Schleswig-Holstein district

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Party headquarters of the German Reich 1944

The Schleswig-Holstein Gau was a regional administrative unit of the NSDAP .

Development and structure

The Parteigau mainly comprised the areas of the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein , which from March 31, 1937 ( Greater Hamburg Law ) also comprised the city of Lübeck , but at the same time lost the cities of Altona and Wandsbek to Hamburg . The Lübeck parts of the Free State of Oldenburg also belonged to the Gau. It was congruent with the area of ​​the Reichstag constituency 13. At the state level, power lay with the Reichsstatthalter for Prussia, Hermann Göring , who in 1933 appointed Gauleiter Hinrich Lohse as head president in the Prussian province , thereby abolishing the boundaries between state and party. The Gau capital was first Altona, then Kiel (Gauhaus: Jensenstrasse), the area was 15,687 km², the population (1941) 1,589,267 people.

The NSDAP Gau Schleswig-Holstein was founded on March 1, 1925 in Neumünster . Gregor Strasser appointed the Altona local group leader Hinrich Lohse as Gauleiter , who held this office until 1945. SA man Joachim Meyer-Quade held the office only briefly (July 15 - December 1932). The deputies were first the Itzehoeer Kreisleiter and Gauredner Paul Schneider , the DAF-Gauwalter Emil Brix (1932-1934?) And Wilhelm Sieh (1934 / 35-1945). The Dithmarsch peasant leader Hans Beeck concentrated the party building and the election campaigns on the discontented rural population, the blacksmith Hans Kummerfeldt on the dissatisfied class of craftsmen. Ernst Graf zu Reventlow was an agitator in the Reichstag.

The mayor of Neumünster Max Stahmer held important functions as district manager for local politics and the district head of the German labor front Emil Bannemann . District culture warden was first from 1931 the propagandist Paul Schneider, later the Low German writer Prof. Ivo Braak , district economic advisor to the Kiel Chamber of Commerce President Albert Malzahn. In 1936 the following were elected to the Reichstag: Hinrich Lohse, Joachim Meyer-Quade (SA-Gruppenführer in Schleswig-Holstein), Wilhelm Sieh, Jakob Sporrenberg (SS-Oberführer) and Otto Triebel (Oberstarbeitsführer). Gaufführer schools existed in Bordesholm Abbey , in Trittau and in Barsbüttel .

From 1941 Lohse was also responsible for the 'valuation' of the occupied territories for the war economy of the German Reich as well as for the annihilation of the Jewish population and the “ Germanization ” of large sections of the population in the Reichskommissariat Ostland , based in Riga . There he took many employees from the Gau with him to deploy them in strategic positions in civil administration, in particular as so-called area commissioners, such as Walter Alnor , district administrator of the Eckernförde district, Karl Eger from Meldorf, district administrator of Süderdithmarschen, Hans Gewecke , NSDAP district leader Lauenburg, Hermann Hansen , Mayor Husum, Walter von Medem , SA-Oberführer, Hermann Riecken , NSDAP-Mayor of Heikendorf and later district leader of Flensburg-Stadt.

Individual evidence

  1. Old office building from around 1770
  2. Bordesholm in old views
  3. Trittau Wiki
  4. Die Zeit 1948, 6
  5. picture postcard

literature

  • Uwe Danker & Sebastian Lehmann & Robert Bohm: Reichskommissariat Ostland. Crime scene and souvenir. Flensburg: Institute for Schleswig-Holstein Contemporary and Regional History, University of Flensburg and Military History Research Office, Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 373 S., 2011, ISBN 3-506-77188-4
  • Uwe Danker , Astrid Schwabe: Schleswig-Holstein and National Socialism . Wachholtz, Neumünster 2005, ISBN 3-529-02810-X
  • Kay Donke: The "heartland of the Nordic race" greets its leader. Gau foundation, ideological positions, propaganda strategies: On the early history and establishment of the NSDAP in Schleswig-Holstein , information on Schleswig-Holstein contemporary history (2008) Donke online
  • Sebastian Lehmann: "... Schleswig-Holstein ancestral relatives, farewell Friedrich Hildebrandt ..." The NSDAP in Lübeck , 2007 online
  • Sebastian Lehmann: District leader of the NSDAP in Schleswig-Holstein: résumés and rulership practice of a regional power elite. Bielefeld: Publishing house for regional history, IZRG series of publications, Volume 13, 2011, ISBN 3-89534-653-5
  • Pohl, Reinhard (1998): Reichskommissariat Ostland: Schleswig-Holstein's Colony. In: "Schleswig-Holstein and the crimes of the Wehrmacht". , Kiel: November 1998, '' Gegenwind '', Heinrich Böll Foundation, Schleswig-Holstein, pp. 10–12.

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