Carl Vincent Krogmann

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Carl Vincent Krogmann (born March 3, 1889 in Hamburg ; † March 14, 1978 ibid) was a shipowner , banker and industrialist from Hamburg and during the time of National Socialism from March 8, 1933 first mayor and from May 19, 1933 “governing mayor “Of the city of Hamburg. Despite this title, he had no real power in Hamburg. It was owned by the Nazi Gauleiter and Reich Governor Karl Kaufmann , who deposed Krogmann on July 30, 1936 as head of the state government in order to be the leader of the state government himself. Krogmann remained the head of the municipal administration.

Life

Krogmann was the son of the shipowner Richard Carl Krogmann and until 1933 co-owner of the prestigious Hamburg trading company Wachsmuth und Krogmann , which was mainly active as a bank and shipping company. In 1930 he was elected to the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce . He was a board member of the Hamburg National Club .

Before the National Socialists came to power , Krogmann, the son of a long-established Hamburg merchant family, did not appear politically. Although he was already involved in the industrialists' submission, initially he was not a member of the NSDAP . When the Hamburg Senate resigned after taking power, Reichsstatthalter and Gauleiter Karl Kaufmann proposed Krogmann as the new First Mayor . He promised himself from Krogmann a closer bond between Hamburg and the party and the ideology of the National Socialists.

On March 8, 1933, Krogmann was elected a member of the Hamburg Senate and First Mayor of the Senate. He joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 . He was a member of the delegation of the London Conference (1933) , a world economic conference . On May 18, 1933 he was appointed governing mayor by Reichsstatthalter Kaufmann , and as of July 30, 1936, as a result of political harmonization, he was only head of the municipal administration . Kaufmann took over the leadership of the state government himself. Krogmann held the post of head of the municipal administration until the city was handed over to the British Army on May 3, 1945.

After Kaufmann's arrest on May 4th, the British reunited state and local government in the hands of the mayor. From May 5th to 9th daily Senate deliberations took place under his leadership. Thus, the military government left him in office until his arrest by British city commander Harry William Hugh Armytage on May 11th.

In 1932 Krogmann was a member of the Keppler Circle , which became the Friends of the Reichsführer SS after 1933 . To embody and indirectly convey National Socialist ideology, he carried out a Low German Garden Show on the grounds of the Old Zoological Garden in 1934 and opened the Planten un Blomen park in the same location in 1935 , in which, according to the National Socialists, only "German plants" should grow.

Pillow stone for CV Krogmann , Ohlsdorf cemetery

Krogmann also held the office of Gauarbeitsführer , was a member of the Presidential Council of the Reich Chamber of Literature , was a member of the Academy for German Law and the National Leader of the German Red Cross .

After the end of the war, Krogmann was interned in Bielefeld until April 1948 . In August 1948 he was sentenced by the 13th Bielefelder Spruchkammer for membership in a criminal organization to a fine of 10,000 marks, which, however, was considered to have served with his pre-trial detention. After his release from the internment camp, Krogmann worked in the construction industry. Later he owned a timber wholesaler. Politically, he no longer appeared in public. In the 1970s, he tried to keep in touch with old comrades through circular letters in small numbers.

Krogmann died in Hamburg in March 1978, he was buried in the area of ​​the family grave at the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg, grid square W 21 (east of Chapel 2, north of the Nebenallee).

Works

  • Carl Vincent Krogmann: Beloved Hamburg . Christians-Verlag, 1955.
  • Carl Vincent Krogmann: Bellevue . Christians-Verlag, 1960 (2nd edition 1963).
  • Carl Vincent Krogmann: It was about Germany's future . Druffel-Verlag , Leoni am Starnberger See 1982, ISBN 3-8061-0741-6 .

literature

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ List of Hamburg mayors (PDF; 25 kB). In: Website of the City of Hamburg.
  2. ^ Heinrich Erdmann (Red.): Hamburg after the end of the Third Reich: political rebuilding 1945/46 to 1949. Six articles . Publications of the state center for political education, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-929728-50-8 , p. 15.
  3. ^ Heinrich Erdmann (Red.): Hamburg after the end of the Third Reich: political rebuilding 1945/46 to 1949. Six articles . Publications of the state center for political education, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-929728-50-8 , pp. 16 and 26.
  4. ^ Manfred Asendorf: 1945. Hamburg defeated and liberated . Publications of the state center for political education, Hamburg 1995, p. 26 (protocol text, in which mayor Krogmann is named).
  5. ^ Heinrich Erdmann (Red.): Hamburg in the Third Reich. Seven posts . Publications of the state center for political education, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-929728-42-7 , p. 33.
  6. ↑ Only German plants were allowed to bloom in Planten un Blomen. In: Welt am Sonntag . June 26, 2005 (about the opening of Planten un Blomen).
  7. ↑ Hamburger Volkszeitung , August 21, 1948.
  8. ^ Circular letters from Carl Vincent Krogmann, 1973.
  9. ↑ See Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich . Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 342
  10. ↑ Celebrity Graves
personal data
SURNAME Krogmann, Carl Vincent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, First Mayor of Hamburg (1933–1945)
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1978
Place of death Hamburg