Hans Dietrich (politician)

Hans Dietrich

Hans Dietrich (born September 19, 1898 in Seugast , † April 11, 1945 in Donauwörth ) was a German teacher and National Socialist politician.

Life

Dietrich attended primary school in Pfreimd from 1904 to 1909 , the old grammar school in Regensburg from 1909 to 1916, and the old grammar school in Würzburg from 1916 to 1918 . In 1916 he joined the 9th Bavarian Infantry Regiment as a flag boy and was seriously wounded in Flanders on June 3, 1917, which is why his right thigh had to be amputated. In May 1918 he was discharged from the army as a non-commissioned officer . He received the Iron Cross II. Class and the Wound Badge (black or silver).

In 1918/19 Dietrich studied in Würzburg and Erlangen, and in 1919/20 he attended the teacher training college in Bayreuth . In 1920 he worked as a substitute teacher in Forchheim and from 1921 to 1924 as an auxiliary teacher in Coburg . From 1923 to 1925 he studied again in Erlangen.

Since 1919 Dietrich was active in the nationalist movement . From April to June 1919 he was a free corps fighter in the 3rd Bavarian Infantry Regiment No. 45 and the Dittmar Volunteer Battalion in Würzburg. From 1920 to 1922 he was Gauwart and from 1922 Gauleiter of the German-Völkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund in Northern Bavaria. In this capacity, he told a 600-man NSDAP delegation a discount on the participation fee on the German Day of 14./15. October on the condition that Adolf Hitler personally come to Coburg. In the spring of 1923 Dietrich joined the NSDAP for the first time. In 1923/24 Dietrich was Komtur of the Ballei Franken of the Young German Order and during the same period of time was the editor of the Coburger Warte . During the Hitler putsch in November 1923, Dietrich served as head of propaganda on the staff of the Young German regiment on the Thuringian-Franconian border in Coburg. During this time, a coalition of the SPD and KPD ruled Thuringia for a short time .

After the NSDAP was banned, Dietrich moved to the Reichstag in 1924 for the National Socialist Freedom Party (constituency CHF 26). He held his mandate in the Reichstag in the following electoral term . At the end of 1924 he founded the Gau Franken of the "Bund Völkischer Lehrer Deutschlands", founded in September of that year. After the re-establishment of the NSDAP, he rejoined it on June 24, 1925 ( membership number 8454).

From 1924 to 1928 Dietrich was also the editor-in-chief of several Nazi battle papers, including from August 1924 the völkisch daily newspaper Coburger Warte , from September 1926 to May 1927 on behalf of the imprisoned Julius Streichers (also as editor) of the anti-Semitic Stürmers , 1927 of the Erlanger weekly newspaper Die Torch for Law and Freedom , from July of its own weekly newspaper Die Flamme and from February 1928 of the weekly papers Eisenhammer and Rheinischer Volksruf . After leaving the Reichstag and losing his parliamentary immunity , Dietrich was charged several times for his journalistic activities and received around 40 fines, prison and disciplinary sentences up to 1933, which is why the government of Upper Franconia caused Dietrich to hand over his newspapers there these are incompatible with his profession as a teacher, which he had taken up again. As a result of these undertakings, he remained heavily in debt and subsequently no longer played a prominent role in the NSDAP.

In 1929 Dietrich was involved in the election success of the NSDAP in Coburg, when an absolute majority was achieved for the first time in a city. He later became a city councilor and chairman of the city council faction.

The SS came Dietrich in 1930 (membership number 3397). Promoted several times, he reached the rank of SS-Standartenführer on April 20, 1935. From autumn 1930 he was assigned to the staff of the Reichsführer of the SS , Himmler , where he was responsible for questions relating to war invalids until March 1936. In 1932 Dietrich became a member of the Bavarian State Parliament ( district of Bayreuth) and head of the National Socialist Reichstag and Landtag members of the Bavarian Ostmark district . Because he appeared in party uniform at the plenary session of June 17, 1932, he was, like 36 other NSDAP members, expelled from the room and then excluded for the next eight days, then for the next 20 days.

In November 1933 he entered the National Socialist Reichstag . In the same year he became city school clerk in Coburg, then head teacher in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse . In 1933/34 he was regional chairman of the National Socialist War Victims Supply (NSKOV) in Bavaria, from July 1937 until the end of the war he was NSKOV regional chairman in Gau Saarpfalz .

Dietrich had been suffering from open pulmonary tuberculosis since 1941 . He died in April 1945 in an air raid on Donauwörth. During the denazification in April 1955, 20 percent of his estate in Bavaria was confiscated because he would have been classified in the group of the polluted during his lifetime.

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. 102 .
• Franz Maier: Biographical organization manual of the NSDAP and its divisions in the area of ​​today's state of Rhineland-Palatinate . (= Publications of the Parliament's Commission for the History of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate , Volume 28) Hase & Koehler, Mainz 2007, ISBN 3-7758-1407-8 , pp. 185–188.

Web links

• Hans Dietrich in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Entry on Hans Dietrich in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
• Hans Dietrich in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Joachim Albrecht: " German Day, Coburg, October 14/15, 1922 ", in: Historisches Lexikon Bayerns .
2. ^ Rainer Hambrecht: The rise of the NSDAP in Middle and Upper Franconia (1925–1933). Nuremberg City Archives, Nuremberg 1976, p. 482. ISBN 3-87432-039-1 .
3. ↑ Hambrecht 1976, pp. 138, 469f.