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Place of Birth: Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
About Fritz Weitzel
- Fritz Weitzel (27 April 1904 – 19 June 1940) was a German SS commander during the Nazi era. Weitzel became a member of the Nazi Party in 1925 and of SS in 1926.
- In 1930 he was promoted leader of the SS in the Rheinland and Ruhr.
- He became Polizeipräsident in Düsseldorf in 1933, and Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer West in 1938.
- During 1939 Weitzel wrote the book Celebrations of the SS Family which described the holidays to be celebrated and how married SS men and their families should celebrate them.
- This book, written by Weitzel, described how the Julleuchter, a Yuletide gift by Himmler to the SS, should be used.
- Following the German invasion of Norway on 9 April 1940, Weitzel was sent to Norway on 21 April to become Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer in the country's capital, Oslo.
- However, he was killed two months later by shrapnel in an aerial attack on his home town, Düsseldorf, during a visit on 19 June 1940.
- He is buried in the cemetery at Düsseldorf.
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