Erich Spickschen

Erich Spickschen

Erich Spickschen (born July 23, 1897 in Vluyn , Moers district , Rhineland; † October 1, 1957 in Kirchheimbolanden , Donnersbergkreis , Rhineland-Palatinate) was a German farmer; during the Nazi era he was the regional farmers' leader in East Prussia.

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After elementary school , Spickschen attended the Adolfinum Royal High School in Moers. Before graduating from high school in August 1914, he volunteered for the military. In October 1914 he came to the Western Front, where he soon belonged to the group of NCOs. In the spring of 1915 he passed his military diploma. In September of the same year he was promoted to lieutenant in the reserve. Since the summer of 1917 he took part in heavy fighting, u. a. at the Battle of Verdun , the Marne Battle and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive . He was awarded the Iron Cross of both classes and the highest order in Württemberg.

In 1919, Spickschen worked as an agricultural apprentice first on a farm in Pomerania , then on various farms in southern Denmark to train as a farmer. He completed his visit to the agricultural school in Wolfsanger near Kassel in 1923 as a state-certified farmer. On the Tordengaard farm (Alsen) he met Gerda Ursula Dietrich (1903–1981) in 1921, whom he married in 1923. Both first leased the Bonkow estate in Western Pomerania, then the Schwesternhof estate in East Prussia , until they bought the Woydiethen estate in Samland in November 1926 .

The impact of the experience of the First World War and the growing emergency of agriculture led Spickschen to increased politicization during the end of the Weimar Republic. From February 1928 to March 1932 he was a member of the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten . On April 1, 1932, he joined the NSDAP , on July 1, 1933, he joined the SA .

In 1933 he became district farmer leader of the Fischhausen district and in the Reichsnährstand state chief department manager I of East Prussia. In December 1935 he was appointed regional farmer leader of East Prussia. In connection with this he became district manager for agricultural policy two years later. He was also General Landschaftsrat, Prussian Provincial Council and member of the Reichstag . In November 1936 Spickschen was - like all country farmers ' leaders - transferred from the SA to the "Allgemeine SS" in the double function as SS honorary leader, which was customary at the time , where he last had the rank of SS brigade leader in November 1942 .

When the attack on Poland in 1939 he was captain of the reserve. After that he was also responsible for the Zichenau administrative district as the East Prussian regional farmer's leader and, since the summer of 1941, for the Bialystok district. In late autumn 1944 he came to the Volkssturm .

After a leg wound shortly before the end of the war, he was taken prisoner by the Soviets in Königsberg . Marked by illnesses, he returned to West Germany at the beginning of June 1948. After a provisional stay with his wife and seven children in Bleckenstedt / Salzgitter , he leased an inn in Dannenfels (Donnersbergkreis) in November 1950 with an agricultural area of ​​almost 15 hectares. His health was weakened and he was only able to maintain the business with great effort. His versatile wife, who was not only active in agriculture and gastronomy, outlived him by 24 years.

literature

• Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).
• Christian Rohrer: National Socialist Power in East Prussia. (Colloquia Baltica, Vol. 7/8. Contributions to the history and culture of East Central Europe.) Martin Meidenbauer, Munich 2006. ISBN 3-89975-054-3
• Hans Joachim Schröder: All love & Heil Hitler. How false hopes arise. A family story. Book design: Carsten Kraemer. Code Verlag, Berlin 2012. ISBN 978-3-9815329-0-6

Web links

• Erich Spickschen in the database of members of the Reichstag