Detlef Schmidt (politician)

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Detlef Schmidt (born December 23, 1882 in Lüchow ; † January 9, 1951 in Hameln ) was a German municipal official. He was Lord Mayor of Neumünster and Hameln.

Life

Schmidt, a son of the then District Court Counselor Louis Schmidt in Lüchow, began to study law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In May 1901 he was reciprocated in the Corps Vandalia Heidelberg . When he was inactive , he moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Georg August University in Göttingen . In 1904 he passed the trainee examination at the Higher Regional Court of Celle and became a court assessor in 1910 . As such, he worked in Rodenberg and with the city administrations in Osnabrück and Flensburg . In 1911 he became a city councilor in Neumünster. During the First World War he took part as a reserve captain of the 2nd Guard Reserve Division . In 1919 he became Lord Mayor of Neumünster . After his term of office in 1931 he was not re-elected, but remained in office for two more years. From 1933 to 1945 he was Lord Mayor of Hameln . In 1941 he volunteered for active military service. From October 1941 to August 1943 he was in command of the 728 district headquarters in Sens (Yonne) . There he was also responsible for the selection and deportation of forced laborers to the concentration and labor camps, for which he was awarded the War Merit Cross in 1943 . He then retired as Major d. R. a. D. off. During his time as Lord Mayor, he arranged for the city to be decorated for Hitler's propaganda trips through Hameln and presented him with the "Vow of Immutable Loyalty" at the Reichserntedankfest in 1934. In 1939 he was actively involved in the elimination of the Jewish community in Hameln. In a hearing before a German denazification committee in 1946, he stated that he had been a member of the NSDAP since 1933 and that he had belonged to the SA as Ober-Sturmführer. The Control Commission for Germany / British Element classified him as an "Ardent Nazi supporter" first in the "M" category and later in "Cat. IV".

Awards

literature

  • The members of Vandalia zu Heidelberg as of September 29, 1935 . Berlin 1936, p. 248.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 68/709.
  2. ↑ Wilfried Altkrüger: Nazi perpetrators - Mayor a. D. Emil Busching. October 29, 2009. Retrieved January 11, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Hameln City Archives, Best. 90.1 No. 23
  4. ↑ The sale of the synagogue site ( Memento from September 14, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  5. ↑ Bernhard Gelderblom: The Jews of Hameln - from their beginnings in the 13th century to their extermination by the Nazi regime. Hameln 2011, ISBN 978-3-940751-39-3 , p. 118.
  6. ↑ Hameln City Archives, Best. 11, Acc. 1989/01 No. 1513
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Detlef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer, Lord Mayor of Neumünster and Hameln
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Lüchow
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1951
Place of death Hamelin