Friedhelm Kemper

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Friedhelm Kemper

Friedhelm Traugott Georg Kemper (born November 24, 1906 in Pyritz , † April 2, 1990 in Mosbach ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

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The son of an editor and writer attended the elementary school in Mülheim-Speldorf from 1913 to 1918 and then until 1921 the middle school in Halle . Between 1921 and 1924, Kemper completed a commercial apprenticeship at the Saale-Zeitung in Halle. In addition, he attended the commercial vocational school there. From 1924 to 1927 he worked as an employee of the Weinheimer Anzeiger and then worked for the Hallesche Nachrichten and the Generalanzeiger Halle until 1928 . In 1930 Kemper married; the marriage resulted in four children.

Kemper belonged to the Wandervogel movement and in 1921 he joined the völkisch youth league eagle and falcon . In January 1923 he joined the NSDAP. In 1925 he became a member of the youth group of the Schlageterbund , a cover organization of the banned SA . After the party ban was lifted , he rejoined the NSDAP ( membership number 41,017) in 1926. Kemper belonged to the Weinheim local group under Walter Köhler and appeared as a speaker for the party in the Weinheim area and in the southern Odenwald. Apparently dismissed in Weinheim because of his anti-Semitic attitude, he headed the local NSDAP group there after moving to Halle. From 1928 he was an NSDAP Gauredner; later he was appointed imperial speaker.

From spring 1928 Kemper was again active in Baden and took over the distribution of the NSDAP Gau newspaper Der Führer in the Mannheim area. In 1930 he was replaced by Karl Lenz as the Mannheim NSDAP local group and district leader after internal party disputes . Kemper became sales manager of the newspaper Der Führer and belonged to the propaganda department of the Gauleitung. He was temporarily a member of the SA reserve. In 1932 he followed Felix Wankel as leader of the Hitler Youth (HJ) in Baden.

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists, Gauleiter and Reich Commissioner Robert Wagner appointed Kemper as special commissioner for youth care and youth movement and youth leader in Baden. In April 1933, Kemper became a member of the last Baden state parliament for a few months . He then sat from November 1933 until the end of Nazi rule in spring 1945 as a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for constituency 32 (Baden) .

Kemper, who was appointed HJ Obergebietsführer in 1937, was one of the organizers of the book burning in Baden. He restricted the rights of denominational youth associations through several decrees and in speeches attacked their leaders as enemies of the Nazi regime. After the German attack in the west , from 1940 he was also responsible for the Hitler Youth in the de facto annexed Alsace . From summer 1939 to February 1942 as well as in the final phase of the Second World War , Kemper was drafted into the Wehrmacht .

After the end of the Nazi regime, Kemper surrendered to the American military authorities in June 1945 and was interned in Kornwestheim and Ludwigsburg according to the automatic arrest . During the denazification , the Karlsruhe Spruchkammer classified him in July 1948 as an “incriminated person” and sentenced him to three years' imprisonment, to which the internment was counted, and to confiscate 20% of his property. After his release, Kemper worked temporarily as a farm worker, later as a freelance sales representative. The collection of the fine imposed in the denazification was stopped in 1954 because it was hopeless. Kemper lived first in Wenkheim , later in Schefflenz .

literature

  • Tobias Wöhrle: Kemper, Friedhelm Traugott Georg. In: Fred Ludwig Septainter (Ed.): Baden-Württembergische Biographien. Volume V, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-17-024863-2 , pp. 217-219.
  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , p. 302 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wöhrle, Kemper , p. 217.
  2. ↑ Wöhrle, Kemper , p. 218.
personal data
SURNAME Kemper, Friedhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kemper, Friedhelm Traugott Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Pyritz
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1990
Place of death Mosbach