14 Facts About Karl Weinrich

Karl Otto Paul Weinrich was a Nazi Party official and politician who was Gauleiter of Gau Kurhessen.

Karl Weinrich then volunteered for the Prussian army in 1906, assigned to the 28th Infantry Regiment, "von Goeben," working as an administrative clerk and attaining the rank of Sergeant by 1912.

In February 1922 Karl Weinrich joined the Nazi Party and founded local groups in Landau and other towns in the Palatinate.

In May 1923, Karl Weinrich was sentenced by a French military court to four months imprisonment due to his nationalist activities and anti-French agitation.

However, Karl Weinrich fled across the Rhine, settled in Kassel and found employment as a laborer.

Karl Weinrich co-founded the Ortsgruppe in Kassel, becoming the Ortsgruppenleiter.

Karl Weinrich served from 1925 to 1927 as Treasurer and Deputy Gauleiter of Gau Hesse-Nassau North.

Karl Weinrich failed in his bid to be elected to the Prussian Landtag on 20 May 1928.

Karl Weinrich was a holder of the Golden Party Badge.

Shortly after the massive incendiary air raid on Kassel of 22 October 1943, which destroyed the entire city center, Karl Weinrich was charged with failing in Kassel's war preparations and abandoning the city to its fate during the bombing, returning only to check on the condition of his own property.

Karl Weinrich was placed on extended leave from his posts on 6 November 1943 and was retired to his farming estate in Trendelburg for the remainder of the war.

Karl Weinrich's successor was Karl Gerland, then the Deputy Gauleiter in Reichsgau Lower Danube.

Karl Weinrich underwent denazification proceedings and was adjudged to be in Category I, Major Offenders.

Karl Weinrich returned to Trendelburg, then to Hausen and finally back to Kassel at the beginning of the 1960s.