Friedrich Uebelhoer
Friedrich Uebelhoer (born 25 September 1893 in Rothenburg ob der Tauber - presumed died 1945) was a German politician and official with the Nazi Party.
Uebelhoer served as an officer in the German Imperial Army in the First World War.[1] He joined the Nazi Party initially in 1922 then again in 1925, following the revocation of the ban placed on the group after the Munich putsch.[2]
He became Kreisleiter in Naumburg (Saale) in 1931.[2] He was Mayor of Naumburg from 1933 to 1939 and also served as head of the National Socialist People's Welfare in Gau Halle-Merseburg.[2]
Uebelhoer held the rank of Brigadeführer in the Schutzstaffel and received commendation for his involvement in the annexation of the Sudetenland and for his part in the Anschluss.[1] Following the occupation of Poland, he served as an inspector in the Reichsgau Wartheland.[2] In Lodz he ordered the construction of the Jewish ghetto on December 10, 1939, a measure he described as only temporary, adding that ultimately the Nazis intended to "burn out this plague dump".[3]
Uebelhoer was dismissed from his post as governor of Lodz in December 1942 after being accused of embezzlement by Arthur Greiser.[1] The charges were ultimately unproven but the suspicion damaged his reputation and halted his advancement in the SS.[1] He would return in January 1944 in the lesser role of governor of the Merseburg district.[1]
Uebelhoer disappeared in the latter days of the Second World War and remained unaccounted for. He was declared legally dead in 1950.[4]
References
- ^ a b c d e Michal Unger, Reassessment of the Image of Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, Wallstein Verlag, 2004, p. 24
- ^ a b c d Ernst Klee, Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Zweite aktualisierte Auflage, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 633.
- ^ Willi Jasper, "‚Wozu noch Welt?‘", Die Zeit 1995
- ^ UEBELHOER, Friedrich
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