Ferdinand von Hiddessen

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Ferdinand von Hiddessen (born December 17, 1887 in Minden ; † January 24, 1971 in Neustadt ) was a German aviation pioneer and politician ( NSDAP ).

Life

He came from the Warburg patrician family von Hiddessen . After graduating from the Ilfeld Abbey School in 1907, Hiddessen joined the Leib-Dragoon Regiment (2nd Grand Ducal Hessian) No. 24 in Darmstadt as a flag squire , where he was promoted to lieutenant in 1908 .

In 1910 he became a student pilot with August Euler and received the pilot's certificate No. 47 from the German Aviation Association. He took part in maneuvers and flight competitions, won several prizes, carried out the first regular mail flights in June 1912 and in the same year the first flight for collecting weather data, for which a meteorograph was mounted on his aircraft.

From 1914 he took part in the First World War. On August 30, 1914, a few weeks after the start of the war, Hiddessen was the first German pilot to undertake an enemy flight to Paris during the war , which was primarily used for propaganda purposes; he and his observer dropped leaflets calling on the Parisian population to surrender and some light bombs (2 kg) on ​​the Quai de Valmy. There is different information about the number of bombs, hits and damage that were caused. A Paris newspaper report from September 1, 1914 speaks of only insignificant damage, a later report of an injured young girl named, others of one, two or more deaths. Whether Hiddessen's flight to Paris was actually the first flight against a target inhabited by civilians is controversial, as the German pilot Hermann Dreßler is said to have dropped bombs on Paris the day before and the Italian lieutenant Giulio Gavotti was in the Italian army as early as 1911. Turkish war the Tagiura -Oase attacked with bombs.

When Hiddessen was shot down over Verdun in 1915 , he was seriously wounded and taken prisoner by the French . After his return from captivity, Hiddessen took his leave with the rank of Rittmeister in order to settle down as a farmer.

At the end of the 1920s, Hiddessen became a member of the NSDAP. Since 1929 he sat for this in the district council of Schweidnitz . In 1932 he also became a member of the district committee. In 1933 he took over the chairmanship of the party's internal investigation and arbitration committee (Gau-USchla) Silesia ( Supreme Party Court of the NSDAP ). In April 1933, Hiddessen received a mandate for the Reichstag in the replacement procedure for the resigned MP Helmuth Brückner , in which he represented constituency 7 (Silesia) until November of the same year. After he himself had been arrested for a short time during the Röhm Putsch , he moved up to the National Socialist Reichstag in July 1934 as a substitute for the SA Oberführer Edmund Heines who was shot in the Röhm Putsch , in which he now holds until March 1936 Represented constituency 8 (Liegnitz); In 1936 and 1938 he was unsuccessfully proposed for the Reichstag election.

On February 24, 1933, Hiddessen was appointed police chief in Waldenburg / Lower Silesia, which ended his job in the Gau-USchla. Also in 1933 he joined the Sturmabteilung (SA), in which he was in command of Standard 46, and later Standard 37.

Shortly after the establishment of the National Socialist Air Corps NSFK in 1937, he joined this organization, which ended his SA membership at the same time. He initially led the NSFK standard Waldenburg, from May 1939 the NSFK group south-west in Karlsruhe and Strasbourg. In early 1940 he was drafted into the Air Force as a captain. His application for dismissal from the office of Waldenburg Police President was granted with effect from September 4, 1940, after he had left Waldenburg more than a year earlier. On January 30, 1943, Hiddessen was awarded the NSDAP's Golden Party Badge for his services in setting up the NSFK Alsace (award statement).

After the end of the war, three and a half years of internment and completion of the denazification process , Hiddessen ran a farm in the Black Forest. After the Second World War, he received domestic and foreign honors for his flying achievements.

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  1. ↑ Flight , May 24, 1913, p. 575.
  2. ^ Stefan Emeis, Cornelia Lüde: From Beaufort to Bjerknes and beyond. 2005, pp. 219, 241., doi : 10.1256 / wea.58.06
  3. ↑ Le Journal du Dimanche, Dernière Heure of May 30, 1965, J'ai bombardé Paris le premier en 1914.
  4. ^ Eric Fisher Wood, The Note Book Of An Attaché, Seven Months in the War Zone , p. 46
  5. ^ Joseph A. Phelan: Heroes & Airplanes of the Great War, 1914-1918 , 1966, p. 15.
  6. ^ Edward Jablonski: Man with Wings. A pictorial History of Aviation , 1980, p. 117.
  7. ↑ Peter Supf, Das Buch der deutschen Fluggeschichte , 1935/1958, p. 283
  8. ^ 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 , p. 239.
  9. ^ Klaus D. Patzwall : The Golden Party Badge and its honorary awards 1934-1944 . tape 4 . Patzwall, Norderstedt 2004, ISBN 3-931533-50-6 , p. 71 .
personal data
SURNAME Hiddessen, Ferdinand von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Minden
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1971
Place of death Neustadt in the Black Forest