Wilhelm Marotzke

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Franz Wilhelm Marotzke (born August 16, 1897 in Hildburghausen , † September 22, 1949 in Aurich ) was a German ministerial official and economic functionary. Among other things, he was a senior civil servant in the four-year plan and sat on the Dresdner Bank supervisory board from 1943 to 1945 .

Life

After attending school and participating in the First World War , Marotzke studied law and economics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , the Friedrichs-Universität Halle and the Universität Jena . In 1920 he was reciprocated in the Corps Neoborussia Halle . Since 1922 in the administrative service of the Prussian State of busy, he was in 1923 by the University of Würzburg to Dr. jur. PhD. It was in 1925 for Regierungsassessor and 1929 the Governing Council appointed. From about 1929 he was an advisor to the government in Aurich . Politically, Marotzke belonged to the German National People's Party since 1919 .

After the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933, Marotzke became head of the Elbing state police station . On July 15, 1934, he was appointed to the Prussian State Ministry , where he was initially used as a consultant for police and municipal matters. In 1936 Marotzke became a consultant for economic issues at Paul Körner , the State Secretary of the Prussian Prime Minister Hermann Göring . In particular, in this capacity he was concerned with questions relating to the four-year plan supervised by Körner for Göring, through which he established close relationships with business circles. When Körner became chairman of the supervisory board of the Hermann-Göring-Werke in 1937 , Marotzke took over the daily detailed work for him. During his time in the State Ministry, Marotzke was promoted quickly, in 1938 to Ministerialdirigent and in 1942 to Ministerialdirektor .

In 1937 Marotzke joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (membership number 5.379.721) and the Schutzstaffel (membership number 290.125). In the SS he reached the rank of SS-Standartenführer as an honorary rank leader on April 20, 1940 , while he had been working for the security service of the Reichsführer SS (SD) since 1936. In 1942 Marotzke switched to the economy - according to his own statements because he had fallen out with Göring in 1941. From October 1942 until the end of the Second World War he was General Director of the Klöckner Group. Since 1943 Marotzke sat on the board of directors of Dresdner Bank , mediated by Martin Bormann . At the end of the war, Marotzke was taken prisoner by the Allies and was later questioned during the Nuremberg Trials .

literature

  • Klaus-Dietmar Henke : The Dresdner Bank in the Third Reich , 2006.
  • Günter Neliba: State Secretary Paul Körner - Goering's assistant in the armaments and war economy . In: Ders .: State Secretaries of the Nazi Regime. Selected essays . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11846-4 , pp. 39-71.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Place of birth and dates of death after searching for graves online
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 106/363
  3. ↑ Dissertation: Nullity and contestability of marriage .
  4. ^ Günter Neliba: State Secretary Paul Körner - Goering's assistant in the armaments and war economy . In: Ders .: State Secretaries of the Nazi Regime. Selected essays . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, pp. 39–71, here p. 52.
  5. ^ Roman Sandgruber : Walther Schieber . A National Socialist career between business, bureaucracy and the SS, in: Reinhard Krammer (Hrsg.): Der Forschende Blick. Contributions to the history of Austria in the 20th century , 2010, p. 253.
personal data
SURNAME Marotzke, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marotzke, Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ministerial official and economic functionary
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildburghausen
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1949
Place of death Aurich