Wilhelm Münzer

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Wilhelm Karl Ernst Münzer , also: Willi Münzer or Willy Münzer , (born September 12, 1895 in Münster ; † June 11, 1969 in Bad Iburg ) was a German commissioner for the Reich Commissioner for the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands .

Act

From 1921 to 1924, Münzer was district leader of the Front Fighter Association Stahlhelm . He held the position of deputy district leader of the German Volkische Freedom Party (DVFP) from 1922 to 1924.

In 1924 he joined the Völkisch Social Block , in 1925 he became a member of the NSDAP . In the party hierarchy, Münzer was entrusted with the management of the propaganda department in Osnabrück in 1931 .

From 1932 to 1934 he led the local group leadership (OGL) of the NSDAP in Osnabrück-Martinitor. In 1933 he was elected to the city council. For the NSDAP he represented the district leadership of the NSDAP in the Osnabrück-Stadt area from August 20, 1934 to the end of August 1940. In the summer of 1935, the anti-Semitic riots he fueled in Osnabrück reached such proportions that the Gestapo and other government agencies intervened and forced him to end them. As the representative of the Reich Commissioner for the Netherlands, he took over the management of the province of Zeeland from July 26, 1940 to December 1, 1944, where he was in command in the city of Koudekerke . On April 3, 1945 Münzer fled together with the Lord Mayor of Osnabrück, Erich Gaertner , and the district inspector Fritz Wehmeier from the British troops advancing from Osnabrück in the direction of Bremen. On the outskirts of town they saw a white flag on a farm and drove there. One of the three shot dead the 52-year-old farmer Anna Daumeyer, who, in order to protect her son, said when asked that she had raised the flag. The act was never atoned for, but Fritz Wehmeier died a short time later near Ostercappeln when his car was shot at. Gaertner, who followed the car, was initially able to flee, Münzer was immediately taken prisoner. The Allies extradited him to the Netherlands, where he was interned in Kamp Vught . On August 7, 1948, Münzer was released to Germany.

In 1949, Münzer was classified as "less encumbered" in the denazification process against a fine of 2000 marks. Because of the arson at the Osnabrück synagogue on the night of the pogrom in 1938 , Münzer and other local Nazi officials were also tried in 1949 and acquitted in December 1949.

literature

  • Michael Rademacher, Who was who in the Weser-Ems Gau , BoD, Norderstedt 2005, ISBN 3-8334-2909-7

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Gellately: The Gestapo and the German Society. Enforcement of Racial Policy 1933-1945. Paderborn 1993, page 128f.
  2. ↑ Jann Weber: Murdered because of a white flag. In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung June 20, 2009.
  3. ↑ Hendrik Steinkuhl: Historian in the Nussbaum House. Lecture about local group leaders of the Osnabrück NSDAP. In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung November 8, 2013.
  4. ↑ Peter Niebaum: Hans Calmeyer - a "different German" in the 20th century. Berlin 2011, page 131.
personal data
SURNAME Münzer, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Münzer, Wilhelm Karl Ernst (full name); Münzer, Willi; Münzer, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German representative of the Reich Commissioner for the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1969
Place of death Bad Iburg