SS-Führer Ausweis der NSDAP – SS-Brigadeführer Dr. Karl Fritsch (Sächsischer Staatsminister des Innern, DRK-Landesführer, SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Division „Totenkopf“)

Extremely rare and unique SS-Führer Ausweis of Dr. Karl Fritsch. The card is held in place by a plastic casing, but is easy to remove if desired. A unique chance to acquire an Ausweis of one of the earlier High ranking NSDAP members.

Below is some additional information about Karl Fritsch taken from the internet:
After graduating from the Humanist Gymnasium in Hof in April and May 1919, Fritsch was a member of the 1st Bavarian Schützen Regiment, which belonged to the Freikorps Epp. In 1920 he took part as a time volunteer of the Reichswehr in fights against armed groups around Max Hoelz in the Vogtland. In 1919, Fritsch was one of the founders of the Hofer local group of the Deutschvölkische Schutz- und Trutzbund. In 1922 he changed to the NSDAP (member number 12.130) and was involved in the founding of the local groups in Erlangen and Hof.

At the University of Erlangen, Fritsch began studying medicine in 1919, but after one semester switched to political science. He was a member of the Baruthia Corps. After a break between 1923 and 1925, Fritsch finished his studies in 1926 with his doctorate on the brewing trade in Hof and the surrounding East Upper Franconian border district”.

In November 1923, Fritsch was deputy district head for Upper Franconia. During the prohibition of the NSDAP as a result of the Hitler coup, he led the Upper Franconian East District of the Völkisch Block. After the re-registration of the NSDAP, Fritsch rejoined the party on 1 June 1926 (member number 43.073)and became district head for Upper Franconia On 1 January 1927, he joined the Gauleitung Sachsen under Gauleiter Martin Mutschmann On 1 February 1928, Fritsch was deputy Gauleiter for Saxony; he held this office until an unknown date between 1933 and 1937. From 1930 to 1933, Fritsch led the NSDAP faction in the Saxon Landtag and became a member of the National Socialist Rights Association.

After the National Socialists seized power, Fritsch was appointed Interior Minister of Saxony on 6 May 1933. In November 1933 he received a mandate in the Reichstag, which was meaningless during the time of National Socialism. He lived in the Villa Hoflößnitzstraße 72 in Oberlößnitz and on 15 January 1934 he joined as SS-Standartenführer in the SS (SS number 127.642) and was promoted to SS-Oberführer on 9 November 1934 and to SS-Brigadeführer on 30 January 1936. Fritsch was also Saxon State Chairman and Chief General of the German Red Cross.

As Saxon Minister of the Interior, Fritsch decreed in 1933 numerous dissolutions and bans of associations and organizations, especially from the labor movement. By November 1933,961 people had been dismissed under the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service Act in the area of his ministry, and a further 106 cases had been initiated. From July 1934 to February 1935, Fritsch represented the Saxon Prime Minister Manfred von Killinger, who had been ousted in connection with the “Röhm Putsch”. In 1935, he supported the ban on Jews from visiting public swimming pools in parts of Saxony. During the National Socialist murders, the Department of Public Care in the Ministry of the Interior was an important interface between the Saxon State Institutions and the Berlin Central Office. Fritsch, who had already advocated forced sterilization in 1933, intervened personally and, for example, arranged for the removal of a chief physician who had resisted the killings.

At the beginning of 1936, Fritsch had accused his wife of “criminal instincts” in a lawsuit against her marriage and justified this by sentencing his mother-in-law for theft. In addition, Fritsch claimed that his father-in-law’s SPD membership had been concealed from him. In the court proceedings it was proven that the father-in-law, as long-standing chairman of the Hofer Brauereigewerkschaft, had supported Fritsch in the preparation of his dissertation. In addition, the wife was able to prove Fritsch’s marital infidelity, so that the proceedings in the second instance ended with divorce, with Fritsch having to bear the costs of the proceedings. Due to the outcome of the trial, Fritsch had made himself ridiculous in many circles of his own party and was “decisively damaged” politically. Allegations of corruption and other sexual escapades” led to Fritsch losing the support of Reichsleiter Martin Bormann and Heinrich Himmler in August 1943. In January 1943, Fritsch had been dismissed as Minister of the Interior by the Gauleiter and Prime Minister Mutschmann and accused of “damaging party behaviour” before the party court.

On 1 February 1943, Fritsch was called up to the Waffen-SS and initially assigned to an anti-aircraft unit in East Prussia. From 12 April to December 1943 he was a member of the SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Division “Totenkopf”, the last rank of an SS-Scharführer of the reserve.
Fritsch committed suicide in April 1944 after the divorce from his second wife in the hospital Dresden-Friedrichstadt. Alfred Fernholz, psychiatrist and head of the “Department of Public Care” at the Ministry of the Interior, claimed in a later report that Fritsch had been marked by a “psychopathic constitution”.