August Kramer (politician)

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August Kramer (1933)

August Hermann Kramer (born October 19, 1900 in Lahr , Baden, † July 22, 1979 in Bad Rippoldsau-Schapbach ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

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After the early death of his parents, the son of a lithographer grew up with his grandparents and then in an orphanage . After attending the elementary school in Lahr from 1907 to 1915 and the pre-seminar in Lahr from 1915 to 1918, Kramer was trained at the teachers' college in Heidelberg from 1918 to 1921 . In the final phase of the First World War , Kramer was drafted into military service in June 1918; in December of that year he retired from the army. After the candidate examination he worked from Easter 1921 to January 1922 as an assistant in the Baden Ministry of Culture and Education. Then he was a sub-teacher in Linkenheim and Liedolsheim .

Kramer joined the NSDAP in 1922 after meeting National Socialists as a member of a hiking club on a visit to Munich. After his transfer to Liedolsheim, Kramer, along with Robert Roth and Albert Roth, was one of the leading National Socialists in the village, which developed into an early stronghold of the NSDAP and its replacement organizations. In July 1923, Kramer belonged to a group of Liedolsheimers who took part in a gymnastics festival in Munich. This led to a personal, allegedly one-hour encounter with Hitler . Hitler declined requests for support and a visit to Liedolsheim: he could not do without a single man in Bavaria at the moment. In the same month, Kramer organized a rally in Liedolsheim for the NSDAP, which had been banned in Baden since July 1922. Around 300 National Socialists and ethnic groups from North and Central Baden took part in the event, which was declared a " Schlageter Memorial Service " . After the rally, Kramer was temporarily arrested for an offense against the Republic Protection Act. In August 1923 he said he was dismissed from school because of his membership in the NSDAP. According to other data Kramer money is embezzled have. According to the social democratic journalist Helmuth Klotz , Kramer was sentenced to a month's imprisonment in November 1924 by the Karlsruhe district court for embezzlement.

After his discharge from civil service, Kramer worked full-time for the NSDAP, which was re-approved in 1925. In 1926 he was the local group leader in Heidelberg; the following year he became the party's district leader there. On May 1, 1927, Kramer was appointed regional manager of the Baden district of the NSDAP. Kramer is counted to a "Gauclique" around Gauleiter Robert Wagner , who was equally loyal to Wagner and competent in building the party organization. Kramer, who was one of the party's most important speakers in Baden before 1933, was appointed Gau propaganda leader of the NSDAP district in Baden on December 1, 1930. In November 1930 Kramer took over a public office as a city councilor in Karlsruhe for the first time , which he held until April 1933.

After the National Socialists came to power on July 1, 1933, Kramer was appointed head of the personnel office of the Baden Gau of the NSDAP and the Gauamtswalterschule. On August 11, 1934, he was appointed district inspector. From February 1935 to 1945, Kramer was responsible for all organizational and administrative issues relating to the party apparatus in Baden as head of the district organization. In the SA he was promoted to Standartenführer in May 1937 .

From April 1933 until the dissolution of this body in October 1933, Kramer was a member of the Baden state parliament . He then sat from November 1933 until the end of Nazi rule in spring 1945 as a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for constituency 32 (Baden) .

literature

  • 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 , p. 334 .
  • Hubert Roser: Kramer, August Hermann. In: Bernd Ottnad, Fred Ludwig Sepaintner (Hrsg.): Baden-Württembergische Biographien. Volume 3, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-17-017332-4 , pp. 207-208.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John Peter Horst Grill: The Nazi movement in Baden, 1920-1945. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 1983, ISBN 0-8078-1472-5 , p. 70.
  2. ^ Grill, Nazi movement , p. 75 f.
  3. ↑ Roser, Kramer , p. 207.
  4. ^ Grill, Nazi movement , p. 551 (footnote 28); Roser, Kramer , p. 207.
  5. ↑ Helmuth Klotz: Honor ranking for the Third Reich. AP correspondence, Berlin 1931, p. 25 ( online , PDF, 1.6 MB)
  6. ↑ This assessment in Grill, Nazi movement , p. 113 f.
  7. ↑ Ernst Otto Bräunche: The development of the Nazi Party in Baden until 1932/33. In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine . Volume 125 (NF 86th Volume) 1977, pp. 331-375, here p. 342.
personal data
SURNAME Kramer, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kramer, August Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Lahr
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1979
Place of death Bad Rippoldsau-Schapbach