Eberhard Ponndorf

Eberhard Ponndorf

Eberhard Ponndorf (born August 5, 1897 in Weimar ; † February 15, 1980 in Hamburg ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

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Ponndorf was the son of the medical council Dr. W. Ponndorf born. In his youth he attended the Wilhelm-Ernst-Gymnasium in Weimar, which he left with the school-leaving certificate. At the age of seventeen he went to the First World War as a flag junior , in which he was promoted to officer . After the war he joined the Freikorps Märcker , with which he put down communist uprisings in Halle , Leipzig and Braunschweig as well as in Upper Silesia.

According to his own statements, Ponndorf refused to join the Reichswehr . Instead, he worked briefly as a volunteer in a factory in Weimar in order to actively participate in the Kapp Putsch in March 1920 . The failure of the coup caused him to leave his home. Ponndorf trained as a businessman in Hamburg and then worked for several years at home and abroad. In 1926 he returned to Germany, where he took over the general agency of an English chemical company for Germany.

At the beginning of 1931 Ponndorf joined the NSDAP and the SA . In autumn 1931 he was commissioned by the leader of the Thuringian SA Zunkel with the formation of the Motor-SA in Thuringia. Until October 1936 he was entrusted with the management of the NSKK Motor Brigade Thuringia, in which the Motor SA was merged with the former NSKK on Hitler's orders. He then became the leader of the NSKK motor group Ostland, which extends over the East Prussian Gau and Danzig. From the end of 1938 Ponndorf was no longer a member of the NSKK.

From March 29, 1936 until the end of the Nazi regime in spring 1945, Ponndorf was also a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for constituency 1 (East Prussia) .

literature

• Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).

Web links

• Eberhard Ponndorf in the database of members of the Reichstag