Andreas Dornieden

Andreas Dornieden (born April 24, 1887 in Westerode ; † March 4, 1976 in Wanne-Eickel ) was a German politician of the NSDAP .

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After attending school in Westerode, Dornieden learned the building trade in Braunschweig , Westphalia and the Rhineland . After training at the building trade school and at the technical center, he worked as a technical clerk in the building trade until the end of 1914. From 1915 to 1918 Dornieden took part in the First World War, in which he belonged to a news force. After returning from the war, in which he was wounded and awarded the Iron Cross II. Class , Dornieden worked as an employee and designer for a building company in the brick industry in Duderstadt .

In the years 1924 to 1926 Dornieden belonged to the Stahlhelm-Kampfbund . In 1926 he switched to the NSDAP. For this he held the post of political director in Duderstadt from 1926 to 1931 . He then took on the duties of district leader. In this function he was involved in the dismissal of democratically elected mayors in the Duderstadt district in 1933. He also sat in the city council of Duderstadt from 1929 to 1933.

In 1933, Dornieden and his NSDAP parliamentary group also ousted the center mayor of Duderstadt from the office that he himself took over and was to hold until 1945. In addition, he was a member of the district committee of the Duderstadt district . As mayor, Dornieden pushed in particular the expansion of the infrastructure of Duderstadt and the settlement of industrial companies, especially the Polte-Werke , a company in the armaments industry. In February 1936, Dornieden moved into the Reichstag elected in November 1933 as a replacement for the resigned Reichstag member Heinrich Schmidt . Dornieden represented constituency 16 (South Hanover-Braunschweig) in parliament until the election a few weeks later. Although he ran for a new candidate in the Reichstag election on March 29, 1936, he received no mandate.

As mayor and thus also chief of police in the city, Dornieden ensured the harassment of Jewish business people and an “orderly”, successful course of the pogrom on 9/10. November 1938. He forbade the fire brigade to extinguish the burning synagogue. As mayor or district party leader, during the Second World War he was involved in the organization of forced labor for foreign people who had been criminally abducted to Duderstadt, and in doing so he revealed a racist attitude. As mayor, he was also involved in the forced deportation of the last Jewish residents from the city on March 26, 1943. They were transported to the Warsaw Ghetto. After 1945, with untrue statements and false testimonies, he managed to get Duderstädter dignitaries in the arbitration chamber and denazification proceedings as “exonerated” to be acquitted of all responsibility. In the obituary for Dornieden by the then mayor of Duderstadt, Willi Thiele, and the city director Karl Krukenberg, it was said in 1976: “The deceased was mayor of the city of Duderstadt from 1933 to 1945. During this time he has dedicated all of his work to the good of our city. Thank you very much for that. We will honor his remembrance."

literature

• 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

• Andreas Dornieden in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Götz Hütt: The outside command of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Duderstadt , 2005, p. 112.