Wolfgang Eymer

Wolfgang Eymer (born June 12, 1905 in Frankfurt am Main ; † September 20, 1969 in Lübeck ) was a German lawyer and politician ( NSDAP ) as well as an SS standard leader and functionary of the National Socialist Old Masters Association of German Students (NSAHB) .

Life and work

After graduating from high school, Eymer began studying law at the universities of Marburg , Berlin and Greifswald , which he successfully completed with the first state examination in law. Afterwards, Eymer began his legal preparatory service as a trainee lawyer, which he finished with the second state examination. During his studies in Marburg he was active in the Corps Irminsul , of which he belonged until his death.

After completing his legal traineeship, Eymer first became a trial reporter at the Supreme Party Court of the NSDAP in November 1935 and from April 1936 was chairman of the Pomeranian Gau Court , which, as a party court, was a separate branch of the state courts from the implementation of the directive in 1934 according to the law on the alignment of party and state educated. In 1939 he was also a district judge in Stettin . Thanks to the protection of other high-ranking members of the NSDAP group of " old fighters " and SS officers as well as fraternity students, Eymer was promoted directly to the Higher Regional Court Council in November 1943, despite the rejection of his application for promotion by Reich Justice Minister Otto Georg Thierack in a declaration from March 1943 , although the direct promotion from the District Court Council to the Higher Regional Court Council violated the general principle of legal administration at the time.

When the Red Army was close to Stettin, he managed to escape to Westphalia , where he was followed by his family from a Danish refugee camp. Because of his active work in the NSDAP, he lost his civil service status after the war.

In his new home in Lübeck he built a new life for his family of seven.

Eymer was the father of the later Lübeck member of the Bundestag Ekkehart Eymer .

Political career

Eymer was an active member of the NSDAP ( membership number 182.243). In the SS (membership number 15.432) Eymer rose to SS-Sturmführer on June 18, 1934 and later to SS-Standartenführer . By joining the NSDAP in 1928 , he was also a member of the so-called old fighters of the NSDAP, that is, he was one of the first active fighters for National Socialism when the NSDAP had received 2.6 percent of the vote in the 1928 Reichstag elections. In 1943 he rose to the position of chairman of the National Socialist Altherrenbund (NSAHB) and in 1944 he became chairman of the National Court of Honor of the NSAHB, where he campaigned for the reintroduction of the student scale in the comradeships of the NSDStB .

Eymer was also city councilor of the Hanseatic city of Stettin from 1943 to 1945 .

With his exposed position in the Nazi regime, he was included in the collection of data on Key Nazis , personnel of the NSDAP and the SS in key positions compiled by John Franklin Carter for President Franklin D. Roosevelt .

literature

• Peter Lindemann: Pomeranian Jurisdiction - Higher Regional Court District Stettin , 2007, p. 45 ff.
• Federal Archives R 22 Pers. 55600; I p8 E 673.
• Hartmut Elers & Andreas Walther: 125 years Corps Irminsul , Hamburg 2005.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from January 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Eymer in the 6th Sta. SS.
2. ↑ Wolfgang Eymer at www.dws-xip.pl
3. ^ [1] in "Career advancement through membership" in "Higher Regional Court District Stettin Beginnings-Third Reich-Postwar"
4. ^ Entry in: President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Office Files 1933-1945, Part 5: The John Franklin Carter Files on German Nazi Party Members, Reel 18, List of Key Nazis, p. 27, Entry 0554. In: Microfilm Edition of Research Collections in American Politics. Microfilms from Major Archival and Manuscript Collections, General Editor: William E. Leuchtenburg