Willy Ziegler (SA member)

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Willy Ziegler

Willy Ziegler (born July 31, 1899 in Epfenbach , † January 19, 1942 in Orjol ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and SA leader .

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After attending elementary school and the trade school in Heidelberg , Ziegler took part in the First World War with the infantry regiment “Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm” (3rd Badisches) No. 111 . He returned seriously wounded (30% war-damaged).

From 1920 to 1932 Ziegler was an orthopedic mechanic in the clinic workshops of Professors Vulpius and Görres in Heidelberg. From 1925 to 1927 he was a member of the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten .

In the 1920s, Ziegler joined the NSDAP. In October 1930 he became a member of the Heidelberg city council. From July 1932 until his death in 1942 he sat for his party as a member of the German Reichstag, in which he represented constituency 32 (Baden). As a member of parliament, he voted, among other things, for the Enabling Act of March 1933, which legally established the Nazi dictatorship.

In the Sturmabteilung (SA), which Ziegler had joined in 1927, he was appointed leader of Standard 110 (May 1, 1931) and leader of SA Brigade 53 (Black Forest North).

On August 1, 1937, Ziegler was appointed Reich Commissioner for the Use of Waste Materials by Hermann Göring in his capacity as the representative for the four-year plan .

Ziegler died in 1942 as a Wehrmacht soldier in Orjol in the occupied part of the Soviet Union (today Russia ).

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