Erich Hartmann (politician)

Erich Hartmann

Erich Hartmann (born July 7, 1896 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , † February 23, 1976 in Achim ) was a German politician of the NSDAP and district administrator in Prussia .

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After attending school from 1913 to 1914, the architect's son prepared himself for colonial service by attending an agricultural college and a commercial training course, and continued his education in the areas of locksmithing, carpentry and agriculture. From 1914 to 1918 he took part as a soldier in the First World War, where he was deployed on the Western Front . He then completed a commercial apprenticeship and was then employed, among other things, as a commercial clerk and department manager. From 1919 to 1921 he belonged to the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund and from 1920 to 1921 German national organizations. During the Ruhr uprising he was involved in battles against left-wing workers. In 1922 he was the founder of the first local NSDAP group in Münster , which he also led with an interruption until 1932. From 1928 to 1932 he was also district leader of the party in Münster. Hartmann also founded the SA in Münster and was SA leader there from 1924 to 1929. Later he switched to the SS (membership number 353.038), where he achieved the rank of Sturmbannführer in January 1940 . From 1931 to 1933 he was head of the Gaupersonalamt and from 1932 to 1939 he was Gauinspector of the Gaus Westfalen Nord. From January to May 1933 he was provisional district leader in Tecklenburg and in late summer 1933 of Münster city. From April 1934 until the end of the Nazi regime he was a Gauredner and from October 1937 an assessor at the Gau Court in Westphalia-North. He was the holder of the golden party badge of the NSDAP . Hartmann was a member of the Prussian state parliament from 1932 until it was dissolved. From November 1933 until the end of the Nazi regime in spring 1945, Hartmann was a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for constituency 17 (North Westphalia) .

After the National Socialists seized power, Hartmann became the first district administrator of the NSDAP in the Prussian district of Herford ( province of Westphalia ) and the first after the more than 100-year history of the von Borries family in this office. He exercised the district office from 1933 to 1944. From 1943 to 1944 he was also district administrator in the district of Bielefeld . Friedrich Kleim was his successor in Herford . In Herford he was only provisionally in office from 1933 to 1934. On May 17, 1943, he took over the office of district administrator in the district of Halle (Westphalia) for about three months . From August 1, 1943 to May 30, 1944 he acted together with the Herford mayor Kleim as deputy district administrator in the district of Minden . From December 18, 1944 on, he was also a member of the regional council of the Upper President in Büren .

After the Second World War he was in the Neuengamme internment camp from April 1946 to mid-October 1947 . After that he made his living as a mill and forest worker in Schliprüthen . At the beginning of February 1949 he was sentenced to three years imprisonment by the Bielefeld Regional Court for crimes against humanity, but released on October 7, 1950. Afterwards he was employed at the Humana-Milch-Werke in Herford, most recently as a department head.

literature

• B. Rausch: The career of Erich Hartmann. SA founder, district leader, district administrator, dairy representative . In: Kreisheimatverein Herford (Hrsg.): Local history contributions from the Herford district . tape 52/2005 . Herford 2005, ISBN 978-3-89534-548-7 .
• Sahrhage, Norbert: Dictatorship and Democracy in a Protestant Region. City and district of Herford 1929 to 1953. In: Herford research . tape 18 . Publishing house for regional history, Herford 2005.
• Joachim Lilla: Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , p. 172 ( Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia. 22, A, 16 = historical work on Westphalian regional research. Economic and social history group. 16)

Web links

• Internet portal "Westphalian history": Hartmann Erich
• Erich Hartmann in the database of members of the Reichstag