Daniel Hauer

Daniel Hauer

Daniel Hauer (born February 17, 1879 in Bad Dürkheim , † in 1945 or after) was a German politician of the ( NSDAP ).

Live and act

Youth, training and the First World War

Hauer was the son of the innkeeper and fruit trader Johannes Hauer and his wife Charlotte, née Pfaff. After attending elementary school and secondary school in Bad Dürkheim, Hauer worked in his father's business, a fruit and grape wholesaler, until 1899. From 1899 to 1907 he was a member of the 4th Lower Alsatian Infantry Regiment No. 143 and the Imperial Protection Force for German South West Africa . There he participated in the suppression of the Herero uprising .

From 1907 to 1912 Hauer was in the service of the state railway, and then from 1913 to 1914 in industry. From 1914 to 1918 Hauer took part in the First World War with the Fusilier Regiment "von Gersdorff" (Kurhessisches) No. 80 and the Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 80 . After the war he was a member of the Epp Freikorps until 1920 .

Career in the Nazi movement

From 1923 to 1926, Hauer was involved in the German Volkish freedom movement . In 1927 he joined the NSDAP. Around the same time he became a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the party's street combat organization. In this he acted from 1928 to 1929 as a storm leader in Frankfurt am Main . Around 1930 he took over the position of the leader of the SA subgroup Hessen-Darmstadt with the rank of SA-Oberführer.

On the occasion of the state elections of November 1931, Hauer was able to move into the Hessian state parliament as a member of his party , to which he belonged until this body was dissolved in autumn 1933. Hauer caused a public sensation when he justified the 1921 assassination attempt on the former Reich Finance Minister Matthias Erzberger , which ended with the death of the center politician, as a patriotic act in the parliamentary plenary session of February 19, 1932, and the social democratic MP Lily Pringsheim , who protested against this statement, shouted: "Just be quiet, you'll get your turn".

After the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933, Hauer was appointed police director in Darmstadt . At around the same time he reached his highest rank in the SA when he was promoted to SA Brigade Leader on July 1, 1933. In November of the same year he also received a mandate for the National Socialist Reichstag , which he was to belong to until the end of Nazi rule in spring 1945 as a member of constituency 31 (Württemberg).

In 1934, Hauer gave up the post of Darmstadt police director and moved to Stuttgart as the SA site manager . Since 1937 at the latest, Hauer was also a member of the People's Court as an assessor . In this capacity he was involved in numerous death sentences before and during the Second World War , for example against Adolf Rembte and Robert Stamm on June 4, 1937 , against Stefan Lovasz , Alfred Grözinger , Josef Steidle , Artur Göritz and Liselotte Herrmann on June 12, 1937 March 19, 1940 against Hermann Steigleiter and Hugo Steigleiter, on December 15, 1942 against the seamstress Rosa Hofmann , on February 5, 1943 against Hans-Georg Vötter , Adolf Bittner , Arthur Illgen and Werner Schaumann , on March 31, 1943 pending the death sentence against William Otto Bauer , on June 23, 1943 against the pastor Karl Friedrich Stellbrink , on September 8, 1943 against the machine dealer Fritz Gröbe, on January 22, 1944 against the couple Bernhard and Maria Kreulich from Essen-Kray, on June 22, 1944 against Franz Jaindl-Haring , on July 26, 1944 against the casual worker Anton Kowalski, on October 30, 1944 against the structural engineer Albert Ludwig Florowski, on November 6, 1944 against the honor guard Frank-Schultz , on January 8, 1945 against Theodor Neubauer and on January 9, 1945 against Jakob Schultheis and Stanislaus Peplinski .

In addition, Hauer was judgment against Bruno Dubber involved on 13 May 1941 that it to a lifelong imprisonment condemned.

Marriages and families

Daniel Hauer was married four times. His wives were Babette Mootz, Frida (Henriette) Preuße, Elisabethe Weil and finally Anna Kaiser.

literature

• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
• Erich Stockhorst : 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . 2nd Edition. Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 .
• Hans Georg Ruppel, Birgit Groß: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (2nd Chamber) and the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse. (= Darmstädter Archivschriften. Vol. 5). Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-922316-14-X , p. 126.
• Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index. (= Political and Parliamentary History of the State of Hesse. Vol. 14 = Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 169.

Web links

• Daniel Hauer in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Hauer, Daniel. Hessian biography. (As of March 10, 2017). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ruppel / Groß state that it was still registered in the Frankfurt address book in 1943
2. ↑ Eberhart Schön: The emergence of National Socialism in Hesse. 1972, p. 197.
3. ^ Günter Heuzeroth : Persecuted for political reasons: Resistance and persecution of the regional labor movement in documents, life reports and analyzes. Depicted at the events in Weser-Ems, 1933-1945. 1989, p. 449.
4. ↑ Hermann W. Morweiser: From the anti-fascist resistance in Speyer. 1983, p. 106.
5. ↑ Willi Weinert: "I want them to always stay close to you--": Biographies of communist resistance fighters in Austria. With comments on the resistance struggle of the Communist Party of Austria and a list of victims , 2005, p. 97.
6. ^ Walter Kempowski: Das Echolot: a collective diary, January and February 1943. February 1 to 15, 1943. P. 345.
7. ↑ http://www.luebeckermaertyrer.de/de/geschichte/urteile/ Judgment- stellbrink.html
8. ↑ Fritz Bauer: Justice and Nazi Crimes: The criminal judgments issued from October 31, 1968 to March 14, 1969, serial no. No. 694-702. 2004 p. 382.
9. ↑ Hans-Josef Steinberg: Resistance and persecution in Essen 1933-1945 , 1969, p. 175.
10. ↑ Eduard Rabofsky / Gerhard Oberkofler: Hidden roots of the Nazi justice. 1985, p. 40.
11. ^ Monika Gödecke: Justice under National Socialism. About crimes in the name of the German people. Contributions and catalog to the exhibition. 2002, p. 51.
12. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
13. ↑ Hermann W. Morweiser: From the anti-fascist resistance in Speyer. 1983, p. 158.
14. ^ Karl Heinz Jahnke: An unusual life: Bruno Dubber (1910-1944). 1990, p. 115.