Wolfgang Weigert

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Wolfgang Weigert (born October 24, 1893 in Zeitlarn , Upper Palatinate , † June 24, 1974 ) was a primary school teacher and from 1933 to 1945 district leader of the NSDAP in Regensburg .

Life

Wolfgang Weigert completed training as a teacher for elementary schools, which he completed in 1919. He found his first job in a Regensburg school in the Steinweg district .

Working under National Socialism

He joined the NSDAP at the end of the 1920s. In 1929 he ran for the city council of Regensburg, which he after the DC circuit belonged since April 1933 as a faction leader. He had held office as NSDAP district leader since 1932, when he replaced Wilhelm Brodmerkel in this position. In March 1934 Weigert was elected by the city council for ten years to the city school council, where he also exercised the office of the district school council. In his role as the municipal school council, he was responsible for twelve elementary schools, the girls' lyceum and the vocational training school.

On the night of November 9th to 10th, 1938, Weigert was organizationally involved in the destruction of the Regensburg synagogue (today's location: Am Brixener Hof ) in the course of the November pogroms and was on site together with Mayor Otto Schottenheim . At the end of 1943 he was given leave of absence at the request of Gauleiter Fritz Wächtler and devoted himself full-time to the position of district leader. When on April 23, 1945 a demonstration wanted to march in front of the headquarters of the Regensburg district leader to demand the surrender of the city without a fight, Weigert had the meeting dissolved and the priest and cathedral preacher Johann Maier arrested, who wanted to appease the demonstrators. Maier was brought before a court martial on the same day , in which Weigert took part, and executed the next day for " high treason ". At the end of the war in Regensburg at the end of April, Weigert left a few days before the surrender, first to Kempten and then to Munich .

Legal disputes after the Nazi era

Because of his involvement in the synagogue arson and the judicial murder of Johann Maier, he was sentenced to 18 and 21 months in prison in two criminal trials, in 1948 and 1949, before the regional court . As a leading NSDAP functionary, Weigert was classified as an incriminated activist by both the Chamber of Judges and the Chamber of Appeals for denazification . In the retrial before the Munich Main Chamber in 1953, Weigert achieved a revocation of his classification as an incriminated person and thus the requirement for a state pension as a main teacher.

From 1957 the city of Regensburg granted him a maintenance contribution at the instigation of the mayor Hans Herrmann until his death.

literature

  • Helmut Halter: City under the swastika. Local politics in Regensburg during the Nazi era (published by the museums and the archive of the city of Regensburg), Universitätsverlag Regensburg, 1994, ISBN 3-9803470-6-0 .
  • Christian Feldmann: The cathedral preacher. Dr. Johann Maier - a life in the resistance . Mittelbayerische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Regensburg 1995, ISBN 3-927529-72-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Halter, Stadt unterm Hakenkreuz , 1994, p. 99.
  2. ↑ Helmut Halter, Stadt unterm Hakenkreuz , 1994, p. 100.
  3. ↑ Helmut Halter, Stadt unterm Hakenkreuz , 1994, p. 101.

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personal data
SURNAME Weigert, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Nazi functionary
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Time warning
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1974