Willi Ehlers

The title of this article is ambiguous. For other people with the same name, see Wilhelm Ehlers .

Wilhelm Ehlers (born March 3, 1905 in Hopen, Dithmarschen , † 1941 in Russia) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

Live and act

Ehlers was a bank clerk. In 1926 he joined the NSDAP. He founded the NSDAP local group St. Michaelisdonn . In 1927 he became district leader in Dithmarschen . In 1928, in collaboration with Bodo Uhse and the 'deputy Gauleiter' and local group leader of the NSDAP Paul Schneider, he was involved in the founding of the Schleswig-Holstein daily newspaper in Itzehoe , of which he headed the provincial editorial office.

After Bodo Uhse's dismissal in 1930, Ehlers became the chief editor of the newspaper, and in 1933 of the NS-Gauverlag. He lived for a short time in the house at Lessingstrasse 8, the same as his colleague Bodo Uhse , and later rented a room near the editorial office at Koriansberg 4. He took over the management of the Schleswig-Holstein regional association in the Reich Association of the German Press. At the same time he was a city councilor for the NSDAP in Itzehoe.

Ehlers ran on the nomination of the NSDAP in the back seat with the number 677 in the election to the German Reichstag on November 12, 1933, but did not enter the National Socialist Reichstag .

He died in the autumn of 1941 as a "special leader" in Russia.

literature

• Reimer Möller: A coastal region in political and social upheaval (1860-1933) , p. 539 [1]
• Bodo Uhse: Life and Death of a Unterführer (1942), in: Bodo Uhse. Collected works in individual editions. Vol. 1. Berlin: Aufbau Verlag, 1974, p. 604 ff.
• Bodo Uhse: Open letter to Germany. To the chief editor of the "Schleswig-Holsteinische Tageszeitung" Willi Ehlers, Itzehoe (approx. 1936), ibid, p. 601 ff.