Wilhelm Grezesch

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Wilhelm Grezesch (born May 1, 1906 in Neidenburg , † July 13, 1941 in Kurne , USSR) was a German politician (NSDAP).

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Grezesch attended elementary school in Neidenburg from 1912 to 1913 , then the elementary schools in Elmshorn in the Pinneberg district ( Schleswig-Holstein province ) and Langelohe . From 1921 to 1923 he completed an apprenticeship as a gardener in Elmshorn. He then worked as a gardener's assistant in Mecklenburg Switzerland , Bavaria , the Rhineland and Holstein . From 1928 to 1931 Grezesch was self-employed as the operator of a horticultural company in Elmshorn. Since autumn 1931 he was unemployed.

In 1926 Grezesch, who had been active in the German Nationalist Freedom Movement in Mecklenburg since 1924 , joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP, membership number 38.051) and the Sturmabteilung (SA) as a troop leader. In 1932 he became the leader of the Schutzstaffel (SS No. 9.456) in Elmshorn.

Grezesch and his Elmshorn SA storm took part in the advertising march on July 17, 1932, which resulted in the Altona Blood Sunday . A week later, Grezesch was injured during a National Socialist demonstration in a working-class district of Elmshorn. The Gestapo later made the leader of the Elmshorn Red Front Fighter League , Max Wriedt, responsible for the attack on Grezesch. Wriedt was tortured to death in Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp in January 1935 . On the night of August 1, 1932, hand grenade attacks were carried out on restaurants in Elmshorn, Uetersen and Barmstedt . One of the targets of the attack was a party office of the KPD . Grezesch was on 21 November 1932 by the Special Court in the District Court of Altona as one of the main culprits of the attacks to six years in prison convicted. A few days before the verdict was Grezesch in the general election in November 1932 as a candidate of the Nazi Party for the constituency 13 (Schleswig-Holstein) in the Reichstag voted, where he remained until March 1933rd However, he was only able to take up his mandate after his release on December 7, 1932.

In June 1933 Grezesch was acting chairman of the Free Gymnastics and Sports Association Elmshorn. He married in 1935. By 1936 at the latest he was chief of the 7th company of the " Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler ". He was promoted several times in the SS, most recently on June 1, 1939 to Sturmbannführer. Grezesch died shortly after the German attack on the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941. Most recently with the rank of Sturmbannführer of the Waffen SS, he had been a member of the "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler" since July 1, 1941 as an SS leader for the special use of the reconnaissance department.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudi Arendt: The worker Max Wriedt: Tortured to death in Fuhlsbüttel. In: Elmshorner Nachrichten , February 28, 2012 (accessed on August 14, 2013).
  2. ↑ Jürgen Brüggemann: Antifascist Resistance and Workers' Movement in Elmshorn at www.stolpersteine-elmshorn.de (accessed on August 14, 2013).
  3. ^ Elmshorner Nachrichten of December 7, 1932.
  4. ↑ Folker Schmerbach: The Hanns Kerrl community camp for trainee lawyers in Jüterbog 1933-1939 , 2008, p. 65.

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 , p. 189 .

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personal data
SURNAME Grezesch, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Neidenburg
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1941
Place of death Kurne (USSR)