Erich Drescher (politician)

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Erich Drescher

Erich Drescher (born September 26, 1894 in Laar (Grafschaft Bentheim) , † December 13, 1956 in Leer ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

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After attending elementary school in Bienenburg am Harz, middle school and upper secondary school in Hameln , the son of a customs officer passed his school- leaving examination in February 1913. From April 1913 to March 1914 he was a member of the Fusilier Regiment 73, from which he resigned as an officer candidate. On April 1, 1914, he joined the customs administration. From 1914 Drescher took part in the First World War, in which he was wounded twice, including once, on December 27, 1914, seriously. This severe brain injury as a result of an unsuccessful exercise on hand grenades resulted in a long hospital stay with rehabilitation treatment. On September 1, 1916, he returned to the customs administration after he had left the army unfit for military service. Until he was promoted to customs inspector, Drescher was appointed district customs commissioner in Leer in 1929.

In August 1929 he began to work in the NSDAP and became a member of the party in the local Weener group on October 1, 1930. He was one of the founders of the local NSDAP group in Leer. In December 1930 he was appointed district leader of the party. In July 1932 he was appointed district leader and in July 1933 he was promoted to district inspector. In 1933 he was briefly a member of the provincial parliament of the province of Hanover .

After the previous mayor Erich vom Bruch was dismissed by the National Socialists, Drescher served as State Commissioner from March 1933 to September 1934, and then as Mayor of Leer until liberation from National Socialism in spring 1945. One of his first official acts was to bring the administration into line. In this regard, he was complicit in the suicide of his predecessor from the break. As mayor, among other things, he was responsible for organizing the Reichskristallnacht in Leer. Afterwards, in cooperation with the local SA , he monitored the evacuation of men from the Jewish community in Leer to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp .

From March 1936 until the end of Nazi rule in spring 1945, Drescher was a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for constituency 14 (Weser-Ems) . He was also a member of the district committee of the Leer district. He was also the editor of the Ostfriesische Tageszeitung , which he used as a mouthpiece for his Nazi slogans to persevere in the final phase of the Second World War .

After the end of the war he was interned by the Allies. Dismissed due to illness, Drescher initially earned his living with agricultural activities and from 1951 as a night watchman in a company. Because of his involvement in the November pogroms, he was sentenced to a prison sentence by the Aurich jury court, which, however, as a result of medical reports (“limited responsibility”) was fixed at 21 months in prison . As a result of the internment, the sentence was considered to have been settled. He applied unsuccessfully for a re-employment with the city administration. Finally, from 1956, he worked again as a night watchman and died of heart failure on the way to work.

After Drescher's death, a persistent dispute arose in the municipality of Leer over the question of whether a picture of Drescher's should remain in the gallery of the mayor of the city in the old town hall. This dispute was only settled in December 2000, when the gallery was renamed "Honor Gallery of Officials" and Drescher's picture was removed.

literature

  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
  • Günther Robra: Erich Emil August Drescher . In: Biographical Lexicon for East Frisia . Second volume. Published on behalf of the East Frisian Landscape by Martin Tielke, Ostfries. Landschaftliche Verlags- und Vertriebsgesellschaft, Aurich 1997, ISBN 3-932206-00-2 , pp. 80–82.
  • Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 90.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Günther Robra: Erich Emil August Drescher . In: Biographical Lexicon for East Frisia . Second volume, Aurich 1997, pp. 80-82
  2. ↑ Michael Rademacher: Die Kreisleiter der NSDAP in Gau Weser-Ems , 2005, p. 298.
  3. ↑ Herbert Obenaus: Historical manual of the Jewish communities in Lower Saxony and Bremen , 2005, p. 956.
personal data
SURNAME Drescher, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Laar (County of Bentheim)
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1956
Place of death Empty