Gustav Seifert

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Gustav Seifert (* April 1885 in the Ore Mountains ; † after 1933 ) was a German carpenter or baker, National Socialist local politician and founder of the Hanover branch of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP).

Life

Gustav Seifert grew up in the founding years of the German Empire as the son of a miner. After an apprenticeship as a carpenter, he worked as a teenager in the imperial military from 1903 to 1908.

In his youth, Gustav Seifert initially confessed to being a social democrat .

In 1909 Gustav Seifert was given a position in Hanover, initially as an auxiliary policeman , and from 1913 as a policeman.

During the First World War , Seifert served as a soldier from 1915 to 1918 and was deployed as a field policeman in Warsaw , where he got to know the people and customs of Eastern Jewry .

After the war, Seifert went to Hanover and got a job at the rubber manufacturer Continental AG . Also at the beginning of the Weimar Republic , Seifert joined the anti - Semitic German Socialist Party , and in 1920 the Association of the German National Guard and Defense Association . After joining the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) in 1921, he founded the Hanover branch of the NSDAP together with the businessman Bruno Wenzel on July 2 of the same year. It was the first NSDAP to be established in what would later become the state of Lower Saxony , the ninth outside of Bavaria and the twenty-fifth in general. The establishment took place in Oeles Bierlokal at Adolfstraße 18 ; two weeks later 10 men and 3 women signed the statutes and elected Seifert as party chairman and Bruno Wenzel as his deputy. Both kept in close contact with the party headquarters in Munich .

Although a party ban against the NSDAP had already been imposed in Prussia in autumn 1922, a total of 230 paying members were registered in the Hanoverian local group at the end of 1922, and 321 paying members in May 1923. The head of the local group was Seifert, who also founded the magazine North German Observer . In 1923 he had to leave Hanover for professional reasons, which benefited Bernhard Rust , who was then a teacher at the Ratsgymnasium and later Minister of Education. After his return to Hanover, Seifert complained in the summer of 1925 to the publisher of the Völkischer Beobachter , Max Amann , who, however, in his reply by letter recommended that the most competent fighter be asserted himself.

In the local election held at the same time as the Reichstag election on May 4, 1924 , the Völkisch-Sozial Block (VSB) received 9,123 votes and thus 3.9 percent. As a result, the VSB was able to send three mayors to the Hanover Board of Citizens, in addition to Gustav Seifert, Bernhard Rust.

Fonts (selection)

  • The National Socialist Movement 1921-1924. Establishment of the Hanover branch, history of the first SA. Hanover's decisive battle in Lower Saxony , Hanover: Printing by Schlüterschen Buchdruckerei, [1932 or 1933]
  • Loyalty is the marrow of honor! Beginning and development of the first North German struggles of the NSDAP in Hanover and Lower Saxony , 66 pages, Hanover: Self-published Gustav Seifert, 1933

literature

  • Tobias Bünemann: "So I asked for and received permission to found a local branch of the NSDAP in Hanover ..." The development of the Hanover NSDAP from its foundation to 1933 . In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Episode 67 (2013)

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e o.V. : Seifert, Gustav in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of January 17, 2014, last accessed on April 5, 2017
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Georg Franz-Willing : Crisis year of the Hitler movement 1923 , 1st edition, Preussisch Oldendorf: R. v. Decker's Verlag G. Schenck, 1975, ISBN 3-87725-078-5 , pp. 204f .; Preview over google books
  3. ↑ a b c d Klaus Mlynek : Beginnings and Rise of the NSDAP , in Klaus Mlynek and Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.): History of the City of Hanover , Vol. 2: From the beginning of the 19th century to the present , Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei, 1994, ISBN 3-87706-364-0 , pp. 455–459; here: p. 455; Preview over google books
  4. ↑ a b c Klaus Mlynek : National Socialism in H. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 461ff .; Preview over google books
  5. ^ A b Peter Hüttenberger : The Gauleiter. Study on the change of the structure of power in the NSDAP (= series of the quarterly books for contemporary history , volume 19), digital original edition, Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter - De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 1969, ISBN 978-3-486-70364-1 and ISBN 3- 486-70364-1 , p. 20; Preview over google books
personal data
SURNAME Seifert, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician, founder of a Nazi magazine and local NSDAP group
DATE OF BIRTH April 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Ore Mountains
DATE OF DEATH 20th century