(1893 – 1945) Nazi Party official who served as the Deputy Gauleiter of Gau Berlin from 1933 to 1943. He was also a member of the German Reichstag and an SA-Gruppenfuhrer. Goebbels, Gauleiter of Berlin, suspected that Gorlitzer sought to replace him and thus had him removed in December, 1943. Gorlitzer and his wife Paula, with Berlin already surrounded by the Red Army, committed suicide there on April 25, 1945. Their son Bruno had fallen at the beginning of 1943 at Stalingrad. Rare S.P., 3.5 x 5.5 in. b/w, a chest, up pose in uniform boldly signed in full and dated '4.Mai 1936'. Fine.