Hans Egon Engell

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hans Egon Theodor Otto Martin Engell , also Hans-Egon Engell (born November 15, 1897 in Selmsdorf , † August 16, 1974 in Bad Salzdetfurth ) was a German farmer and politician . During the time of National Socialism he was a member of the NSDAP and a member of the SS , state minister and from 1933 to 1934 Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg . From 1953 to 1957 he was a member of the Bundestag for the all-German bloc / federation of expellees and disenfranchised .

Life

Family, military service, studies

Hans Egon Engell was born as the son of the domain tenant Hans Engell on Hof Selmsdorf near Schönberg (Mecklenburg). After home schooling on his father's property in Pomerania , he attended the Goethe grammar school in Berlin until Easter 1910 , then the grammar school in Rostock , where his mother had moved with him. In 1914, when the First World War broke out, the 16-year-old volunteered for the 2nd Mecklenburg Dragoon Regiment No. 18 . At the end of September 1915 he was captured by Russia in the Battle of Vilna , which ended in spring 1918 due to the Russian Civil War . After that he was a soldier again until February 1919, most recently as a private .

In 1919 Engell graduated from the Leibniz Gymnasium in Berlin and began studying political science at the universities in Berlin , Leipzig and Munich , which he broke off. From April 1921 he managed the Granzow estate near Gnoien . He married Hilda Luise Doris Adeneuer (1894–1940), who was born in Cologne.

Political functions in the time of National Socialism

Hans Engell Egon joined on 1 February 1931 in the NSDAP ( membership number 457918) and acted as Gauredner and deputy agricultural Gauberater the party. With the start of his NSDAP party activity, he gave up his activity as a farmer. In November 1931 he became the official representative and deputy governor of the Malchin office . In 1932 he was elected to the state parliament of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , to which he was a member until 1933. Here he became deputy chairman of the NSDAP parliamentary group. He was also a lecturer at the driving and training school of the Gaus Mecklenburg-Lübeck .

Since the National Socialist Cabinet Granzow I took office , he was a member of the Settlement Office in the Ministry of Agriculture, Domains and Forests. In May 1933 Engell became State Councilor and from June 26, 1933 Minister for Agriculture, Domains and Forests in the government of the state of Mecklenburg-Schwerin led by Prime Minister Walter Granzow . On August 10, 1933, he was appointed Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Schwerin by the Reich Governor Friedrich Hildebrandt .

In November 1933, Engell became a member of the SS (membership number 251,075). The leader of the SS Upper Section North, Curt Wittje , had supported Heinrich Himmler in relation to Engell's proposal in order to strengthen the position of the SS, who were weak in Mecklenburg, in relation to the SA . In December 1933 he was appointed SS Standartenführer .

After the union with Mecklenburg-Strelitz , Engell was Prime Minister of Mecklenburg from January 1, 1934. At the same time he headed the ministries for foreign affairs, agriculture and education. On April 20, 1934, he was made an honorary SS-Oberführer , for which Engell showed his gratitude with generous monetary donations from the disposition fund to the SS. P. 126 No. 198

On October 24, 1934, after quarrels with the party in connection with the Röhm Putsch , Engell asked for his dismissal from office as Prime Minister, which the Reich Governor signed on the same day, and withdrew to his estate in Granzow . In November 1936 a party expulsion process began against him. He was on leave from the SS service. Himmler declared that he placed "no value on SS-Oberführer Engell's continued membership in the SS".

From 1937 to 1938 proceedings before the Gaugericht followed, in which an investigation was made due to errors in the travel expense accounting, the opaque use of the disposition fund and an alleged involvement in the Röhm affair. In June 1939 Engell was dismissed from the SS for “lack of interest”. The party exclusion process was suspended from September 1939. Engell remained a party member until 1945.

After 1945: expellee politicians

Engell was expropriated in October 1945 and expelled from the Soviet Occupation Zone (SBZ). As a displaced person, he moved to West Germany and settled in Lower Saxony. In 1946 he founded the "Interest Group for Expellees" in the Hildesheim district . Engell worked as an employee at the equalization office . From 1949 to 1953 he worked as a settlement officer at the trust agency for refugee settlements in Hildesheim .

In 1949 Engell applied unsuccessfully as an independent candidate in the 1st federal election . In 1950 he joined the GB / BHE. Engell was a member of the district council of the Hildesheim-Marienburg district from 1952 to 1968 and was temporarily deputy district administrator there . In the Bundestag election in 1953 he was elected to the German Bundestag , to which he belonged until 1957. From January 1, 1956 to 1957, he was deputy chairman of the Bundestag committee for internal administration .

In 1956, Der Spiegel criticized Engell's return as a politician:

It was more than an ironic arabesque that among the dozen democratic guardians of the Grail who discussed “Measures against neo-Nazi currents” in the office of the parliamentary president, there was a very silent man ... Hans-Egon Engell, in the official Bundestag manual simply as “an employee " expelled. His presence made it clear how difficult it will be to realize the Democrats' plan to eliminate former National Socialists from the leadership of the Federal Republic.

Engell's BHE party comrade Linus Kather , on the other hand, praised him in the same year as “an upright democrat and freedom-loving man”. In 1957 the BHE failed because of the five percent hurdle and Engell lost his parliamentary mandate. He later worked as a "representative of the interests of the compensation fund" at the Hildesheim tax office. He then worked for a few years as an employee at the Hildesheim district settlement company.

Engell was married to Christa Murr a second time . He had four children.

literature

  • Helge bei der Wieden: The Mecklenburg governments and ministers. 1918–1952 (= writings on Mecklenburg history, culture and regional studies. Vol. 1). 2nd, supplemented edition. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1978, ISBN 3-412-05578-6 .
  • Michael Buddrus , Sigrid Fritzlar: State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871–1952. A biographical lexicon. 1st edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8378-4044-5 .
  • Michael Buddrus, Sigrid Fritzlar: The professors of the University of Rostock in the Third Reich. A biographical lexicon Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-11775-6 .
  • Michael Buddrus, Sigrid Fritzlar: State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871-1952 . A biographical lexicon. 1st edition. Edition Temmen , Bremen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8378-4044-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d The new Mecklenburg Prime Minister. In: Hamburger Nachrichten No. 372 v. August 11, 1933 (facsimile in the HWWA ).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Michael Buddrus, Sigrid Fritzlar: The professors of the University of Rostock in the Third Reich. Munich 2007, p. 459 f.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Helge bei der Wieden: The Mecklenburg governments and ministers. 1918–1952 (= writings on Mecklenburg history, culture and regional studies. Vol. 1). 2nd, supplemented edition. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1978, pp. 15 f., 43 f.
  4. ↑ State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871-1952, pages 126/197
  5. ↑ State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871–1952, pp. 125 ff ./196.
  6. ↑ There was never a return to the SS under his old membership number and use as an artillery battery chief . In a letter from the SS Personnel Office dated October 21, 1941, it was established that this alleged process was a mix-up on the part of the SS Personnel Office. The former SS-Oberführer Fritz-Karl Engel (SS membership number 2400) was re-accepted as SS-Hauptsturmführer ; see. Short biography in the cabinet minutes of the federal government
  7. ^ Official handbook of the German Bundestag - 2nd electoral period. Darmstadt 1954, p. 223.
  8. ^ National Socialists. Schröder is too lax. In: Der Spiegel No. 8 v. February 22, 1956, p. 14 f. (accessed on August 28, 2013).
personal data
SURNAME Engell, Hans Egon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engell, Hans Egon Theodor Otto Martin (full name); Engell, Hans-Egon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German farmer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Selmsdorf
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1974
Place of death Bad Salzdetfurth