Otto Hellmuth (* 22. July 1896 in market home; "† 1968 in Reutlingen) were gau leader of the NSDAP and head of the provincial government von Mainfranken in the third realm.

Youth and war

Dr. Otto Hellmuth was born on 22 July 1896 in market a home (district Kitzingen, Lower Franconia) as a son of an upper course master.

In the parents' house strictly catholic educated, he took after the maturity examination as a Freiwilliger in the age of 18 years at the 1. World war part. It received the EK II as well as 1918 the wounding badge in silver.

Study and occupation

After end of war it began the study of the dental medicine in Freiburg in mash gau and peppering castle, which it dent 1922 with its graduation as Dr. med. locked. Subsequently, it operated a dental practice in market broad, where it was selected starting from 1924 into the town councillor.

Political beginnings

Already in the year 1919 Hellmuth worked also politically, fought in the circle military regiment "to peppering castle "against the soviet republic and created the combat federation "Franconia country ", which was integrated later into the SA. 1920 it became member in "the German protection and Trutzbund "and here already made a small career 1922 as a circle leader of Lower Franconia and starting from 1923 as a gau leader of north Bavaria. Thus Hellmuth won the well-known right-wing extremist speaker Andrea Ellendt for a meeting in the Hutten garden, originating from Mexico, on 17 December 1922.

At a very early time Hellmuth of the NSDAP with the member NR stepped. 22815 in the year 1922 and worked also here actively. This party-political commitment strengthened after dissolution "of the German protection and Trutzbundes "still. Its actual career began however only on 03 September 1928 with its appointment as the gau leader of the NSDAP in Lower Franconia. In the year after it became member of the Bavarian federal state parliament. On 19 November 1930 Hellmuth initiated a protest demonstration against the performance of the piece of on ski, planned in the city theatre, "Dybuk "by Jewish Muscovites the national theatre "Habima ". Only by substantial police employment the disturbances by speech choirs of several hundred Protestierern and the penetration by force in the theatre could be prevented and the evening performance be guaranteed. Annoyances did not remain saved for the predominantly Jewish playgoers after end of the conception.

"Ritual murder "in Manau

To the already early trained characteristics Hellmuths belonged beside a radical Antiklerikalismus, which possibly explains itself by the stressed strict catholic education, its irrational Jew hate. It already spread 1919 as a member "of the German protection and Trutzbundes "anti-Semitic handbills in market broad. But only the so-called "ritual murder of Manau "offered the opportunity to it to form itself as strammen Antisemiten. Background was the murder at the four years old boy Karl Kessler to 17. March 1929 in Manau with Hofheim/Ufr. The rumor, which was child a Jewish ritual murder to the victim pleases, arisen in the small took up the eager gau leader willingly and wrote as a special correspondent of the notorious anti-Semitic rushing sheet "the "an article, in which abstruse statements were verquickt over Jewish customs for the use of people blood with the Mazzenbacken with details of the crime. Although the public prosecutor's office proceeded from a Lustmord and rejected the ritual murder accusations, it succeeded to anti-Semitic propaganda Hellmuths, a large part of the population among other things with the free distribution "of the "and a mass meeting in the Hutten garden in peppering castle on 30 April 1929 under the slogan "the historical truth about the Jewish blood murders "to thus instigate that beside the church also the law intervened and "the "- publisher Julius Streicher because of the rushing campaign to a mehrmonatigen detention condemned. Hellmuth as authors in the background could not be sued however. Even later Hellmuth tried to transfer years then than gau leaders and head of the provincial government von Unterfranken and Aschaffenburg a Jewish religion teacher and a than authors. Despite application of the well-known Gestapomethoden neither the proof of its complicity furnished, still the case could be cleared up. The murderer is not today well-known until. In Manau 1930 a so-called murder stone at the discovery site of the child corpse were set up and held in each case starting from 1937 at the day of death small Karl a propagandistic commemoration ceremony.

Gau leader and head of the provincial government

Briefly after the seizure of power of the national socialists Hellmuth drew as a delegate into Reichstag. To its past ranks and titles as gau leaders, SA banner leaders and NSKK still that of the head of the provincial government von Unterfranken and Aschaffenburg and/or Mainfranken came to renaming the governmental district on 1 July 1937 on 1 July 1934. (The term "Main Franconias "originates from the 20's. The political gau 1934 were already designated in such a way). , Hellmuth at the 11 forced already three weeks before the first large realm-far boycott action against Jews. March 1933 in peppering castle the occasional locking of Jewish business, Kanzleien and practices.

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