Wolfgang Saalfeldt

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Wolfgang Saalfeldt (born October 9, 1890 in Berlin ; † 1953 ), a surgeon and gynecologist by profession, was from 1930 local group leader (OGL) and district leader of the NSDAP in Eutin, which belonged to the Lübeck region . Shortly after his appointment there were rumors that Saalfeldt was of "Jewish" descent. When his Jewish descent was "officially" established in 1932, Saalfeld was withdrawn from the office of district leader and he was also expelled from the NSDAP. A little later, Saalfeldt was personally accepted back into the NSDAP by Adolf Hitler . He even received party offices again at times. In 1937 he was sentenced to several years in prison for commercial abortion and again expelled from the NSDAP.

War years in the First World War

After visiting the Andrew's Grammar School in Berlin-Friedrichshain he studied in Erlangen medicine and gained in Kiel the state exam. At the beginning of the First World War he worked in Kiel in the care of the wounded. Then he was drafted into the medical service as a war assistant doctor in Flensburg . But since he suffered from a heart condition, he was spared the front line.

After the end of the war he moved to Eutin, where he established himself as a specialist in surgery and as a gynecologist. He became a member of the DNVP and the Stahlhelm . When he received news of the Hitler-Ludendorff putsch in November 1923 , he took part in a meeting in Hamburg to take part in the “March on Berlin”.

Promotion in the NSDAP

In 1924 he joined the Völkisch-Soziale Block in order to become a member of the NSDAP and SA after its dissolution in 1928 . In Eutin he worked as a convinced and indomitable National Socialist. In doing so, he probably also wanted to compensate for his feeling that he had not served as a combatant in the war, which could be considered a flaw in the militarist NSDAP.

He had also grown up illegitimately from a teacher, although he had not gotten to know his father better. Nevertheless, he rose to the position of local group leader and district leader in the NSDAP Eutin. He was elected to the city council of Eutin and acted there as group leader. His career in the SA began as a doctor of SA Standard XI. Then he was transferred to the staff of SA Oberführer Eutin. From January 1, 1931, he served as a doctor in the SA subgroup Nordmark.

Allegation of Jewish descent

At the beginning of 1932 he was confronted with a teacher's claim that his father was of Jewish descent. Saalfeldt publicly referred to this claim as defamation . In a lawsuit by the teacher before the Neustadt district court , proof of the allegation could be provided, so that Saalfeldt was sentenced to a fine on August 16, 1932.

When Saalfeldt questioned the authenticity of the evidence, however, on October 15, 1932, Walter Buch , the chairman of the investigative and conciliation committee of the Reich leadership of the NSDAP , received notification from the Party Office for Race Issues and Ancestry Research that he was of Jewish descent. His membership in the NSDAP was thus invalid and he was expelled from the party.

Rehabilitation and act of grace by Hitler

Nevertheless, Saalfeldt was able to continue his work on the city council for the NSDAP. In the election on May 22, 1933, he was confirmed as a city councilor and held the office of deputy mayor in Eutin. But the "rehabilitation" of the excluded party member was only now really getting on a new path. Buch informed the Gauleitung of Schleswig-Holstein in a letter dated December 7, 1933 that under special conditions an act of grace by the Führer would be possible if the person concerned had distinguished himself “on the basis of outstanding service to the movement”, even if he had a “ Jewish origin ”(Nazi jargon) was.

So what happened, probably unique, that after a decision of the Supreme Party Court of the NSDAP on July 9, 1934, which Hitler personally signed, Saalfeldt was accepted back into the NSDAP. However, he was no longer allowed to be appointed to any party office. But after another five years, the end of his party membership was in sight. On March 22, 1939, the Hamburg jury sentenced him to three years and nine months in prison for having had two abortions .

With the decision of July 31, 1944, the Supreme Party Court of the NSDAP in Munich informed him that he would be expelled from the NSDAP for good.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sebastian Lehmann: District leader of the NSDAP in Schleswig-Holstein. Résumés and rulership practices of a regional power elite. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89534-653-8 , p. 85.
personal data
SURNAME Saalfeldt, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German National Socialist
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1953