August Vordemfelde

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August Vordemfelde

August Vordemfelde (born October 26, 1880 in Westerhausen , † January 1, 1972 in Aschaffenburg ) was a clothing manufacturer and German politician (DNVP).

Live and act

August Vordemfelde was born in 1880 as the middle of eight children of the farmer Johann Heinrich Vordemfelde and his wife Anna Maria Elisabeth Schnieder, both from Westerhausen. He attended elementary school in Oldendorf in the Melle district . From 1895 to 1899 he completed a commercial apprenticeship in Bevensen in the Uelzen district . He then earned his living as a commercial clerk in Cologne and Hamburg . In 1912 he founded a men's clothing factory in Aschaffenburg . From November 1915 to November 1918 he took part in the First World War. In 1920 he married. With his wife Hildegard he had three sons, Friedrich Karl (born November 8, 1920 ), August Heinrich (born December 26, 1922 ) and Hermann Karl (born July 4, 1926 ) as well as a daughter Hannemarie (born December 26, 1922 ). During the Second World War he took part as a lieutenant (front and training troops) in France (July – August 1943), Russia and Estonia (February 10 - July 10, 1944). He was also a member of the district economic adviser. Denazification classification in Group IV (Follower, June 12, 1947).

In the early 1920s Vordemfelde joined the German National People's Party (DNVP), which is considered a pioneer of National Socialism because of its extremely nationalist views and demands as well as its cooperation with the NSDAP . In the Reichstag elections of December 1924 he was elected as a candidate for the DNVP for constituency 26 (Franconia) in the Reichstag , to which he belonged until the elections of May 1928. Politically, he was particularly noticeable as a promoter of the Christian social movement. In the 1920s, for example, he was a member of the federal administration of the Bavarian Protestant Association of Young Men, after having been involved in the Christian young men movement since 1902. On May 1, 1933 , he joined the NSDAP .

After 1945 Vordemfelde was a member of the CSU in Aschaffenburg. In 1959 he was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit.

literature

  • Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 . , P. 545.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Denazification file August Vordemfelde, Spruchkammer Lohr am Main, June 12, 1947
  2. ^ Heidrun Holzbach: The "System Hugenberg" , 1981, p. 221.
  3. ^ Mainfränkisches Jahrbuch für Geschichte und Kunst. Volume 25, 1973, p. 249.
personal data
SURNAME Vordemfelde, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DNVP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Westerhausen
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1972
Place of death Aschaffenburg