Alfred Strassweg

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Alfred Strassweg

Alfred Straßweg (born May 21, 1902 in Wermelskirchen ; † November 24, 1997 there ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

Life

1902 to 1945

From 1908 to 1916, Straßweg attended elementary school in his home town. After the First World War , he began training as a painter and house painter there , which he completed in 1923 when he passed the journeyman's examination. From July 20, 1926, he ran a self-employed painter and house painter. However, he gave this up after the National Socialists came to power on May 23, 1933 in order to work full-time as a functionary for the NSDAP. Nevertheless, on July 17, 1937, he passed the master craftsman's examination in Düsseldorf with the grade Good . As a non-commissioned officer in a propaganda company , Straßweg was a member of the German Wehrmacht from August 1940 to November 1941 . With the attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, he was transferred to the Eastern Front . From there he returned in November of the same year.

1945 to 1997

At the end of the war , Straßweg was interned in April 1945. He spent his imprisonment, which lasted until the announcement of the verdict of the 9th  Chamber of Arbitration in Bielefeld on June 19, 1948, in the Eselheide internment camp . The jury sentenced him to one year and nine months in prison , which was deemed to have been served due to the internment period . At the time of his release he was working as a laborer in a civil engineering company . On December 13, 1949, the denazification committee for the administrative district of Düsseldorf placed Straßweg in category III (less polluted). A few days earlier, on December 4, 1949, the Wuppertal public prosecutor's office had initiated investigations against him for crimes against humanity (participation in the pogrom against Jews in November 1938 in Wuppertal), but these were closed on May 12, 1950. In the following years he lived as a master painter in Wermelskirchen.

Political activity

At the age of 23, Straßweg joined the NSDAP on November 1, 1925 (membership number 21696). He took on his first function in 1926/1927 as head of the Wermelskirchen local group. In 1928 he was then listed as a district commissioner in the "Bergisches Land". What was more of a formal character. In November of the following year 1929, however, he won mandates as a city ​​councilor in the Wermelskirchen council and in the district council of the Rhein-Wupper district . Later he also became a member of the district committee . For constituency 22, Straßweg entered the Prussian state parliament from May 1932 to 1933 and the Reichstag from November 1933 until the end of the war .

With the division of the Gaue into districts, Straßweg took over from September 15, 1932 to July 25, 1937, the position of district leader in the "Bergisch-Land district". At the same time, from September 1934 to June 1936, he held the office of Gau inspector for the right-bank area of ​​the Gaus Düsseldorf, with the exception of the city of Düsseldorf itself. In April 1935, he was also the NSDAP agent for the districts of Rhein-Wupper, Solingen and Remscheid. The district management in Solingen was given to Straßweg from January 1, 1936 to May 21, 1937 and that of the Wuppertal district from May 21, 1937. He held this position until the end of the war. His Wuppertal official residence was in the Villa Frowein .

Straßweg's autobiography was published in a commented elaboration in 2017: “I would choose the NSDAP again!” - The critically accompanied autobiographical notes of the Wuppertal NSDAP district leader Alfred Straßweg. Around 1980, Straßweg said that he would join the NSDAP again and again.

Awards

literature

  • Klaus Goebel (ed.): Wuppertal in the time of National Socialism. Hammer, Wuppertal 1984, ISBN 3-87294-251-4 (on Straßweg's pseudo-religious fascism and racism: pp. 12-20).
  • Markus Kiel: In the service of the local economy - biography of the National Socialist and former President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Wuppertal-Remscheid Dr. Friedrich Ludwig Wax. Momberger, Wuppertal 2015, ISBN 978-3-940439-71-0 , pp. 145 ff.,
  • Markus Kiel: "I would choose the NSDAP again!" - The critically accompanied autobiographical notes of the Wuppertal NSDAP district leader Alfred Straßweg. agenda, Münster 2017, ISBN 978-3-89688-566-1
  • Peter Klefisch: The district leaders of the NSDAP in the districts of Cologne-Aachen, Düsseldorf and Essen. (= Publications of the State Archives of North Rhine-Westphalia, Series C: Sources and Research, Nand 45) Verlag Franz Schmitt, Düsseldorf 2000, ISBN 3-9805419-2-4 , p. 220 f.
  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
  • Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Peter Klefisch: The district leaders of the NSDAP in the districts of Cologne-Aachen, Düsseldorf and Essen. (= Publications of the State Archives of North Rhine-Westphalia, Series C: Sources and Research, Volume 45) Verlag Franz Schmitt, Düsseldorf 2000, ISBN 3-9805419-2-4 , p. 220.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Peter Klefisch: The district leaders of the NSDAP in the districts Cologne-Aachen Düsseldorf and Essen. (= Publications of the State Archives of North Rhine-Westphalia, Series C: Sources and Research, Volume 45) Verlag Franz Schmitt, Düsseldorf 2000, ISBN 3-9805419-2-4 , p. 221.
  3. ^ Peter Klefisch: The district leaders of the NSDAP in the districts of Cologne-Aachen, Düsseldorf and Essen. (= Publications of the State Archives of North Rhine-Westphalia, Series C: Sources and Research, Volume 45) Verlag Franz Schmitt, Düsseldorf 2000, ISBN 3-9805419-2-4 , p. 25.
  4. ↑ Markus Kiel: How guilty was Dr. Wax? Wuppertaler Rundschau from October 16, 2015, accessed on November 4, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Strassweg, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR, MdL
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Wermelskirchen
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1997
Place of death Wermelskirchen