Erich Mackeldey

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Erich Mackeldey (around 1920)

Erich W. Mackeldey (born April 22, 1892 in Schwarza , Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt ; † officially: December 31, 1945 ) was a German farmer and politician ( Thuringian Land Association , NSDAP ). He was a member of the Reichstag (1920–21), a member of the Thuringian state parliament (1920–24) and from 1927 to 1945 a state councilor in the Thuringian state government .

Live and act

Mackeldey was born the son of a landowner. He attended secondary schools in Rudolstadt and Erfurt , where he graduated from high school. Later he took over the management of his father's estate in Schwarza-Saalbahn. From 1914 to 1918 Mackeldey took part in the First World War on foot with the Prussian 1st Guard Regiment .

In the Reichstag elections of June 1920 Mackeldey was as nomination of the United Agricultural professional associations of Thuringia for the constituency 13 (Thuringia) in the Reichstag elected. Mackeldey was an intern in the parliamentary group of the German National People's Party (DNVP). On February 23, 1921, he resigned his mandate and then resigned from the Reichstag; his mandate was taken over by Franz Hänse . Mackeldey was a co-founder and board member of the Thuringian Land Federation and the German Land Federation , for the former he belonged to the Landtag of Thuringia from 1920 to 1924 . In addition, he was also a board member of the Agricultural Council Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and the Food Committee of Thuringia as well as a member of the local council and the district committee.

From 1927 to 1945 Mackeldey belonged to the Thuringian state governments Leutheußer II , Paulssen II , Baum , Sauckel and Marschler as a state council without a portfolio and representative of the former Free State of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt .

On May 1, 1933, he joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (membership number 1,851,972) and later became SS-Scharführer . From August 1933 he was managing director of the Thuringian farmers' health aid and from 1937 to 1945 head of the Thuringian agricultural and forestry professional association.

In July 1945 the Soviet occupation army arrested Mackeldey in Weimar. Internment in special camp No. 2 in Buchenwald followed . His further fate is unknown. In 1960 he was declared dead by the Munich District Court with the time of death December 31, 1945.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Bernhard Post, Volker Wahl (Ed.): Thuringia Handbook. Territory, constitution, parliament, government and administration in Thuringia 1920 to 1995 (= publications from Thuringian state archives; 1). Weimar 1999, ISBN 3-7400-0962-4 , p. 607.
  2. ^ Reichstag handbook , vol .: 1920 (Bavarian State Library)
  3. ↑ Negotiations of the Reichstag, Volume 380 (Bavarian State Library)

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SURNAME Mackeldey, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mackeldey, Erich W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German farmer and politician (ThLB, NSDAP), MdR, MdL, State Council
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwarza
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1945