Ernst Katzmann

Ernst Katzmann

Ernst Katzmann (born November 10, 1897 in Vieselbach , † June 6, 1968 in Mannheim ) was a German NSDAP politician.

Professional life

Katzmann was a master chimney sweep in Vieselbach , and since April 1933 then a district chimney sweep . In May 1935 he became Deputy Reich Guild Master . Other offices were regional handicrafts leader of Central Germany , board member of the "Reichsstand des Deutschen Handwerks" and president of the Chamber of Crafts in Weimar .

Political life

Until the end of the Nazi era

Katzmann represented constituency 12 of Thuringia from 1930 to 1936 as a member of the Reichstag . He was also a Thuringian State Councilor . Other functions were Gauleiter in the Kampfbund for the commercial middle class and Gauleiter of the NS-Hago , the trade, craft and trade organization of the German Labor Front (DAF).

post war period

In the wanted list of the Americans in 1945 Ernst Katzmann can be found under the registration "38856 M 97 NSDAP Reichsredner ".

The date of his death on September 19, 1957 in Darmstadt, published in some books, was confused with SS-Gruppenführer Fritz Katzmann .

literature

• Schumacher, Martin: MdR, the Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic. Düsseldorf, Droste-Verlag, 1994. ISBN 3-7700-5183-1
• 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 .
• 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).

Web links

• Ernst Katzmann in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Chimney sweeps during the Nazi era
• Historical treatise on the chimney