Wolfgang Hedler

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Wolfgang Hedler (born November 7, 1899 in Magdeburg , † February 26, 1986 in Stuttgart ) was a German politician from various right-wing parties (including DP , DRP , WAV ).

Life

Hedler belonged to the Stahlhelm during the Weimar Republic and to the NSDAP during the Nazi era . Professionally, he initially worked as a manager at a bank. From 1939 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier . He was seriously wounded and became a Soviet prisoner of war, from which he was released in 1945.

From 1947 he worked as an employee of a church aid organization in Rendsburg . In 1949 he was elected to the Bundestag for the German party . On January 19, 1950, he was expelled from the parliamentary group and party because of pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic statements.

Hedler gained notoriety through a lecture in the "Deutsches Haus" restaurant in Einfeld (today in Neumünster ) on November 26, 1949, in which he insulted the members of the German resistance as "traitors to the fatherland" and denied the German war guilt. He said: “Whether the means of gassing the Jews was the given one can be divided. Perhaps there would have been other ways to get rid of them. ”As a result, a criminal case was brought against Hedler; on January 31, 1950 the trial against him for defamation and denigration began at the district court in Kiel . The judges, themselves former NSDAP members, acquitted Hedler on February 15, 1950, which led to a wave of indignation. In the appeal proceedings on July 20, 1951, Hedler was sentenced to nine months in prison for "public insult in unity with public denigration of the memory of the deceased and with public defamation". Although he put revision in federal court one, but thus failed in May 1952nd

At the Bundestag session on March 10, 1950, Bundestag President Erich Köhler excluded him from participating in the rest of the session immediately after his appearance. He withdrew to the Bundestag quiet room , where SPD deputies led by Herbert Wehner and Rudolf-Ernst Heiland visited him and expelled him using physical violence on the grounds that he was no longer allowed to stay in the Bundestag rooms. As he retreated from them, he fell through a closed glass door and down a flight of stairs, sustaining minor injuries. Wehner and Heiland were thereupon excluded from the sessions of the Bundestag for several days and, after Hedler had started civil proceedings against them, sentenced to pay pain and suffering.

He joined the German Reich Party , from which he left in September 1950. In January 1952 he founded the short-lived National Reich Party with Günter Goetzendorff . At the beginning of March 1952 he negotiated with the leadership of the FDP parliamentary group around August-Martin Euler to join them as an intern. On March 25, 1953 he took part in the re-establishment of the WAV group in the Bundestag, but ran unsuccessfully for the umbrella organization of the National Collection (DNS) in the Bundestag election in the Bundestag constituency of Esslingen and left parliament.

literature

  • Norbert Frei : Politics of the past. The beginnings of the Federal Republic and the Nazi past 2nd edition. Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-42557-7 , pp. 309-325 (chapter on the "Hedler case").
  • Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 318.
  • Andreas Eichmüller: No general amnesty. The prosecution of Nazi crimes in the early Federal Republic. Oldenbourg, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-70412-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hedler, Wolfgang . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Haack to Huys] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 456 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 507 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Calendar page: March 10, 1950 - fight in the Bundestag. In: Spiegel Online . March 10, 2009, accessed March 22, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Bundestag: Out or not? In: Der Spiegel 11/1950. March 14, 1950, pp. 6-7 , accessed March 22, 2020 . 46th meeting, Bonn, Friday, March 10, 1950. (pdf, 1.9 MB) p. 1561 , accessed on March 22, 2020 (minutes).
  4. ^ Christof Brauers: The FDP in Hamburg 1945 to 1953. Start as a bourgeois left party. With a foreword by Hildegard Hamm-Brücher. M-Press Meidenbauer, Munich 2007, p. 557.
personal data
SURNAME Hedler, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DP), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1986
Place of death Stuttgart