Adolf Thormählen

Adolf Thormählen (born February 24, 1892 in Langenhals near Neuendorf , † August 9, 1984 in Glückstadt ) was a German farmer and politician ( NSDAP ).

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Thormählen attended the village school in Langenhals until 1902, then the high school in Glückstadt until 1910 . By 1912, he learned of his father's estate agriculture . After a year in the military with the 5th Thuringian Infantry Regiment in Eisenach , he worked again on his father's estate from 1913 to 1914, and then from August 1914 he participated in the First World War as a member of the Reserve Replacement Regiment 3 . After fighting in Ypres and Flanders , he was treated in the hospital in November and December 1914 for a dysentery disease. In January 1915 he joined the 263rd regiment and fought in Ypres, Dirmuiden and on the Somme. He was promoted to lieutenant in May and wounded in June. In 1916 he became a pilot and was later awarded the Iron Cross of both classes. In 1918 Thormählen was taken prisoner by the French.

After his release in 1920 he became a farm owner in Strohdeich near Steinburg. In 1921 he became a member of the board of the farmers 'association and in 1928 that of the farmers' union. In addition, there were activities as spokesman for the Schleswig-Holstein State Farmers' Association and since 1929 as a member of the district council in the Steinburg district and from 1930 as a member of the district committee.

From 1930 to 1932 and again from 1933 (i.e. during the 5th, 6th and 8th legislative periods of the Weimar Republic) Thormählen was a member of the Reichstag in Berlin as a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), with constituency 13 (Schleswig -Holstein). In 1933 he voted for the Enabling Act .

Web links

• Adolf Thormählen in the database of members of the Reichstag