Fritz Philip
- Weitzel, Fritz Philip
Polizeipresident und SS Obergruppenführer. Höhere SS und Polizei Führer Nord.
- 27-04-1904, Frankurt am Main.
- Germany.
- 19-06-1940, killed, age 36, Düsseldorf.
Düsseldorf, Nordfriedhof. Feld 89-Grab 696.
Weitzel, Fritz Philip
Fritz Philp Weitzel, born 27-04-1904 in Frankfurt am Main, became a member of Nazi Party in 1925 and of SS in 1926. In 1930 he was promoted to leader of SS in 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 along with how married SS men and their family’s should celebrate them. This book written by Weitzel described how the Julleuchter should be used, which was a Yuletide gift by Himmler (see Himmler) to the SS. Following the German invasion of Norway on 09-04-1940, Weitzel was brought to Norway on 21 April to become Höherer SS- und Polizei Führer in the country's capital, Oslo. He would not last in this position for long, however, as he died, age 36 on 19-06-1940, in an aerial attack on his home town Düsseldorf during a visit there in June 1940. 
Like Richard Walther Darré (see Darré), Weitzel was one of the key figures concerning the cultural aspects of the SS. His efforts helped Himmler with what he call the “arteigene Kultur”, which was the recreated German pagan religion.
Fritz Weitzel is buried with his wife Betty, born Wengenroth, who died age 86, on 04-08-1998, on the North cemetery of Düsseldorf. Close by are the graves of different “famous” WW II personalities, General Martin Bieber (see Bieber), Hitler’s Press Chief Otto Dietrich (see Dietrich), Alfred Erhard (see Erhard), the former commander of concentration camp Westerbork, in the Netherlands Albert Gemmeker (see Gemmeker), Anna Frank (see Anna Frank) and her family, father, mother and sister Margo, were integrated in this camp, before leaving to Bergen Belsen, where they died, father Otto Frank survived, he died old age 91, on 19-08-1980,
Like Richard Walther Darré (see Darré), Weitzel was one of the key figures concerning the cultural aspects of the SS. His efforts helped Himmler with what he call the “arteigene Kultur”, which was the recreated German pagan religion.
Fritz Weitzel is buried with his wife Betty, born Wengenroth, who died age 86, on 04-08-1998, on the North cemetery of Düsseldorf. Close by are the graves of different “famous” WW II personalities, General Martin Bieber (see Bieber), Hitler’s Press Chief Otto Dietrich (see Dietrich), Alfred Erhard (see Erhard), the former commander of concentration camp Westerbork, in the Netherlands Albert Gemmeker (see Gemmeker), Anna Frank (see Anna Frank) and her family, father, mother and sister Margo, were integrated in this camp, before leaving to Bergen Belsen, where they died, father Otto Frank survived, he died old age 91, on 19-08-1980,
remarried in Bazel, Switzerland. Also buried there are Hitler’s favourite architects Hermann Giesler (see Hermann Giesler)+(see Paul Giesler) and Arno Breker (see Breker), General Fritz Kühne (see Kühne), Ernst von Rath (see Rath), killed in Paris by the Jewish boy Grynspan, and General Walther Nehring (see Nehring
