Hans Bonnet (politician)

Hans Bonnet (born March 28, 1902 in Friedelsheim , † 1963 ) was a German politician of the NSDAP .

Life

Bonnet attended elementary school and then the Mennonite boarding school Weyerhof up to seventh grade. He then worked as a farmer in his parents' business. From 1920 to 1923 he studied at the Hohenheim Agricultural University . In 1923 he was expelled from his family's court by the French occupation because he turned against the separatists who wanted to merge the Palatinate with France. Bonnet then set up his own farm in Lower Bavaria , but returned to the Palatinate in 1924 . In 1927 he received his diploma as a farmer.

In 1930 Bonnet joined the NSDAP ( membership number 330.107) and became mayor of Friedelsheim. From 1932 to 1935 he was also a member of the Palatinate District Council . He joined the SA in 1932 , then switched to the SS and became a member of the NSKK , where he rose to standartenführer. After he resigned his office as mayor on February 1, 1935, he moved to Oggersheim , where he became the state farmer leader of the Palatinate. In 1936 and 1938 he was unsuccessfully proposed to the Reichstag . From 1935 he was also head of the Office for Agricultural Policy of the Gau Saarpfalz , later Saarpfalz and then Westmark.

Because he criticized the expropriation of French farmers in Alsace and Lorraine, Bonnet came into conflict with Gauleiter Josef Bürckel in 1942 , who threatened him with special court proceedings and asked Reichsbauernführer Walther Darré to dismiss him. Darré refused, but Bonnet voluntarily resigned from his position as country farmer's leader and a few months later as head of the office for agricultural policy after an ongoing dispute. In 1944 Bonnet became a peasant officer in SS Section XXXIV.

After the end of the war, Bonnet was interned by the Americans (first occupying power in the Palatinate), brought before a court and acquitted (by a Jewish judge). Afterwards, Bonnet was interned in Landau in the Palatinate from 1945 to 1949 by the French (who had replaced the Americans as the occupying power) . In the denazification process , he was acquitted in 1950.

literature

• Franz Maier: Biographical organization manual of the NSDAP and its structures in the area of ​​today's state of Rhineland-Palatinate (=  publications of the commission of the state parliament for the history of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . No. 28 ). 2nd Edition. Zarrentin v. Hase & Koehler, Mainz 2009, ISBN 978-3-7758-1408-9 , pp. 152-154 .