Georg Weidenhöfer

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Georg Weidenhöfer

Georg Weidenhöfer (born January 13, 1882 in Zeven , Hanover province , † December 15, 1956 in Achim ) was a German monastery leaseholder , court owner and National Socialist politician .

Life

After attending the elementary school in Zeven, the middle school in Achim and the agricultural school in Rotenburg, Weidenhöfer was an agricultural administrator and inspector on estates in Thuringia , Pomerania and East Prussia . From 1907 to 1915 he ran a family-owned farm near Achim. Then he was the monastery landlord in Sittensen Castle until 1933.

Weidenhöfer distinguished himself as an agricultural politician. He was a member of the Chamber of Agriculture and from 1925 to 1932 of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Hanover , member of the board of the Hanoverian Land Association, chairman of the Land Association in the Zeven district and a member of the Zeven district council and district deputy. In May 1924 Weidenhöfer entered the Reichstag for the National Socialist Freedom Party (later the Völkische Arbeitsgemeinschaft ) (constituency 16 - South Hanover-Braunschweig). He held the mandate in the second and third electoral terms until May 1928.

After a personal consultation with Adolf Hitler , Weidenhöfer joined the NSDAP on April 1, 1929 ( membership number 121.760). In his function as agricultural adviser to the NSDAP, Weidenhöfer played an important role in the expansion of the party in the Stade administrative region . From April 1930 to September 1933 he was deputy NSDAP Gauleiter for East Hanover . From 1931 he was also a member of the full board of the Hanover State Federation, where he had decisively promoted the opening of the Federation to NSDAP members. In April 1932 he entered the Prussian state parliament for the NSDAP , but resigned the state parliament mandate shortly after his re-election to the Reichstag in July 1932 (constituency 15 - East Hanover). He was a member of the Reichstag from the sixth to the eighth electoral term .

After the National Socialist " seizure of power ", Weidenhöfer was not proposed again for the Reichstag in November 1933. Around 1936 he was authorized to wear the uniform of a deputy Gauleiter with the badge for those who had left. From 1933 to 1945 Weidenhöfer was head of the Stade Electricity Association and general director of Überland AG Hanover. Around 1940 he was President of the Verden Chamber of Commerce and Industry , and later a member of the board of the local Chamber of Commerce . In 1944 he was a member of the People's Court .

At the end of the war, Weidenhöfer was captured and interned until the end of 1947 , first at Fallingbostel and later in Rotenburg. In the denazification on September 19, 1949, he was classified in category III ("minor offenders").

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 .
  • Henning Müller: Georg Weidenhöfer. In: Jan Lokers, Heike Schlichting (Ed.): Life courses between the Elbe and Weser. A biographical lexicon , Vol. II, Landscape Association of the Former Duchies of Bremen and Verden, Stade 2010, ISBN 978-3-931879-46-4 , pp. 333–338.
  • Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Daniela Münkel : National Socialist Agricultural Policy and Everyday Farmers' Life. Frankfurt a. M. and New York 1996, ISBN 3-593-35602-3 , p. 72.
personal data
SURNAME Weidenhöfer, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSFP, NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Zeven
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1956
Place of death Achim