Wolfgang Wetz

Wolfgang Wetz (born April 26, 1903 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † 1945 ) was a German lawyer and administrative officer.

Life and activity

Wetz was a son of the university professor Wilhelm Wetz and his wife Ida, nee Buisson. After attending grammar school in his hometown, which he left with the final exams in spring 1921, Wetz studied political science at the universities of Freiburg and Jena (only in the summer semester of 1922). Following the First State Examination in Law, which he passed in the spring of 1925, he did his legal preparatory service until the beginning of 1928. The following year he completed his formal academic training with the promotion of Dr. jur. from.

After passing the Great State Legal Examination in the spring of 1928, Wetz was accepted into the Baden administration as a government assessor. In March 1936 he was appointed as a government councilor to head Section V 7 (“Aliens Police Matters and Border Security”) in the Main Office of the Security Police. He remained in this position even after the department was transferred to the newly created Reich Security Main Office in 1939, in which it figured as Department IA 7. In this position, in which he was particularly involved in establishing the administrative framework for the persecution of Jews and other minorities, Wetz remained until 1940, most recently in the rank of senior government councilor .

From 1940 until the end of the Second World War , Wetz worked for the Reichsstatthalter in Graz .

Fonts

• Right of peoples to self-determination and protection of national minorities under international law in the Peace Treaties of Versailles and St. Germain en Lay , Freiburg im Breisgau 1929.
• District police regulations and orders for the district of Villingen , Villingen 1933.

literature

• Götz Aly : The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany, 1933-1945 , Munich 2008, p. 776.
• Peter Longerich : Politics of Extermination: An Overall Representation of the National Socialist Persecution of the Jews , Munich 1998.