Adolf von Oeynhausen

Baron Friedrich Adolf Karl August Roderich von Oeynhausen (born August 27, 1877 in Holthausen , Büren district ; † June 7, 1953 at Gut Grevenburg in Sommersell near Nieheim ) was a German government official and SS leader.

Life

Adolf von Oeynhausen came from the Westphalian noble family von Oeynhausen . He was the son of Börries von Oeynhausen, a former district administrator in the Büren district . After graduating from the Pforta State School , Oeynhausen studied law and political science at the Universities of Lausanne, Munich, Berlin and Marburg. After the legal traineeship he worked a. a. as an unskilled worker on the board of the Hessen-Nassau State Insurance Company. During the First World War , from 1914 to 1917 he was a delegate to the Imperial Military Inspector of Voluntary Nursing and from 1915 to 1919 he headed the committee for German prisoners of war in Upper Silesia. In 1912 he had already become a member of the financial administration. After the World War he rose to the senior government council and head of the tax office in Hildesheim . 1924 Oeynhausen was the staff reduction Regulation victim and was discharged. Then he took care of the management of the Grevenburg family estate.

At the instigation of the NSDAP Gauleiter Alfred Meyer, Oeynhausen was appointed provisionally on April 1, 1933 and finally as district president on June 16, 1933, because he was considered a reliable National Socialist.

At the time of the German Empire Oeynhausen was a member of the German Conservative Party and belonged to the district council of the Höxter district from 1907 to 1918 . After the end of the First World War, he worked in the Escherich organization and the Westphalia Federation. Then he was a member of the DNVP and later its paramilitary organization Stahlhelm . At the beginning of September 1931 he became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 623.499). Later he was u. a. Expert advisor for civil servants' questions. He was a member of the Association of National Socialist German Jurists (BNSDJ), the NSV and the Reich Colonial Association . He also was a supporting member of the SS , met in November 1937, the SS at (SS no. 298217) and reached the end of January 1941 to the rank of SS brigade leader . From 1933 to 1943 Oeynhausen was the district president of the Prussian administrative district of Minden in the province of Westphalia . In 1943 he resigned from the civil service as there were increasing differences with the NSDAP Gauleiter Alfred Meyer , which were also triggered by Oeynhausen's attitude to church issues. Meyer ensured an honorable farewell to Oeynhausen. He urged the presence of the Reich Interior Minister or at least his State Secretary at the official ceremony and made sure that Oeynhausen was proposed to be awarded the Golden Party Badge and the honorary citizenship of Bad Oeynhausen .

In 1943 he became the club leader of the Lippspringe Heilstätten (Auguste-Viktoria and the Cecilienstift). From 1945 to 1947 he was interned in the British internment camp Staumühle . In the denazification process in 1949, he was classified in category IV (= fellow traveler).

Oeynhausen was considered a staunch National Socialist with connections to the Berlin party leadership of the NSDAP. He hosted Adolf Hitler in January 1933 in the legendary Lipper "breakthrough election campaign" as a personal guest on his estate in Grevenburg . During his tenure, Adolf von Oeynhausen proposed the Wewelsburg to Heinrich Himmler as the "Reichsfuhrer School of the SS ".

Private

Oeynhausen was an Evangelical Lutheran denomination and married. His daughter Ulrike von Oeynhausen was Adolf Hitler's godchild . He was an honorary knight of the Order of St. John . In 1933 he became an honorary citizen of Büren .

literature

• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Updated 2nd edition. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
• 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. 249 ( Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia. 22, A, 16 = historical work on Westphalian regional research. Economic and social history group. 16)
• Hedwig Schrulle : Administration in Dictatorship and Democracy - The District Governments of Münster and Minden / Detmold from 1930 to 1960 . Schöningh, Paderborn, Munich 2008, ISBN 3-506-76593-0 .
• Hedwig Schrulle: The regional presidents in Minden during the Nazi era. Administrative action in the dictatorial power state. Edited by the Detmold district government, Detmold 2014. Also available online. [1]

Web links

• Short biography on the Westphalian History Internet portal of the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association.
• Literature by and about Adolf von Oeynhausen in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Joachim Lilla: Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographisches Handbuch , Münster 2004, p. 231f.
2. ↑ Hedwig Schrulle: The regional presidents in Minden during the Nazi era. Administrative action in the dictatorial power state. Edited by the Detmold district government. Detmold 2014, p. 26.
3. ↑ Newspaper report: Baron von Oeynhausen in office. Festive reception of the new district president . In: Westphalian Latest News, April 3, 1933. Portal Zeit.NRW , accessed on May 15, 2019 . 
4. ^ Ernst Siemer: The district government in Ostwestfalen 1816-1991 . Ed .: The District President Detmold. 1st edition. Detmold 1991, ISBN 3-926505-04-4 .
5. ↑ ^{a b} Ernst Siemer: The district government in East Westphalia 1816–1991 . Ed .: The District President Detmold. 1st edition. Detmold 1991, ISBN 3-926505-04-4 , pp. 151 .
6. ↑ Hedwig Schrulle: The regional presidents in Minden during the Nazi era. Administrative action in the dictatorial power state. Edited by the Detmold district government. Detmold 2014, p. 26.
7. ↑ Hedwig Schrulle: The regional presidents in Minden during the Nazi era. Administrative action in the dictatorial power state. Edited by the Detmold district government. Detmold 2014, p. 26.
8. ↑ ^{a b} Archives in NRW
9. ↑ Markus Wicke: SS and DRK. The Presidium of the German Red Cross in the National Socialist system of rule. 1937-1945.
10. ↑ Friedhelm Wittenberg: On National Socialism and the Church Struggle in Jöllenbeck: The SA attack on missionary Ewald Schildmann in 1936 (PDF; 1.0 MB)
11. ↑ Internet portal "Westphalian History" (ed.); Kirsten John-Stucke: September 22, 1934 - Heinrich Himmler takes over the Wewelsburg
12. ↑ Margret von Falck: A Childhood in Minden (1934–1949)