Gustav Nietfeld-Beckmann

Gustav Nietfeld-Beckmann

Gustav Nietfeld-Beckmann (born March 9, 1896 in Bokel , † November 28, 1961 in Bersenbrück ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

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Gustav Nietfeld-Beckmann was born as the son of a farmer in Bokel near Bersenbrück in 1896. He attended elementary school until 1906 , then the Artlandgymnasium in Quakenbrück until 1912 . Then he was trained as a farmer. In 1915 he joined the Guards Foot Artillery Regiment I and took part in the First World War from May 1916 to November 1918 . After the war ended, Nietfeld-Beckmann worked as an independent farmer from 1919. His farm in Bokel was 32 hectares in size.

On March 1, 1929, Nietfeld-Beckmann joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) and immediately headed the Bersenbrück branch. His NSDAP membership number was 122,422. From November 1929 he was the only National Socialist member of the district council and district committee of the Bersenbrück district . After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, Gustav Nietfeld-Beckmann was provisional district administrator for the Bersenbrück district . In the general election in March 1933 , he was a candidate of the Nazi Party for the constituency 14 (Weser-Ems) in the Reichstag voted, of which he was subsequently to the end of the Nazi regime in May 1945th The most important parliamentary event in which Gustav Nietfeld-Beckmann was involved during his time as a member of parliament was the passage of the Enabling Act , which was also passed with his vote. In June 1935 Nietfeld-Beckmann became a member of the Reichsnährstand . There he initially acted as chairman of the German potato industry. From October 1935 to May 1937 he was chairman of the German Dairy Association (main association). From May 1937 to 1945 he was district leader of the NSDAP for Bersenbrück, a position that he had already exercised from 1932 to May 1935.

Nietfeld-Beckmann was imprisoned in the Staumühle internment camp near Paderborn from May 16, 1945 to May 5, 1948, and in the Esterwegen internment camp from May 5, 1948 to May 4, 1949. On May 5, 1949, he was released to his farm in Bokel under certain conditions.

Gustav Nietfeld-Beckmann died on November 28, 1961 at the age of 65 in Bersenbrück.

literature

• 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. 440 .
• Michael Rademacher: The district leaders of the NSDAP in the Gau Weser-Ems. Tectum Verlag, Marburg 2005, ISBN 3-8288-8848-8 .
• Michael Rademacher: Who was who in the Weser-Ems Gau. ISBN 3-8334-2909-7 .
• Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 .

Web links

• Gustav Nietfeld-Beckmann in the database of members of the Reichstag