Ernst Schlange (politician, September 1888)

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Ernst Schlange (born September 1, 1888 on Gut Schwaneberg , Prenzlau district , † 1947 ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

Life

Ernst Schlange was the eldest son of a manor owner. After attending primary school and graduating from high school, he began to study law and political science at the Royal University of Greifswald . In 1908 he was reciprocated in the Corps Pomerania Greifswald . When he was inactive, he moved to the Friedrichs University in Halle . During his studies he worked as a trainee at Mitteldeutsche Privat-Bank Halle . Except for the time in Halle, he was active at Pomerania throughout his studies. In 1912, on the day of the first state examination, he was philisted . From 1913 he was employed by the Darmstädter Bank in Berlin. After completing her traineeship and doctorate as a Dr. iur. In 1914 he passed the Great State Examination in Prenzlau .

Since his left hand was mutilated in a hunting accident, it was only on the ninth attempt that he was drafted as a volunteer . From November 1914 he was on the Western Front , in 1915 he was transferred to the Eastern Front . After being wounded on May 31, 1915 near Stepj in Galicia , he lost his right arm and right lung. As a lieutenant in the reserve in Kaiser Franz Garde Grenadier Regiment No. 2 , he married in 1917.

After the end of the war, Schlange joined the Prussian civil service as a court assessor in 1918. From 1923 he had been a government advisor to the trustee for hostile property, became a member of the Reichsausgleichsamt in January 1925, and in August 1929 moved to the Reichsfinanzverwaltung as a councilor .

In 1922, Schlange belonged to the völkisch - anti - Semitic German Social Party (DtSP) around Richard Kunze and founded the DtSP local groups in Wilmersdorf, Zehlendorf and Steglitz. At the beginning of February 1925, Schlange initiated the short-lived Greater German People's Community in Berlin , which on February 17 was already part of the newly founded National Socialist German Workers' Party . In the NSDAP, Schlange had the very low membership number 4387.

From March 1925 to June 1926, Schlange was the Gauleiter of the NSDAP in the Berlin-Brandenburg Gau, which had around 350 members. His tenure as Berlin Gauleiter was marked by disputes over the party's course. As a close confidante of Otto Strasser , he spoke out against founding the SA in Berlin, but was unable to assert himself. In particular, from the ban on the front , SA formations emerged that stood in line in explicit opposition. The political orientation was less controversial than the reluctance of the NSDAP to take power legally. Schlange, who was also criticized within his own party wing for his weak leadership style, resigned as Gauleiter in June 1926.

Schlange moved to Potsdam, where he was responsible for building up the NSDAP and becoming chairman of the local parliamentary group . In October 1930 he was appointed Gauleiter of the Brandenburg Gau as the successor to Emil Holtz . In 1932 he was elected to the Prussian Landtag , to which he belonged until the corporation was dissolved in October 1933. In disputes between Schlange and his organizational leader Josef Schönwälder about the party structures in the Gau, the Reich leadership intervened in favor of Schönwälder and pointed out that the situation in the party had changed considerably since Schlange's previous activity as Gauleiter. On March 16, 1933, Schlange was recalled as Gauleiter; later the Gau was merged with the Gau Ostmark to form the new Gau Kurmark. In 1934 he was appointed President of the General Management of the Prussian-South German Class Lottery.

Schlange died in Soviet custody in 1947.

Corps student

In a letter dated September 28, 1934, Schlange, both obediently and unmistakably, urged “his Führer” Adolf Hitler to have Andreas Feickert's anti-union order withdrawn. As the successor to Max Blunck , Schlange became chairman ("Führer") of the KSCV and the Association of Old Corps Students (VAC) in autumn 1935 . On October 24, 1935, he decreed that “all Reich German corps are suspended”. Schlange deliberately let the VAC persist; his justification for the suspension of the active corps did not apply to him. Schlange drafted a new VAC statute (which was approved by the Reich and Prussia and was legally binding), an honor and weapon regulation of the VAC and an honor protection agreement between the VAC and the Reich Association of German Officers (April 1936).

family

Ernst Schlange's cousin Ernst Schlange (1888–1967) was a farmer and sat in the Reichstag for the NSDAP in 1932, his older brother Hans Schlange-Schöningen (1886–1960) was also a politician and most recently German ambassador in London in the post-war period.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 53/605
  2. ^ Martin Schuster: The SA in the National Socialist "seizure of power" in Berlin and Brandenburg 1926-1934. (pdf, 3.8 MB) Dissertation, Technical University Berlin 2005, p. 19.
  3. ^ Martin Schuster: The SA in the National Socialist "seizure of power" in Berlin and Brandenburg 1926-1934. Technische Universität Berlin 2005, p. 37. Bernhard Sauer: Goebbels »Rabauken«. On the history of the SA in Berlin-Brandenburg. (pdf, 6.5 MB) In: Yearbook of the Berlin State Archives, 2006, p. 111.
  4. ^ Martin Schuster: The SA in the National Socialist "seizure of power" in Berlin and Brandenburg 1926-1934. (pdf, 3.8 MB) Dissertation, Technical University Berlin 2005, p. 123 ff.
  5. ↑ Kristina Hübner, Wolfgang Rose: The Brandenburg NS Gau - An inventory. In: Jürgen John (Ed.): The NS-Gaue. Regional middle authorities in the centralized “leader state”. (= Series of the quarterly books for contemporary history , special issue) Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-58086-0 , S, 263-279, here p. 269 f.
  6. ↑ a b Udo Wengst :  Hans Schlange-Schöningen. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 26 ( digitized version ).
  7. ↑ The decree was probably only intended for the “outside world” and was intended as a recommendation within the association. Most corps followed her and made their own suspension decisions because Schlange's tactical university-political justification convinced them ( Egbert Weiß )
  8. ↑ corpsarchive.de (pdf, 16 MB)
predecessor Office successor
Max Blunck "Leader of the VAC"
1936–1938 		Gerd Schaefer-Rolffs (1947)
personal data
SURNAME Snake, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DtSP, NSDAP), MdL, Gauleiter
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Gut Schwaneberg , Prenzlau district
DATE OF DEATH 1947