Wilhelm Wetzel (politician)
Wilhelm Wetzel (born October 8, 1902 in Oberhausen ; † January 22, 1976 in Lüneburg ) was a German local politician of the NSDAP and Lord Mayor of the city of Lüneburg from 1936 to 1945.
Wetzel studied law and became a councilor in the Harburg tax office. On August 1, 1931, he joined the NSDAP. In the spring of 1933 he became chairman of the Harburg-Wilhelmsburg town hall faction, then a paid senator there . In the Gauleitung he rose to the head of the office for local politics and in 1936 was Lord Mayor of Lüneburg. According to the Greater Hamburg Law, with the assignment of Harburg-Wilhelmsburg on April 1, 1937, the city became the seat of the Gauleiter in the Gau East Hanover under his sponsor Otto Telschow . At the end of the war he was taken prisoner in Yugoslavia , from which he was released in 1951.
After 1951 Wetzel, who had worked as a lawyer since 1952, sat for the FDP in the Lüneburg City Council, from 1957 as parliamentary group chairman, and was district chairman of the " Association of Returnees, Prisoners of War and Members of Missing Persons in Germany ". There he advocated the return of all prisoners of war from the USSR and emphasized the German victims in the world war.
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- Elmar Peter: The Mayors, Lord Mayors and City Directors of the City of Lüneburg , 2004
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945? Edition Kramer. Frankfurt am Main, (2010), p. 673f
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| SURNAME | Wetzel, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (NSDAP) and Lord Mayor of Lüneburg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oberhausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 22nd January 1976 |
| Place of death | Luneburg |