Artur Görlitzer

Artur Görlitzer, sometimes Anglicized as Arthur Goerlitzer, (June 22, 1893 – April 25, 1945) was a Nazi Party official who served as the Deputy Gauleiter of Gau Berlin from 1933 to 1943.

In civilian life Görlitzer continued his career as a civil servant, first again in Lankwitz, and in 1921 at the Berlin city administration.

Because of his political activity he was relieved of office in the Reich Finance Administration in 1930; a disciplinary procedure initiated in November 1931 was discontinued in August 1932.

He went into politics and was elected as a Nazi deputy to the Landtag of Prussia on April 24, 1932, serving until its dissolution on October 14, 1933.

A member of the Nazi paramilitary organization, the Sturmabteilung (SA), Görlitzer attained the rank of SA-Gruppenführer on November 9, 1938.

From 1941, he was the director and manager of the Deutschlandhalle and a supervisory board member of the Deutsche Revisions und Treuhand AG auditing office.

Artur Görlitzer and his wife Paula, with Berlin already surrounded by the Red Army, committed suicide there on April 25, 1945.

In the forefront, L-R: Artur Görlitzer (standing), Joseph Goebbels , Adolf Hitler , and Philipp Bouhler (1936)