Fritz Wächtler
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| Gauleiter of Gau Bayreuth | |
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In office 5 December 1935 – 19 April 1945 |
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| Appointed by | Adolf Hitler |
| Preceded by | Hans Schemm |
| Succeeded by | Ludwig Ruckdeschel |
| Reichswalter of the National Socialist Teachers League |
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In office 5 March 1935 – 17 February 1943 |
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| Appointed by | Adolf Hitler |
| Preceded by | Hans Schemm |
| Succeeded by | Post abolished |
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| Born | 7 January 1891 Triebes, Principality of Reuss-Greiz, German Empire |
| Died | 19 April 1945 (aged 54) Waldmünchen, Nazi Germany |
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 NSDAP
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Fritz Wächtler (7 January 1891 – 19 April 1945) was a Nazi German politician and Gauleiter of the eastern Bavarian administrative region of Gau Bayreuth. Trained as a primary school teacher, he also became head of the National Socialist Teachers League (NSLB) in 1935. During World War II he held the honorary rank of SS-Obergruppenführer and Reich Defense Commissar of Bayreuth. Prone to alcoholic outbursts and unpopular with the local residents, he eventually ran afoul of Martin Bormann in a political intrigue. Wächtler was shot on the orders from the Führerbunker near the end of the war in April, 1945.
Fritz Wächtler was born in 1891 in Triebes, in the Principality of Reuss-Greiz (present-day Thuringia), the son of a watchmaker. Between 1905 and 1911 he attended the Weimar Lehrerseminar, a special training academy for primary school teachers. After two years of teaching activity and military service, in 1914 he became a "one-year volunteer" (German: Einjährigfreiwilliger) on the front during World War I. By 1915 he had been promoted to lieutenant. During the war he received many awards. After the war, Wächtler worked again as a teacher in Thuringia.
Wächtler joined the Nazi Party (Member No. 35,313) in April 1926 and became its founding Local Group Leader (Ortsgruppenleiter) as well as Sturmabteilung leader in his hometown of Triebes. He also became district manager of the party for Weimar-North. In 1929 Wächtler was elected as a member of the Landtag of Bavaria and appointed Deputy Gauleiter and for the district of Thuringia. From August 1932 Wächtler served as Education Minister in the cabinet of the Minister President of Thuringia, Fritz Sauckel.
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