Emil Danzeisen
Emil Traugott Danzeisen (born October 6, 1897 in Durmersheim , † unknown, but after 1937) was a German paramilitary activist. He was best known as the organizer of an unsuccessful assassination attempt on SA chief Ernst Röhm in 1932.
Live and act
After attending school, Danzeisen took part in the First World War from 1915 . During the war he met Walter Buch , who was in the same regiment and who was to be of decisive importance for his later career. After his return from the war he founded a bandage factory in Munich-Laim.
Since 1922 Danzeisen was involved in the NSDAP, which he first joined in 1923, and in their task force of the Sturmabteilung (SA). When the NSDAP and the SA were banned after the failure of the Hitler putsch in November 1923, Danzeisen took over the leadership of the high command for the illegally existing SA. As adjutant to Buch and Wilhelm Freiherr von Bieberstein , he played a key role in the reorganization of the SA in 1924. After the SA and NSDAP were re-admitted in the spring of 1925, Bieberstein and Danzeisen handed over the remains of their illegal Rumpf-SA to Hitler, who had been released from prison, in order to subsequently take a backseat politically.
On November 1, 1929, Danzeisen rejoined the NSDAP (membership number 160.979) and the SA. He became leader of the NSDAP local group Laim and the SA-Sturm 4 resident there before he left the party on August 25, 1931. However, he remained active in the intelligence service for the party, probably in the security service (SD), where after 1933 he was given the position of SD officer for the SD upper section south. Andreas Dornheim advocates the thesis that "Danzeisen's exit from the party [...] was probably faked [was] to facilitate his intelligence work for the SD."
At the beginning of 1932 Danzeisen was commissioned by Walther Buch, now chairman of the Supreme Party Court of the NSDAP (OPG), to carry out an assassination attempt on the leading employees of SA chief Ernst Röhm - Karl Leon Du Moulin-Eckart , Georg Bell , Hans Erwin Spreti-Weilbach and Julius Uhl - and possibly also to organize on Röhm himself. The background to this project was the fears of Buch and other party leaders that the numerous scandals surrounding Ernst Röhm at that time, especially the homosexual disposition that has now officially become known, would seriously damage the reputation of the party and thus its chances of success with the party this time imminent presidential elections could be detrimental. Danzeisen chose the unemployed architect Karl Horn (1865–1935) as the assassin. Horn finally shied away from the planned attacks and confided in Röhm's employees.
In a way that has not yet been finally clarified - but probably through Röhm's colleague Hans Schweighart , who is believed to have been spying on the Reich leadership of the NSDAP as a police spy - the authorities learned of the intrigues against the Röhm clique, with the result that Danzeisen in was arrested in the first half of April 1932. Shortly afterwards, the social-democratic daily Munich Post , which had learned of the matter, brought the case to the public in articles about a “ Cheka in the Brown House ”, in which, among other things, the existence of a “cell G” in the NSDAP dealing with internal party murder orders - Reich administration was alleged.
In the summer of 1932, court hearings against Danzeisen began before the 2nd lay judge at the Munich District Court , which led to his sentencing to six months in prison on July 5, 1932, and in October 1932 to a six-month prison sentence for attempted murder of Röhm, Du Moulin Eckart, Bell and Uhl ended.
Danzeisen's imprisonment was short-lived: he was released in early 1933. On March 30, 1933, his 1931 elimination as a member of the NSDAP was withdrawn "according to an order of the Fuehrer", that is, he was accepted back into the party.
In the following years Danzeisen worked in the security service of the SS as a representative for the SD upper section south. According to Merker, Danzeisen achieved the rank of SS Oberführer in the SS.
Dornheim argues that Danzeisen was the head of a private terrorist group in the early 1930s that Buch maintained in his capacity as chairman of the NSDAP's Supreme US Chamber in order to obtain an effective tool for disciplining the party. As evidence for this, he refers to a Gestapo investigation from 1937 on "a terrorist group Rödl-Danzeisen", which was composed mainly of members of the SA storm Laim.
literature
- Andreas Dornheim: Röhm's man for abroad , 1998.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Danzeisen, Emil |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Danzeisen, Emil Traugott (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German paramilitary activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 6, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Durmersheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1937 |