Erich Diestelkamp

Erich Diestelkamp

Erich Diestelkamp (born July 7, 1900 in Gütersloh , † April 17, 1983 in Bielefeld ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

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After attending elementary school , Diestelkamp was trained at the Holzwickede preparation institute and at the teachers' college in Gütersloh. From May 1918 he took part in the First World War as a soldier with the 131st Infantry Regiment . After his discharge from the army in February 1919, he continued his training. In 1920 he passed the first teacher examination in Gütersloh. He then worked as a primary school teacher in Buer. In 1934 he was promoted to school principal.

At the end of the 1920s, Diestelkamp joined the NSDAP. In 1932 he took over the duties of a local group leader and in 1934 he was appointed district leader in Krefeld .

From March 1936 until the end of the National Socialist regime in spring 1945, Diestelkamp was a member of the politically insignificant Reichstag of the National Socialists as a member of constituency 22 (Düsseldorf East) . In addition, he sat in the municipal committees in Gelsenkirchen-Buer since 1933.

After the Second World War, Diestelkamp was interned in a camp in the Eselheide near Paderborn . He was sentenced twice, once for crimes against humanity by the jury court in Krefeld to two years and six months imprisonment, the second time as a member of the political leadership corps of the NSDAP by the ruling court in Bielefeld to one year and seven months imprisonment. In 1955, the Krefeld district court set the total sentence at two years and six months.

Until 1957 Diestelkamp worked as a travel agent in Gütersloh , after which he was an insurance agent for a building society.

literature

• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
• 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).
• Paul Kleinewefers : Born in 1905. A report on the current and economic situation. First edition, Stuttgart, 1977. Fourth edition, 1984, ISBN 978-3512004834
• Peter Klefisch: The district leaders of the NSDAP in the districts of Cologne-Aachen, Düsseldorf and Essen . Ed .: North Rhine-Westphalian Main State Archive. Düsseldorf 2000, ISBN 3-9805419-2-4 , p. 105-106 .

Web links

• Erich Diestelkamp in the database of members of the Reichstag