Erich Plesse

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Erich Emil August Friedrich Plesse (born July 13, 1908 in Essen ; † unknown, missing since January 1945, declared dead in 1953 and set for January 28, 1945 ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ). From 1933 to 1945 he was mayor of the city of Lingen , as well as district leader of the NSDAP in the district of Lingen . Later he worked in the NSDAP party chancellery in Munich.

Life

Erich Plesse was the son of the regional cultural inspector Rudolf Plesse and his wife Karolina geb. Brünig. He attended school in Brilon , Ortelsburg and, most recently, Nienburg an der Weser. His parents had moved from Nienburg to Lingen in 1925 for professional reasons , but he himself remained in Nienburg until he graduated from high school in 1927. In the summer semester of 1927 he began to study medicine in Münster, but moved to the University of Rostock in the summer of 1929. Here he also joined the NSDAP on September 1, 1929. He passed a preliminary examination to become a doctor in March 1931, after which he de-registered and moved to live with his parents in Lingen. A medical internship did not materialize, so that in Lingen he mainly devoted himself to party work.

In the summer of 1931 he replaced the merchant and wine merchant Bernhard Kramer as local group leader of the NSDAP-Lingen. The district of Lingen initially belonged to NSDAP district 26 which was led by Josef Ständer . Lingen was detached as a separate district on July 1, 1932, an office was set up at Gymnasialstrasse 3 and Erich Plesse was appointed as district leader of the NSDAP in the Lingen district. He led a feud with the mayor of Lingen, Hermann Gilles of the Center Party, which resulted in the removal of Gilles after the seizure of power. He had previously launched a corruption campaign against Gilles in order to discredit him. In addition to the mayor's office, Gilles was also the chief of the police and had the NSDAP in Lingen monitored and fought, which attracted Plesse's anger. After the seizure of power, he had the district president Bernhard Eggers remove the school councilors Heinrich Meyer and Schwenne, who were close to the center, from Lingen.

On July 17, 1937, he gave the racing driver and SS Hauptsturmführer Bernd Rosemeyer , who was born in Lingen, a big reception on the Lingen market square . After Rosemeyer's death in 1938 he ordered the renaming of Lingener Bahnhofstrasse to Bernd-Rosemeyer-Strasse .

In April 1941 he was drafted into the army, but was paid by the city of Lingen until 1944. On September 14, 1944, he was released from the Wehrmacht in order to move to the party office in Munich. According to his wife, he has been missing on the Eastern Front near Pomerania since January 1945 .

literature

  • Helmut Lensing : Plesse . In: Emsländische Geschichte 14, ed. from the Study Society for Emsland Regional History, Haselünne 2007, pp. 284–305. ISBN 3-9808021-5-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Lensing: Plesse (= Study Society for Emsland Regional History [Hrsg.]: Emsland History . Volume 14 ). Haselünne 2007, ISBN 3-9808021-5-9 , p. 284 .
  2. ↑ In the Emsland, NSDAP district leaders proceeded brutally. In: noz.de. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , January 29, 2008, accessed on May 19, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Thomas Pertz: Bernd-Rosemeyer-Straße in Lingen "extremely embarrassing". In: noz.de. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , April 20, 2017, accessed on May 19, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Plesse, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plesse, Erich Emil August Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political functionary (NSDAP)
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1945