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Fritz Wchtler 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 in 1935. During World War II he held the honorary rank of SSObergruppenfhrer 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. Wchtler was shot on the orders from the Fhrerbunker near the end of the war in April, 1945.

Fritz Wchtler was born in 1891 in Triebes, in the Principality of ReussGreiz , 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 oneyear volunteer 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, Wchtler worked again as a teacher in Thuringia.

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