Hans Albert Hohnfeldt

Hans Albert Hohnfeldt (born May 22, 1897 in Danzig-Neufahrwasser ; dates of death not known) was Gauleiter of Danzig during the National Socialist rule.

Life

After attending the Royal High School in Danzig and Neustadt / West Prussia , he became a war volunteer in 1914 . In 1918 he began studying law and economics at the University of Berlin , but later worked as a tax and administrative officer. In 1922 he entered the civil service of the Free City of Danzig .

In 1923 he was elected to the People's Day for the German Social Party , of which he was the first chairman . In 1925 he joined the NSDAP and founded the local branch in Danzig . On March 11, 1926, he was appointed Gauleiter of the Gaues Gaues, with Wilhelm von Wnuck as deputy. In 1927 he was appointed chief tax secretary and in September of the same year SA-Gauführer "East" (consisting of East Prussia-West Prussia and Danzig). In this function, Walter Maass was his deputy. At the same time, Hohnfeldt also became Gau-SS-Führer, which went hand in hand with the appointment as SS-Standartenführer .

As early as June 20, 1928, he resigned his Gauleiter position due to illness and resigned as Gau SS leader.

In 1931 he became government inspector and head of the Nazi civil servants' department in the Gaues Gau. After he had already become a member of the Gdansk People's Day in 1928 , he became the leader of the NSDAP parliamentary group in the People's Day in 1933 and then became Senator of the Free City of Danzig. In 1934 he was appointed to the Reich leadership of the NSDAP.

On September 1, 1934, he became the head of the office for civil servants in the party chancellery in the "Brown House" in Munich. In March 1936 he was given a leave of absence as director of the DBV with immediate effect and discharged from service on June 30, 1936.

In 1939 his name reappears as Senator for Social Welfare in Gdansk, but his further fate is unknown.

literature

• Nazi apologetic: Karl Höffkes : Hitler's political generals. The Gauleiter of the 3rd Reich; a biographical reference work. Grabert-Verlag , Tübingen 1997, ISBN 3-87847-163-7 .
• Christian Rohrer: National Socialist Power in East Prussia, Martin Meidenbauer, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-89975-054-3 , p. 579.