Friedrich "Fritz" Philip Weitzel was a German SS-Obergruppenfuhrer and Nazi Party politician during the Nazi era.
11 Facts About Fritz Weitzel
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Fritz Weitzel was killed in an air raid early in the Second World War.
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In 1926, Weitzel became one of the earliest members of the Schutzstaffel.
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Fritz Weitzel helped form and lead the SS unit in Frankfurt and in 1927 he was in charge of the SS in Gau Hesse-Nassau Sud.
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Fritz Weitzel would be reelected from there several times until the election of 1936 when he switched to constituency 22, the seat he held until his death.
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On 12 May 1932, Fritz Weitzel was involved in a physical attack on the journalist Helmuth Klotz in the Reichstag restaurant.
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Under Fritz Weitzel, there were extremely brutal attacks by the police, SS and SA against their political opponents in the city.
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Fritz Weitzel was made head of the SS and police court in Dusseldorf.
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Only two months later, Fritz Weitzel was fatally injured by shrapnel in an RAF air raid on Dusseldorf while he was home on leave.
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At the time of his death, Fritz Weitzel was the fourth most senior officer in the SS.
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Fritz Weitzel was given a lavish state funeral in Dusseldorf, in which the Chief of the Ordnungspolizei, SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Kurt Daluege, the Rhenish Oberpresident and Reichskommissar for Norway Josef Terboven and Dusseldorf Gauleiter Friedrich Karl Florian all took part.