Adolf Wedderwille

Adolf Wedderwille (approx. 1938)

Adolf Wedderwille (born September 25, 1895 in Wedderwillen near Pottenhausen , † May 10, 1947 in Detmold ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

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Wedderwille was the son of a bricklayer. After attending primary school in Iggenhausen, Wedderwille completed a three-year painting and glazing apprenticeship from 1909 and then worked as an assistant in Lage and Hanover . From May 1915 he took part in the First World War with the 99th Infantry Regiment and the 78th Reserve Infantry Regiment, in which he was awarded the Iron Cross of both classes.

In 1919, Wedderwille took over the business of his deceased teacher in Lage, which he ran until October 1933. After making contact with the NSDAP in 1923 , he built up the local SA . He formally joined the NSDAP in early November 1929. In 1932 he took over his first public offices as a city and district council member, as well as chairing the parliamentary group in the district council . In 1933 he was also appointed district leader of the NSDAP in the Detmold district. He retained this function with a brief interruption until the NSDAP districts of Lemgo and Detmold merged into the NSDAP district of Lippe in 1938.

In the state election in Lippe in January 1933 , Wedderwille was elected to the first place in the state parliament. In March of the same year he came to the Lippe State Presidium as deputy head of government, of which he became the de facto head of government. With the district leadership of the NSDAP and the de facto leadership of the state government, the most important positions of power in Lippe were now in the hands of Wedderwille.

In the Reichstag election of November 1933 , Wedderwille was elected to the Reichstag for constituency 17 (Westphalia North) , to which he was a permanent member. In 1938 the Detmold and Lemgo districts were merged as part of the party organization to form the Lippe district. In accordance with the leadership principle of National Socialism , he determined events in the state of Lippe until the end of Nazi rule in May 1945 and was ultimately directly responsible to Adolf Hitler through Gauleiter Alfred Meyer .

On April 3, 1945, the 2nd US Panzer Division approached the city of Detmold from the south. District leader Wedderwille had meanwhile left his post and was disguised as a Volkssturm man and taken prisoner by the Americans . After his release he came to Lemgo at the beginning of November 1945 . There he was recognized, however, and immediately arrested by the British military police. He was taken to the regional court prison in Detmold and after a short time was taken to the Recklinghausen-Hillerheide internment camp. In the summer of 1946 he became seriously ill, so that he was transferred to the Vehlen internment hospital . On September 27, 1946, he was released for incapacity and died on May 10, 1947.

Wedderwilles estate is now stored in the Detmold State Archives .

literature

• Andreas Ruppert, Hansjörg Riechert: Rule and Acceptance - National Socialism in Lippe during the war years. Analysis and documentation . Ed .: Nordrhein-Westfälisches Staatsarchiv Detmold (=  publications of the state archives of North Rhine-Westphalia, Series C: Sources and Research . Volume 41 ). Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89918-020-6 , p. 337 . ( limited preview in Google Book search)
• Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , p. 204. ( Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia. 22, A, 16 = historical work on Westphalian regional research. Economic and social history group. 16)

Web links

• Adolf Wedderwille in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

1. ^ City of Detmold (ed.): Detmold in the post-war period. Documentation of an urban history project. Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 1994, ISBN 3-925670-94-7 , p. 43 f.
2. ^ City of Detmold (ed.): Detmold in the post-war period. P. 58.