally sat as a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for constituency 12 (Thuringia) . Since October 22, 1933, Busch was also a member of the State Council of the Thuringian government. In the SS he reached the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer in 1938 (membership number 21,040).

On April 22, 1945, Busch was arrested by American soldiers in Seebergen and interned in various camps. On August 24, 1948, he was sentenced to three years and four months in prison by the Benefeld-Bomlitz court, taking into account his internment, and released that same month. Afterwards he lived in Hartenholm until he came to Coburg via Kattendorf. He applied for an appeal against his verdict, which was rejected on March 2, 1949 by the Supreme Court in Hamm. He lived in Coburg until his death.

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 .

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Individual evidence

  1. a b List of seniority of the NSDAP Schutzstaffel. As of October 1, 1943, p. 33, No. 1222. (JPG; 1.44 MB) In: http://www.dws-xip.pl/reich/biografie/1943/1943B.html . Retrieved November 6, 2019 .