Emil Danneberg
Emil Danneberg (born September 2, 1896 in Munich , † after 1927) was a German political activist.
Life
Danneberg, who was a merchant by birth, was a son of the merchant Emil Danneberg and his wife Martha geb. Franke. After the First World War he began to get involved in circles of the radical political right. In the summer of 1923 he joined the so-called shock troop Adolf Hitler in Munich , a personal bodyguard organized under paramilitary conditions for the head of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), with whom he took part in the Hitler putsch on November 8 and 9, 1923 . After the coup was suppressed, Danneberg was arrested.
In April 1924, during the trial of forty members of the shock troop before the Munich People's Court, Danneberg was sentenced to fifteen months of imprisonment with the prospect of early release after serving a few months. He was then taken to the Landsberg Fortress , where he shared his captivity with Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess , Hermann Kriebel , Friedrich Weber and twenty-one other raiding troops.
After his release and the re-establishment of the NSDAP in spring 1925, Danneberg joined the party on September 4, 1925 (again?) (Membership number 17,769). In the same year he took over the post of leader of the state association Bavaria-Süd des Wehrwolfs .
In 1926, Hitler sent Danneberg from Munich to Halle an der Saale to organize the situation in the NSDAP district of Halle-Merseburg there. As head of the NSDAP local group in Halle - which at that time comprised practically the entire, still very small, Gau - he was instrumental in removing Gau leader Walter Ernst , who had been in office since 1925, and installing Paul Hinkler as his successor. However, within a short time there were violent conflicts between the two "strong" men of the NSDAP in Halle-Merseburg, i. H. Hinkler and Danneberg. The disagreements between the Gauleiter and the local group leader finally went so far that Danneberg wanted to prosecute Hinkler. Since it was forbidden for members of the NSDAP according to the statutes of the party to bring proceedings against other party members before ordinary courts, Dannenberg decided in July 1926 - in order to be able to prosecute Hinkler anyway - to resign from the party. The proceedings initiated by Danneberg against Hinkler ultimately failed because he did not have the financial means to complete it.
Together with some supporters, Danneberg founded the National Socialist Comradeship Association in July 1926, which, however, only gained minor importance and was eventually lost. Due to his differences with Hinkler as well as the failure of the Comradeship Association, Danneberg, who was considered “stubborn”, withdrew from politics around 1927/1928 out of personal hurt and annoyance.
Hitler had given Danneberg a copy of Mein Kampf and dedicated it “in memory of our common imprisonment”. In 2006 it was auctioned for £ 22,000 .
literature
- Bärbel Dusik (editor): Hitler. Speeches, writings, orders. Volume 2, 1992, p. 35.
- Mathias Rösch: The Munich NSDAP 1925-1933: an investigation into the internal structure of the NSDAP in the Weimar Republic. Oldenbourg, Munich 2002, also dissertation Munich 1998, ISBN 3-486-56670-9 .
annotation
- ↑ According to the statutes of the NSDAP of 1925, such procedures should only be resolved within the party by the NSDAP's own investigation and arbitration committees ; the refusal of a party member to settle disputes with other party members in this way, by taking the route to civil proceedings in a regular court, usually resulted in expulsion from the party.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Danneberg, Emil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German National Socialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 2, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1927 |