Wilhelm Holzwarth

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Jakob Wilhelm Holzwarth (born September 15, 1875 in Scheinfeld , † November 30, 1941 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German farmer and politician ( Völkischer Block / NSDAP ). Among other things, he was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament from 1924 to 1928 .

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Holzwarth was a son of Anton Holzwarth and his wife Barbara, geb. Farmer. Holzwarth attended secondary school and completed an apprenticeship as a brewer. Later he was a farmer, warehouse owner and innkeeper in Scheinfeld. He joined the Pan-German Association in 1893 and was active in the Association of Farmers before the First World War . After the end of the war he belonged to the völkisch-nationalist right.

According to Rudolf von Sebottendorf, Holzwarth was a member of the Thule Society . In 1920 Holzwarth joined the NSDAP ( membership number 3229). In 1921 he founded the NSDAP local group in Scheinfeld, which is said to be the party's oldest local group in Franconia. As the local group leader of Scheinfeld, Holzwarth had a secret arsenal excavated before the Hitler putsch in September 1923 , which brought the National Socialists there into possession of a considerable amount of weapons.

On April 30, Holzwarth visited Adolf Hitler, who was imprisoned in Landsberg. In the state elections in Bavaria in 1924 , Holzwarth was elected as a candidate for the Völkisch Block (DVB). The DVB was founded as a catchment basin for the NSDAP, which was banned after the failed Hitler coup; the Scheinfeld district office was one of the strongholds of the party.

On the occasion of the re-establishment of the NSDAP in the spring of 1925, Holzwarth rejoined the party. On the date of admission on March 1, 1925, he was given membership number 20. In September 1925, he switched to the newly formed NSDAP parliamentary group in the Bavarian state parliament. According to Robert Probst, Holzwarth, Georg Zipfel and Emil Löw were among a group of Nazi MPs who lacked the “demagogic-agitational talent” and who “[often] encouraged the state parliament to salmon volleys with their clumsy statements”.

In the state elections in May 1928 , Holzwarth was given a hopeless place on the NSDAP's electoral list, so that he lost his mandate despite doing well personally. He complained about the loss of his mandate in numerous letters to the Reich leadership and to the faction leader of the National Socialists in the state parliament, Rudolf Buttmann . Rainer Hambrecht characterizes Holzwarth as a “personality geared towards independence” who did not allow him “uncritical submission to Hitler and Streicher ”. Hambrecht attributes Holzwarth's loss of mandate primarily to the dispute between him and Streicher, which went back to 1924 and which was only externally resolved in 1928.

In August 1928 Holzwarth joined the Landbund from the NSDAP . He also became a member of the Tannenberg Association , which is under the patronage of Erich Ludendorff . He reproached his former party for being socialist and showing no interest in agriculture. He used the Uffenheimer Tageblatt , which he founded in 1928, as editor between 1928 and 1932 for violent attacks and revelations about the NSDAP, for example about the homosexuality of Ernst Röhm and Edmund Heines . At the end of October 1932, the newspaper's express press and printing plant were completely destroyed by the explosion of an old war grenade. The perpetrators could never be identified, although it is "extremely likely" that the attack was carried out by the Uffenheimer SA . Holzwarth stated that he had received several threatening letters from the National Socialists before the attack. In November 1937, the supreme party court of the NSDAP called Holzwarth the "biggest rascal that has ever crept into the movement".

Holzwarth had to leave Bavaria and moved to Windecken near Hanau. He died in Frankfurt am Main in 1941.

family

Holzwarth married Katharina Christner (born November 22, 1883) in Unterhausen on November 4, 1913. The son Wilhelm Holzwarth emerged from the son.

literature

  • Rainer Hambrecht: The rise of the NSDAP in Middle and Upper Franconia (1925-1933). (= Nuremberg workpieces on urban and regional history , Volume 17), Nuremberg City Archives, Nuremberg 1976, ISBN 3-87432-039-1 .
  • Wolfgang Mück: Nazi stronghold in Middle Franconia: The völkisch awakening in Neustadt an der Aisch 1922–1933. Verlag Philipp Schmidt, 2016 (= Streiflichter from home history. Special volume 4); ISBN 978-3-87707-990-4 , pp. 31 f., 148, 259 f. and more often.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register of the registry office Frankfurt am Main II for the year 1941: Death certificate No. 509.
  2. ↑ He ran the Zum Storchen inn in Scheinfeld and then worked in the Schwarzenberg brewery at Schwarzenberg Castle . See Wolfgang Mück: Nazi stronghold in Middle Franconia: The völkisch awakening in Neustadt an der Aisch 1922–1933. Verlag Philipp Schmidt, 2016 (= Streiflichter from home history. Special volume 4); ISBN 978-3-87707-990-4 , pp. 31 and 259.
  3. ^ Probst, NSDAP , p. 37 with reference to: Rudolf von Sebottendorf: Before Hitler came. Documents from the early days of the National Socialist movement. Deukula, Munich 1933, p. 221ff.
  4. ^ Robert Probst: The NSDAP in the Bavarian Parliament 1924-1933. (= Munich Studies on Modern and Recent History , Volume 19) Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-631-32213-5 , p. 61.
  5. ↑ Hambrecht, Aufstieg , p. 51 f.
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Mück (2016), p. 59.
  7. ↑ Hambrecht, Aufstieg , p. 67.
  8. ^ Probst: NSDAP , p. 62.
  9. ^ Probst, NSDAP , p. 70 f.
  10. ↑ Hambrecht, Aufstieg , pp. 73, 137.
  11. ↑ Hambrecht, Aufstieg , p. 224; Social Democratic Press Service of October 26, 1932 at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (pdf, 3.7 MB).
  12. ^ Probst, NSDAP , p. 71.
personal data
SURNAME Holzwarth, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holzwarth, Jakob Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP)
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Scheinfeld
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1941
Place of death Frankfurt am Main