Bruno Wenzel

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Bruno Wenzel (* 1879 in Osnabrück ; † after 1924) was a German businessman and journalist. In 1921 he founded the first local branch of the NSDAP outside of Bavaria in Hanover .

Life

Before the First World War , Wenzel lived as a merchant in Spain . In 1919/20 he returned to Germany, where he settled in Hanover . In the following years he earned his living as a journalist and representative or as a lawyer. He had already sent a petition to the National Assembly from Spain , in which he demanded the right to vote for Germans abroad for a nationally understood economic parliament. In the spring of 1921, Wenzel became a member of the Hanoverian branch of the German-Völkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund . In May 1921 he joined the NSDAP.

On July 2, 1921, together with the former social democratic carpenter and ex-police officer Gustav Seifert in Hanover, he founded the first NSDAP local group in northern Germany , which marked the beginning of the party's expansion into northern Germany. He also acted as a promotional speaker for the NSDAP from 1921 to 1923. After the failure of the Hitler putsch on November 9, 1923, he returned to Spain in mid-January 1924 and handed over the management to Ludolf Haase .

Wenzel arranged for a translation of Henry Ford's book The International Jew into Spanish , which was published by Theodor Fritsch by Hammer-Verlag .

Fonts

  • On the early history of the NSDAP in Lower Saxony , 1934 (unpublished manuscript in: BAK, NS 26/141)
  • Translation by Henry Ford: El Judío internacional. A problem of the mundo . Hammer-Verlag, Leipzig 1924.
    • 2nd, revised edition, newly adapted and presented by L. Brunet. Hammer-Verlag, Leipzig 1930.

literature

  • Hanna Behrend: The relations between the NSDAP headquarters and the Gauverband Süd-Hannover-Braunschweig 1921-1933. A contribution to the leadership structure of the National Socialist Party . Lang, Frankfurt a. Main 1981.
  • Ernst Deuerlein: The Hitler Putsch , 1962, p. 219.
  • Klaus Mlynek / Waldemar R. Röhrbein: History of the City of Hanover , 1994.
  • Jeffrey Noakes: The Nazi Party in Lower Saxony, 1921-1933 . Oxford UP, Oxford 1971.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Franz-Willing: Crisis year of the Hitler movement. 1923 , Volume 2, Schütz , Preußisch Oldendorf, p. 204.
  2. ^ A b David Jablonsky: The Nazi Party in Dissolution: Hitler and the Verbotzeit, 1923-1925. Routledge, London 1989, ISBN 0-7146-3322-4 , p. 58.
  3. ↑ Jeffrey Noakes: The Nazi party in Lower Saxony, 1921-1933 . Oxford 1971, p. 14.
  4. ↑ Uwe Lohalm: Völkischer Radikalismus. The history of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutz-Bund, 1919–1923. Leibniz-Verlag, Hamburg 1970, p. 322.
  5. ↑ See e.g. B. Paul Madden, Detlef Mühlberger: The Nazi Party. The Anatomy of a People's Party, 1919-1933. Lang, Bern 2007, p. 198.
personal data
SURNAME Wenceslaus, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH after 1924