Ernst Dürrfeld

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Ernst Dürrfeld in the Reichstag Handbook 1936

Ernst Dürrfeld (born October 19, 1898 in Heiligenwald , † April 23, 1945 in Tübingen ) was a German politician (NSDAP) and Lord Mayor of Saarbrücken.

Life

Ernst Dürrfeld was the son of a miner. After attending elementary school, he worked in a colliery in 1913/1914 in order to be trained at a military preparation institute. He then took part in the First World War, from which he returned as a disabled man. After his demobilization in March 1919, he became an auxiliary pit guard. From April 1923 to September 1925 he worked as a money counter in the Reichsbank branch in Saarbrücken . Since 1922 a member of the NSDAP, he was involved in founding the party newspaper Saardeutsche Volksstimme . During the NSDAP ban, he was a member of the National Socialist Saardeutschen Volksbund from April 1925 . He was expelled from the Saar area in 1926 because of National Socialist activities .

Dürrfeld was NSDAP local group leader in Kaiserslautern from June 1926, provisional district leader from October 1928, district leader from 1929 to 1931 and then district leader until the end of February. From July 1926 he worked for the city administration in Kaiserslautern. Initially city councilor, Dürrfeld became leader of the NSDAP faction in the city council of Kaiserslautern on January 1, 1930 . In March 1933 he became a member of the SA Special Commissioner of OSAF in the city of Kaiserslautern.

After the National Socialist seizure of power , Dürrfeld was appointed office secretary to the city administration on May 1, 1933 and, at the beginning of May 1934, second mayor of Kaiserslautern. In May 1935 he was entrusted with the post of Lord Mayor of Saarbrücken, but dismissed on September 2, 1937 and retired on December 31 of that year. The reason for this was Dürrfeld's lack of administrative experience and his well-known drinking bouts. From March 1935 to September 1937 he was also NSDAP district leader Saarbrücken-Stadt. From July 1935 to December 1937 he was also chairman of the supervisory board of Ferngasgesellschaft Saar.

On March 1, 1935, Dürrfeld subsequently moved into the Reichstag elected in November 1933 (period of National Socialism) in accordance with Article 2 of the Act on the Representation of the Saarland in the Reichstag of January 30, 1935 , which he subsequently until the end of the NS - Rule in spring 1945, initially as a member of parliament for the Saarland constituency and from 1936 for constituency 27 (Rheinpfalz-Saar).

After the annexation of Austria , he was deputy district election supervisor in the district of Vienna in spring 1938 and from October 1938 headed the retraining camp for non-Aryans at the Reich Commissioner for the reunification of Austria with the German Reich . During the Second World War , he was an economic advisor in German-occupied Poland from 1940 to 1944 and, as a department head, head of finance at the Warsaw City Council . In addition, from 1942 he was responsible for the city's municipal utilities and transport operations. In July 1944 he survived an assassination attempt by Akcja Główki . From October 1944 until the end of the war he worked in the Reich Ministry for Armaments and War Production . At the NSKK he reached the rank of Oberführer in late January 1944.

His widow Else Dürrfeld nee In July 1950, Brunn's attempt to assert claims for survivors' benefits within the framework of the civil service regulations failed. However, the pension she was entitled to under the War Victims Act was retained due to Dürrfeld's severe war damage. A Saarbrücken bank account of Dürrfeld in the amount of 26,000 RM, on the other hand, was withdrawn by the court in the denazification .

literature

  • Hanns Klein: Short biographies of the mayors of (old) Saarbrücken, St. Johanns, Malstatt-Burbachs and the city of Saarbrücken . In: Journal for the history of the Saar region, XIX, Saarbrücken 1971, pp. 510-538. On Dürrfeld p. 528f.
  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historischer Verein der Pfalz: Yearbook on the history of the city and district of Kaiserslautern, Vol. 34–35, 1998, p. 73.
  2. ^ Hans-Walter Hermann: Saarbrücken under the Nazi rule. In: Rolf Wittenbrock (ed.): History of the city of Saarbrücken. From the time of rapid growth to the present. Volume 2. Saarbrücker Druckerei und Verlag, Saarbrücken 1999, ISBN 3-930843-41-2 , p. 265.
  3. ↑ Andrea Loew: German Reich and Protectorate September 1939 - September 1941 (= The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933-1945 vol. 3). Oldenbourg, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-58524-7 , p. 138, note 3
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of September 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 16, 2017
  5. ^ Gerhard Nestler: The Palatinate in the post-war period. Reconstruction and a new democratic beginning , 2004, p. 142.
personal data
SURNAME Dürrfeld, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Heiligenwald (Schiffweiler)
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1945
Place of death Tübingen