Georg Dechant (politician, 1893)

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Georg Dechant (born April 7, 1893 in Solnhofen , † November 24, 1978 in Nuremberg ) was a German first lieutenant, politician ( NSDAP ) and SA leader .

Life

Dechant, a teacher by profession, took part in the First World War from 1914 to 1918 . After the end of the war he belonged to the Epp Freikorps and was discharged from the army in December 1919. In 1920 he joined the military association Reichsflagge , for which he worked full-time from 1923 to 1927 as a district leader and speaker in Franconia . After the Reichsflagge was incorporated into the steel helmet , he acted as the national leader in Franconia for this organization from 1927 to 1933.

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he moved from the Stahlhelm to the SA in 1933 and held leading positions within the SA Group Franconia during the Nazi era : From the beginning of November 1933 to the end of February 1934, Dean was district leader of the Franconian regional association of SA Reserve I. and then headed the SA Reserve I Brigade Franconia. From April 20, 1935 he was Oberführer in the SA Group Franconia and from the beginning of January 1937 to the end of January 1942 there staff leader. After he was promoted to SA group leader in the SA on January 30, 1942, he headed the SA group in Franconia until the end of the war. From October 1944 he was also Gaustabsführer of the Volkssturm in Franconia. Part-time he was a functionary of the German Labor Front (DAF).

Dechant joined the National Socialist Reichstag on February 26, 1944 in the replacement procedure for the deceased MP Hanns Günther von Obernitz , in which he represented constituency 26 (Franconia) until the end of the Nazi regime in the spring.

literature

  • 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 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Mück: Nazi stronghold in Middle Franconia: The völkisch awakening in Neustadt an der Aisch 1922–1933. Verlag Philipp Schmidt, 2016 (= Streiflichter from home history. Special volume 4); ISBN 978-3-87707-990-4 , pp. 61-63 and 114.
personal data
SURNAME Dean, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR and SA leader
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Solnhofen
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1978
Place of death Nuremberg