Wilhelm Wolf (putschist)

Wilhelm Wolf (born October 19, 1898 in Munich ; † November 9, 1923 there ) was a German Nazi putschist. He became known as one of the killed participants in the Hitler coup of 1923, to whom Adolf Hitler later dedicated the first volume of his book Mein Kampf .

Life

The putschists killed on November 9, 1923 were honored between 1933 and 1945 as " martyrs of the movement " and at the same time instrumentalized by Nazi propaganda ; Wolf 1st row from the top, 4th from the left.

After finishing school, Wolf first graduated from the waiter's school (or completed an apprenticeship in his parents' company). During the First World War , Wolf served in the 2nd Infantry Regiment on the Western Front from 1916 . After two months at the front, he was wounded by a poison gas attack , making him temporarily blind. After a year of convalescence , he was trained as a patient carrier, but was no longer deployed due to the turmoil of the revolution at the end of the war. After the end of the war, he joined his parents' company as a businessman. He became a member of the 3rd regiment of the Freikorps Marine Brigade Ehrhardtand participated in the suppression of the Munich Soviet Republic and remained in the Freikorps until its dissolution in April 1920. In 1920 he became a member of the NSDAP . In the same year he joined the Freikorps Epp and participated in the armed actions in Berlin and Upper Silesia . He then became a member of the Bund Oberland , with which he took part in the Hitler putsch. In the course of the crackdown on the putsch by the state police , he died on November 9, 1923 at around 12:30 p.m.

Hitler dedicated the first volume of his book Mein Kampf to Wolf and 15 other killed coup participants in 1925 , where they were named in the foreword. After the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933 was at the Feldherrnhalle a plaque with the names of such persons placed in Munich, by a guard of honor of the SS was honored. Every passer-by who passed this board was obliged to honor it with the Hitler salute. In 1935, two "Temples of Honor" were erected on Königsplatz as a common grave for this group of people. In the same year Wolf was exhumed , taken there along with the rest of the dead and reburied in bronze sarcophagi . Until 1945 they were included in the National Socialist cult of the " martyrs of the movement ".

During the Nazi era, a number of streets in the German Reich were named after Wilhelm Wolf. There was a Wilhelm-Wolf-Strasse from 1935 in Homburg (renamed after the Second World War to Bruchstrasse ) and from 1936 in Jena (renamed on 10 July 1945 to Otto-Zachau-Strasse ). In 1937 in Gelsenkirchen (renamed on June 15, 1946 to Rembrandtstrasse) and on April 20, 1939, the former connecting road in Recklinghausen (renamed on April 30, 1945 to connecting road , today's name (since November 3, 1953): Andreasstrasse ) was named after him .

literature

• A.-K. Busch: Blood witnesses: a contribution to the practice of political conflicts in the Weimar Republic. 2., revised. u. exp. Edition. Nordland-Verlag, Fretterode 2010, ISBN 978-3-9812409-0-0 , p. 67 (scientifically unsecured).
• Calendar of German Labor. Verl. D. German Labor Front, Berlin 1935, p. 52.
• Hans Volz: dates of the history of the NSDAP. 5th edition. Ploetz, Berlin [a. a.] 1935, p. 9.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Hermann Bethge: The leader and his work: core materials, central ideas and suggestions , vol. 3: A leader rises (years of combat). Zickfeldt, Osterwied (Harz) / Berlin 1928, p. 74.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Markus Weidner: Wolf, Wilhelm . In: The street naming practice in Westphalia and Lippe during National Socialism: Database of street naming 1933-1945 . Retrieved June 19, 2016.
3. ^ Rainer Freyer, with the assistance of Gerhard Bungert: Street names: Multiple street renaming on the Saar . Retrieved June 19, 2016.