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Philipp Baetzner or Bätzner (* May 15th, 1897 in Walddorf - † January 10th, 1961) was a German Gauamtsleiter in the NSDAP during World War II.

Life
Baetzner visited seven years elementary school and subsequently trained as a carpenter. At the same time he attended a trade school. After the final examination, he was drafted in March 1916 for field artillery and was from June 1916 to November 1918 a soldier on the Western Front. In February 1919, he was discharged as a corporal from the army. In the fall of 1919, he passed the master's examination as a carpenter. In 1920 he opened with his brother, a carpenter in Nagold, which went bankrupt in 1927. Baetzner been married since 1922; of the marriage were born three children.

Baetzner was probably part of the first members founded in the early summer of 1923 NSDAP group in Nagold. After the Nazi ban, he joined the party on August 8, 1927 at (membership no. 65883). In the same year he founded the Sturmabteilung (SA) in Nagold. In the late 1920s was as NSDAP district manager for the Baetzner top offices Freudenstadt, Herrenberg , Horb and Nagold responsible. In 1928 he was elected to the council of Nagold and was the first Württemberg NSDAP member with a local political mandate. On April 24, 1932 Baetzner member of the Württemberg Landtag.

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists took Baetzner 1933 as sub-inspector in the persecution of regime opponents in the upper offices Calw, Freudenstadt, Nagold and Neuenbuerg. In November 1933 he received a mandate for the constituency of 31 Nazi Reichstag, where he remained until 1945. Between 1933 and 1945 Baetzner was a part-time district leader of the NSDAP in Nagold; In June 1937 he also took over the circle Horb and 1943 the Calw. On 1 May 1937 he became the SA Standard Commander promoted. From 1st April 1933 to March 1939 Baetzner President who was the Chamber of Crafts of Reutlingen. [1] the mid-1930s he was the country craftsmen for seasoning. On February 18, 1939, he became president of the Stuttgart Chamber of Crafts, also head of the Chamber of Commerce Department of Württemberg and Hohenzollern in Stuttgart. From 1943 to 1945 he was Gauhandwerksmeister for the Gau Württemberg-Hohenzollern.

When the war ended Baetzner fled across the Allgäu by Vorarlberg. There he was taken prisoner by French forces; by autumn 1948 Baetzner was in custody. In June 1948, he was the District Court of Rottweil as ringleader in the Kristallnacht in 1938 sentenced to 18 months in prison. According to findings of the Court Baetzner had the commands for the desecration of synagogues in Rexingen and Mühringen granted. He also had egged on 10 November with a speech in Horb SA members to further riots that then the synagogue in Baisingen devastated. In the denazification was Baetzner in March 1950 in the group II ("Loaded") classified. After his release, he moved to Nagold. There was Baetzner, who had been a widow since the summer of 1945, a second marriage.