Hans-Henning from Pressentin

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Hans-Henning von Pressentin (born June 18, 1890 in Altona , † December 22, 1952 in Hamburg ) was a German military man, politician of the steel helmet and Hamburg senator .

The von Pressentin family comes from the Mecklenburg nobility, their name is traced back to the village Prestin (formerly Pressentin), today a district of the municipality of Bülow in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district . Pressentin's father was Lieutenant General Ernst von Pressentin (1853–1945).

Pressentin attended the grammar school and in 1909 joined the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Field Artillery Regiment No. 60 in Schwerin as a flag squire . At the beginning of the First World War he was a captain and served as a battalion adjudant. In November 1918 Pressentin retired, wounded several times, as Major a. D. out of the army.

When the brawn riots broke out in Hamburg , he joined the Freikorps troops under Major General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck with the aim of putting down the unrest. When the Freikorps troops reached Hamburg, calm had long since returned. In spite of this, the troops occupied the workers' residential areas and behaved as if they were in occupied enemy territory; workers and officials in particular were often arrested and mistreated on arbitrary accusations. The Freikorps made generous use of their firearms to strike down "looters and snipers". Most of the anti-republic free corps were taken over into the newly established and militarily equipped barracked Hamburg security police. In 1919, Pressentin was accepted into the Hamburg Security Police as a police leader, where he became the commander of the motor vehicle and traffic department.

During his police service he was able to catch up on his Abitur in 1921 and later study for a few semesters. In 1924 Pressentin was dismissed from the police force as a police major and took up a job in the automotive industry. Press officer was active in the Stahlhelm, became district leader in 1927 and Gauleiter for Northern Germany in 1930.

On March 8, 1933, Pressentin was elected to the Hamburg Senate under Carl Vincent Krogmann , together with Philipp Klepp , in a meeting at which the elected members of the KPD could no longer appear. Press officer was responsible for the work department. From October 1, 1933, he headed the Department of Technology and Labor ; he headed this administration for the following years, at least until 1941. Pressentin joined the NSDAP on June 24, 1933 and was also accepted into the SA at the same time . There he was appointed honorary leader with the rank of standard leader. When the Senate was reshuffled in September 1933, Pressentin resigned from the Senate. His department was subordinated to Wilhelm von Allwörden , but he was allowed to continue to hold the title of Senator.

On March 14, 1944, Pressentin was elected senior elder in the parish of Sankt Katharinen . From 1950 until his death he was also President of the College of the Elderly.

literature

  • Hamburger Fremdblatt and Hamburger Nachrichten of March 8, 1933
  • Fuhrmann, Rainer: Distribution of offices in the Senate 1860-1945, typescript, Hamburg State Archives

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In Prestin, next to the village church, there is still von Pressentin's burial chapel , which was extensively restored from 1998 to 2008 by descendants of the von Pressentin family.
  2. ↑ See GHdA , noble houses A, Volume 28 (2005), p. 236.
  3. ↑ See Hamburger Anzeiger No. 145 of June 25, 1933.
  4. ^ Herwarth von Schade: Hans-Henning von Pressentin . In: On the harmony and welfare of this good city: 475 years of the senior elders' college in Hamburg . Convent, Hamburg 2003, OCLC 53903206 , p. 408 .
personal data
SURNAME Press officer, Hans-Henning von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military, politician of the steel helmet and Hamburg senator
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1952
Place of death Hamburg