Willy Reichelt

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Willy Reichelt

Willy Reichelt (born December 19, 1880 in Heidelberg , Erzgebirge , † probably on July 17, 1946 in Moscow ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and SA standard leader .

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After attending primary school and an advanced training school, Reichelt worked in agriculture for two years. After being a member of the Schöneberg II Railway Regiment from 1900 to 1902, he went to China for two years as part of the East Asian occupation brigade installed after the Boxer Rebellion . After his return to Germany he was again a member of the Railway Regiment II until 1905.

From 1905 to 1907 Reichelt served in the imperial protection force in South West Africa . He was then transferred to the local police, where he worked until 1914. After the outbreak of World War I , Reichelt returned to the Schutztruppe, with whom he took part in the fighting in Africa until he was taken prisoner by the British in 1915. After the end of the World War, Reichelt was expelled from Africa in 1919 and his farm was confiscated.

Returning to Germany, Reichelt earned his living in the following years as a tax inspector in Marienberg in Saxony and worked for the Saxony Ministry of Economics and Finance. Since 1920 he was active in the nationalist movement. In 1923 he joined the NSDAP and became a local group leader in Marienberg. There he founded a branch of the "Colonial Reichsarbeitsgemeinschaft" (later Reichskolonialbund ) in 1932 .

For the party, he was sent to the Saxon state parliament in 1933 after the " Gleichschaltung " ( Gleichschaltung ). From November 1933 until the end of Nazi rule in spring 1945, Reichelt was a member of the National Socialist Reichstag as a member of constituency 28 ( Dresden - Bautzen ). In the Sturmabteilung (SA) he was in the meantime, from July 1, 1932 to September 30, 1935, entrusted with the management of Standard 244, Marienberg, Upper Ore Mountains.

After the war ended, Reichelt was arrested on May 28, 1945 in Marienberg and interned in Dresden until September 1945. On June 12, 1946, he was sentenced to death by shooting in Moscow by the Military College of the Supreme Court of the USSR for war crimes and “counterrevolutionary activities” . The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet refused the pardon , whereupon the sentence was carried out. The execution probably took place on July 17, 1946 in Moscow.

literature

  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
  • Klaus-Dieter Müller, Thomas Schaarschmidt, Mike Schmeitzner, Andreas Weigelt: Death sentences of Soviet military tribunals against Germans (1944–1947). A historical-biographical study . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-36968-5 , short biographies on the enclosed CD, p. 543f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Weigelt, Klaus-Dieter Müller, Thomas Schaarschmidt, Mike Schmeitzner (eds.): Death sentences of Soviet military tribunals against Germans (1944-1947). A historical-biographical study . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-36968-5 , p. 543 .
  2. ↑ Andreas Weigelt, Klaus-Dieter Müller, Thomas Schaarschmidt, Mike Schmeitzner (eds.): Death sentences of Soviet military tribunals against Germans (1944-1947). A historical-biographical study . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-36968-5 , p. 544 .
personal data
SURNAME Reichelt, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg , Ore Mountains
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 1946
Place of death Moscow