Wilhelm Helfer
Wilhelm Helfer (born December 26, 1886 in Kaiserslautern , † August 15, 1954 in Laufen) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and SA leader.
Life
After attending primary school and secondary school , Wilhelm Helfer completed a commercial apprenticeship. He then temporarily belonged to the Bavarian Infantry Body Regiment in Munich . He later earned his living in commercial positions at home and abroad, most recently as a miner in German South West Africa . During the First World War Helfer belonged to the Imperial Protection Force of German South West Africa . He was then a British prisoner of war in the Transvaal .
Helfer returned to Germany in 1922. In the same year he became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 395), which he rejoined after the party ban in 1925, and SA. Initially SA leader in Munich-Upper Bavaria, he headed the SA group Hochland in Munich from mid-March to mid-September 1933 and from July 1934 to April 1941. At times he was a member of the staff of the Supreme SA Leader . In the SA he was promoted to the rank of SA Obergruppenführer in November 1937.
Helfer took over his first public office in 1933 when he became a member of the Bavarian state parliament . After the dissolution of this body in autumn 1933, he became a member of the National Socialist Reichstag , to which he belonged from November 1933 until the end of Nazi rule in spring 1945 as a representative of constituency 24 ( Upper Bavaria - Swabia ).
From January 30, 1939 Helfer held the NSDAP's golden party badge .
During the Second World War Helfer officiated from May 1941 as Reichszeugmeister to the Reich Treasurer of the NSDAP.
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 .
Web links
- Wilhelm Helfer in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Joachim Lilla : Helper, Wilhelm. In: ders .: Minister of State, senior administrative officials and (NS) functionaries in Bavaria from 1918 to 1945.
- Wilhelm Helfer in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
Individual evidence
- ^ Klaus D. Patzwall : The Golden Party Badge and its Honorary Awards 1934-1944, Studies of the History of Awards Volume 4 , Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt 2004, ISBN 3-931533-50-6 , p. 71
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Helper, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (NSDAP), MdR, MdL and SA leader |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kaiserslautern |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 15, 1954 |
| Place of death | To run |