Erich Moning

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Erich Moning (born November 11, 1902 in Schwerte , † September 13, 1967 in Buschhütten ) was a German politician .

Life

Moning was mayor of Hilchenbach until 1932 and then moved to the Ferndorf office as mayor . He held this position until the end of National Socialism .

Moning was a member of the NSDAP's ring of sacrifices and , after the four-year ban on membership, was also a member of the NSDAP in 1937 (No. 5,889,298). His application for membership was rejected by the district leadership, but was approved by the district leadership. The leader of the regional SA Standard 130 offered him admission to the staff of his standard. According to the SA regular role, he also joined the SA, which, however, he denied in 1947. Moning was a supporting member of the SS and since 1934 in the BNSDJ . Here he held the office of local group leader. He was also a member of the also National Socialist associations Association for Germanness Abroad (VDA) and Reichsbund Deutsche Familie (RDF) . At least in 1933 he confessed to the German Christians .

Dismissed by the British military government as mayor because of Nazi charges, he was appointed as a district administrator from June 1, 1945 to February 1946, was then district financial director from February 5, 1946 to June 1947 and from July 1, 1946 to August 23, 1947 in personal union also acting Oberkreisdirektor (OKD). After he was proposed by the district council as the future OKD of the district of Siegen as a non-party, which the military government initially rejected, he held this post in an elected position from August 1947 until he retired early in 1963 due to health reasons.

In the conflict over this office, Moning's memberships focused on his activities in the deportation of three citizens who were allegedly “anti-social” between 1939 and 1942 and were deported to the Sachsenhausen , Wewelsburg and Ravensbrück concentration camps , two of whom died there. Moning declared in 1947 that "all three cases were anti-social" and that "there were no political moments at all". Neither he nor the others involved in the decision had known at the end of 1938 that “that in a labor camp or. Reformatory camp people were murdered ”. That was "not even known from the concentration camps at the time". Whether the non-survivors "were murdered or died a natural death" at all cannot be determined, and one of the two was inclined to commit suicide anyway.

In the denazification process , it was first classified in category IV (without property freeze), then as unencumbered in V with the note “wearable as OKD”. On various occasions, he gave relief in denazification procedures or recommended (as with Otto Krasa ) the award of the Federal Cross of Merit in favor of former party members.

From 1947 until his health-related resignation from office in 1963 he was Oberkreisdirektor (OKD) . From 1952 he was a member of the supervisory board of Hüttenwerke Siegerland AG and was a member of the synod of the Evangelical Church of the Siegen district.

Moning received various honors: He was made an honorary member of the Turngau Siegerland and received the Siegtaler in gold from the Siegerland home association. In Kreuztal , the former Bergstrasse on Dörnberg was named after him (Dr.-Erich-Moning-Strasse).

literature

  • Erich Moning: "I stay here" , Siegener Zeitung from January 19, 2010, p. 6
  • Obituary in the Siegerland home calendar 1969, p. 159
  • Lothar Irle , Siegerland Personalities and Gender Lexicon, Siegen 1974, p. 226

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lothar Irle, Siegerland Personalities and Gender Lexicon, Siegen 1974, p. 226.
  2. ^ Regional encyclopedia of persons on National Socialism in the old districts of Siegen and Wittgenstein, article Richard Odendahl .
  3. ↑ This and the following information according to: Regional personal dictionary on National Socialism in the old districts of Siegen and Wittgenstein, article Erich Moning .
  4. ^ Otto Renkhoff: Nassau biography. Short biographies from 13 centuries, Wiesbaden 1992. ISBN 3-922244-90-4 , p. 525.
  5. ↑ See HP of the archive of the Siegen-Wittgenstein district, [1] ; regarding the post-NS-Vita Moning z. Information partly contradicting the content of the district archive data in Lothar Irle, Siegerland Personalities and Gender Lexicon, Siegen 1974, p. 226; Erich Moning: "I stay here", in: Siegener Zeitung, January 19, 2010, p. 6 or Erich Moning: "I stay here", [2] .
  6. ↑ Active memorial book for the victims of National Socialism in the Wittgenstein district, personal article Walter Brombach and Richard Heide
personal data
SURNAME Moning, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP, later non-party)
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Swords
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1967
Place of death Bush huts