Diedrich Dannemann

Diedrich Dannemann

Diedrich Heinrich Karl Dannemann (born May 24, 1874 in Tungeln ; † December 27, 1933 in Oldenburg ) was a German politician who joined various, increasingly radical parties in the Weimar Republic and, most recently, the NSDAP . He was a member of the Oldenburg Landtag and the German Reichstag .

Live and act

Dannemann was the son of the househusband Johann Hermann Dannemann (1849–1887) and his second wife Johanna geb. Willers (1847-1899). After attending elementary school in Tungeln, Dannemann was trained in agriculture. From 1893 to 1896 he was a member of the Oldenburg Dragoon Regiment No. 19 . He later took over his parents' farm. In 1906 he became the head of the community of Wardenburg . He held the office until 1933 and was extremely successful in local politics with the expansion of the road network and settlement projects. He was also a member of the Official Association of the Office of Oldenburg. From 1911 he sat for the National Liberal Party (NLP) in the state parliament of Oldenburg.

During the First World War , Dannemann fought on the Western Front from 1914 to 1916 and in Macedonia from 1917 to 1918 .

After that, from 1919 on, Dannemann was on the boards of the Oldenburg Landbund and the German People's Party (DVP) and as their member of the DVP (from 1919 to 1925) and the regional bloc (from 1925 to 1931) again a member of the Oldenburg Landtag. From June 1920 to May 1924 he was also a member of the first Reichstag of the Weimar Republic, in which he represented constituency 16 (Weser-Ems) until May 1924 . Then he left Berlin and returned to Oldenburg. As the mayor of Wardenburg, he was able to avoid the worst effects of inflation in the year of devaluation in 1923 through the rye levy proposed by the community. He also succeeded in at least alleviating the pressing problem of unemployment in the community in the twenties by procuring public contracts. His numerous honorary positions included chairing the Oldenburg Landowners Association and the Special Committee for Economic Policy of the Chamber of Agriculture , as well as his membership in the settlement committee and the arbitration chamber assigned to it in arbitration matters.

Despite his extensive political commitment, Dannemann was internally distant from the political system of the Weimar Republic and became increasingly radicalized in the later years of the Weimar period. As early as 1919 he spoke out in favor of the formation of a non-political specialist ministry, convinced that under the parliamentary, “partisan” government of Tantzen , too much was taking the wrong path, which tended towards socialism . In addition, he was a staunch opponent of the Reichsfinanzausgleich, which in his view would increase the tax burdens for the rural communities to an unbearable level and which, in his opinion, should under no circumstances be passed. Dannemann was isolated here even in his own parliamentary group.

Out of tactical opportunism or real conviction, Dannemann subsequently joined the Stahlhelm and in 1931 the German National People's Party (DNVP), for which he again briefly sat in the state parliament at the beginning of 1933. On the battlefront black, white and red , for which he said - appointed - belonged to the 8th Oldenburg parliament, Dannemann then stepped over to the NSDAP.

When Dannemann changed parties, his fear of a renewed threat of inflation, influenced by the global economic crisis , probably played an important role, and he speculated not only with his own assets but also with community money to prevent it. In doing so, he suffered enormous losses that could not be concealed in the long run. Therefore taken into custody, Dannemann evaded responsibility by suicide.

Today, among other things, Diedrich-Dannemann-Strasse in the Wardenburg community, which Dannemann made an honorary citizen for his services in 1932 , commemorates Dannemann's life and political activities.

family

Dannemann was married to Anna Ida born on August 26, 1898. Lehmkuhl (1878-1969). The couple had three daughters and two sons, of whom the son Robert belonged to the German Bundestag for the FDP from 1949 to 1955 and was President of the Lower Saxony administrative district of Oldenburg .

Web links

• Diedrich Dannemann in the database of members of the Reichstag

literature

• Diedrich Hinrich Karl Dannemann. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 139-141 ( online ).