Ernst Hintzmann

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Ernst Hintzmann

Ernst Hintzmann (born June 23, 1880 in Malchin , † January 17, 1951 in Bremen ) was a German naval officer , most recently rear admiral and Bremen politician (DVP, DNVP).

biography

Ernst Hintzmann was born as the son of the later senior secondary school director in Elberfeld Ernst Hintzmann (1853–1913). He attended elementary school in Remscheid and high schools in Magdeburg and Elberfeld .

Imperial Navy

On April 7, 1897, Hintzmann joined the Imperial Navy as a cadet and initially served on the training ship SMS Stein and on the cruiser corvette SMS Sophie . He became a midshipman in 1898. In 1899 he was appointed ensign in the sea , in 1900 as lieutenant in the sea and in 1902 as first lieutenant in the sea . In the following years he held changing commands, including abroad, until he finally commanded various torpedo boats and torpedo boat units as captain lieutenant (since April 6, 1907) until 1913 . From 1908 to 1910 he took the 1st and 2nd Coetus at the Naval Academy . During this time he had married in 1909. After graduating from the academy, he became a consultant in the torpedo test command from 1910. From 1913 to 1914 he was a navigation officer on the large liner SMS Kaiser .

In the first two years of the First World War , he was Corvette Captain until 1916, First Adjutant for the inspection of torpedo weapons . During these times he met some later important men such as Ernst von Weizsäcker (1882–1951) and Gottfried Treviranus (1891–1971). From 1916 he was again as a navigation officer on the large liner ships SMS Friedrich der Große and SMS Baden and in 1917 a staff officer - most recently as chief of operations - with the admiral's staff at the command of the high seas. Following a brief interlude (1918-1919) as a naval delegate to the German Armistice Commission , Hintzmann retired from the Navy in autumn 1919 with the rank of frigate captain .

Politician in Bremen

Ernst Hintzmann moved to Bremen in 1919. He found his political home here in the German People's Party (DVP). He took over the office of constituency manager of his party in Bremen and represented the DVP from 1920 to 1928 in the Bremen citizenship . In 1925 he became regional chairman of the DVP. From 1925 to 1927 Hintzmann worked as an authorized signatory at Kaffee Hag in Bremen, then until 1929 as director of the Weser newspaper . A focus of his political activity was the involvement in the Hindenburgbund, the youth organization of the DVP. In May 1928 Hintzmann was elected to the Reichstag for the first time , to which he - re-elected in September 1930 - was a member until July 1932 as a representative of constituency 14 (Weser-Ems). At this time he took a political jolt to the right: He left the DVP and joined the German National People's Party (DNVP), for which he returned to the Reichstag in November 1932 in the old constituency. The reason for the break with the DVP was the policy of the DVP, which Hintzmann saw as a lack of direction. After he was re-elected in March 1933 , he was a member of the German parliament this time until November 1933. During his time as a member of parliament, he voted, among other things, for the adoption of the Enabling Act in March 1933. In the DNVP, Hintzmann devoted himself primarily to building up the German Youth Association until it was dissolved.

Navy

In 1933, Ernst Hintzmann took over the management of the Federation of German Navy Associations, which on May 1, 1934, became part of the Reichskriegerbund as the National Socialist German Navy Federation. Hintzmann carried out this activity until 1941. On October 1, 1937, he was reactivated as a sea ​​captain in the navy and until 1939 was a military representative in the Netherlands and Belgium . He was then notified as a naval attaché at the German embassy in the Netherlands from October 1, 1939 . He held this office until May 10, 1940 and then changed post of head of the Oberwerftstab in the Netherlands. During this time he was given the status of Rear Admiral in 1938 and the rank of Rear Admiral in 1944. On January 31, 1944, he was released from active military service and returned to Berlin, where he also had a residence from 1938 to 1945. Shortly before the end of the war, he was arrested in Berlin and thus became a prisoner of war .

After the war, he returned to Bremen sick in 1946 and lived secluded in Lesum . Ernst Hintzmann died on January 17, 1951 in Bremen.

Awards

Fonts

  • Navy, war and revolution. The German Fleet Werden, Work and Die , 1919.

literature

  • Klaus Volker, Giessler, The Institution of the Naval Attaché in the Kaiserrein, Harald Boldt Verlag. Boppard on the Rhine, 1976
  • Hans Hildebrand, Ernest Henriot, Deutschlands Admirale 1849-1945, Volume 2 H-Qu, Biblio Verlag 1988, p. 102f.
  • Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , pp. 159–160.
  • Marineattaché, Books LLC, Wiki Series, Memphis USA, 2011, p. 7 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Hildebrand, Ernest Henriot, Deutschlands Admirale 1849-1945, Volume 2 H-Qu, Biblio Verlag 1988, p. 102f.
  2. ^ Marineattaché, Books LLC, Wiki Series, Memphis USA, 2011, p. 7 f.
  3. ^ Larry Eugenes Jones / James N. Retallack: Elections, Mass Politics, and Social Change in Modern Germany. New Perspectives , 1992, p. 367.
  4. ↑ Ludwig Arndt: Military associations in Northern Germany 2008, p. 236.
  5. ^ Klaus Volker, Giessler, The Institution of the Naval Attaché in the Kaiserrein, Harald Boldt Verlag. Boppard on the Rhine, 1976
  6. ↑ Hans Hildebrand, Ernest Henriot, Deutschlands Admirale 1849-1945, Volume 2 H-Qu, Biblio Verlag 1988, p. 102f.
  7. ^ Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X , p. 391 f.
  8. ^ A b c d Ranking list of the Imperial German Navy for 1918 , Ed .: Marine-Kabinett, Mittler & Sohn Verlag, Berlin 1918, p. 21.
personal data
SURNAME Hintzmann, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval officer and politician (DVP, DNVP), MdBB, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Malchin
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 1951
Place of death Bremen