Friedrich Wambsganss, known as "Fritz" Wambsganss was a German schoolteacher, a Nazi Party official, an SA-Oberfuhrer in the Nazi paramilitary organization, the Sturmabteilung, and a Protestant synod president.
14 Facts About Friedrich Wambsganss
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Friedrich Wambsganss then went to the teacher training institute in Kaiserslautern from 1899 to 1904 and in 1908 became an elementary school assistant teacher.
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Friedrich Wambsganss then entered military service as a one-year volunteer with the 23rd Royal Bavarian Infantry Regiment.
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Friedrich Wambsganss entered service as a Leutnant and held positions as a platoon leader, a mess officer, deputy battalion adjutant, and deputy battalion commander.
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Friedrich Wambsganss received the Iron Cross, 1st and 2nd class and was discharged at the end of the war with the rank of Oberleutnant.
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Friedrich Wambsganss joined the Nazi Party when the ban on it was lifted in early 1925.
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Friedrich Wambsganss co-founded the Party Ortsgruppe in Kaiserslautern and was named the first Gauleiter of Gau Rheinpfalz in February 1925.
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Friedrich Wambsganss served as Gauleiter for just over one year and was succeeded by Josef Burckel on 13 March 1926.
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Friedrich Wambsganss held the position of chairman of the National Socialist Teachers League in the Gau from 1931 to 1935.
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Friedrich Wambsganss continued in his roles as Gau education leader and NSLB chairman in the expanded Gau.
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Friedrich Wambsganss took on a regional governmental post, becoming leader of the Department for Culture and Education under Josef Burckel who, in addition to being Gauleiter, was the Commissioner for the Reintegration of the Saar Region.
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From 1933 to 1937 Friedrich Wambsganss was active in the German Christians movement.
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Friedrich Wambsganss became the SA-Fuhrer in Kaiserslautern, being promoted to SA-Standartenfuhrer on 9 November 1934 and SA-Oberfuhrer on 9 November 1937.
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On 31 December 1950, Friedrich Wambsganss retired with a civil service pension.