Hans Gronewald

Hans Gronewald

Johannes Gronewald (called Hans; born June 9, 1893 in Buisdorf , † August 9, 1972 in Osnabrück ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ). He was a member of the Reichstag , member of the Landtag and district administrator .

Life and work

Johannes Gronewald, who called himself Hans, had to leave the high school in Bonn prematurely after the death of his mother in order to complete a three-year apprenticeship as a medical druggist . After working as a traveling merchant, he became branch manager of a pharmacy in Osnabrück. From May 1915 to November 1918 he took part in the First World War as a front-line fighter in France . After the war he took up his old job again. In 1933 he was appointed to the government council of the district government in Osnabrück in the course of the Gleichschaltung . There he was employed in the areas of price regulation and food police. In 1934 Gronewald came to Leer as NSDAP district leader , and for a few months he also served as provisional district leader in Aurich . In April 1935 he became the full-time district administrator of the Aschendorf-Hümmling district , initially on a temporary basis, and finally since 1936. Here Gronewald officially held office until May 8, 1945 and presented himself to the fanatical NSDAP district leader Gerhard Buscher (1891–1971) as a moderating force. Since 1942, Gronewald was temporarily also Meppen District Administrator.

The Nazi activist was interned in Esterwegen until October 1945 , then in Fallingbostel until December 1946 . His return to Aschendorf / Ems triggered violent but futile protests. In 1949 Gronewald was a co-defendant in a trial in Osnabrück for the destruction of the Jewish prayer houses in Sögel and Werlte . After the internment was over, Gronewald was a travel agent until he retired in early 1956.

Political activity

Gronewald joined the NSDAP in 1923 or again after the lifting of the party ban on September 1, 1925. Before that, it had already been organized in the Stahlhelm . Initially the right hand of the Osnabrück NSDAP district leader Otto Marxer (1896-1942), he was appointed deputy district leader in May 1929 and in September 1930 himself leader of the NSDAP in the Osnabrück district. In November 1930 Gronewald also acted as district leader of the Wittlage district , which was soon incorporated into the Osnabrück-Land district. In April 1932, as in March 1933, Gronewald was elected to the Prussian state parliament, of which he was a member until it was dissolved. In March 1933, he also moved into the Osnabrück Citizenship Council (= city council). In November 1933, the well-known Nazi activist joined the Reichstag, which was brought into line . He lost his office as district inspector in the NSDAP in 1934. In addition, he was relegated to a hopeless list position for the "Reichstag election" of 1936, an obvious sign of his loss of importance within the party, although he was probably in the power struggle between Gauleiter Carl Röver and Osnabrück government president Bernhard Eggers got caught between the fronts.

In a roll call, Hans Gronewald was deprived of his honorary citizenship at the council meeting on April 2, 1946.

After the political ban was lifted, Gronewald ran for the German party in the Lower Saxony state election in 1955 . From April 1961 to September 1964 he was a member of the Aschendorf City Council for the German Party.

literature

• German Biographical Archive NF Microfiche No. 482, pp. 271–274.
• Herrmann AL Degener , Degeners Who is it. 10th edition 1935, Berlin 1935, p. 542.
• Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Edition for the 4th electoral term (from 1932 onwards). Edited by E. Kienast, Berlin 1932, p. 435.
• Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Edition for the 5th electoral term (from 1933 onwards). Edited by E. Kienast, Berlin 1933, p. 327.
• Wilfried Hinrichs, The Emsland press under the swastika. Self-adaptation and resistance in the Catholic milieu, in: Emsland / Bentheim. Contributions to the history of Vol. 6. Ed. Of the Emsland landscape for the districts of Emsland and Grafschaft Bentheim, Sögel 1990, pp. 7–253, pp. 103–104.
• Helmut Lensing, On the conflict between National Socialism and the Church in Emsland up to the Lingen log cabin affair in 1935, in: Emsländische Geschichte Vol. 3, Bremen 1993, pp. 125–154.
• Helmut Lensing, The National Socialist Coordination of Agriculture in the Emsland and the Grafschaft Bentheim, in: Emsländische Geschichte Vol. 4, Bremen 1994, pp. 43–123.
• Helmut Lensing, Art. Gronewald, Johannes, in: Study Society for Emsländische Regionalgeschichte (Ed.), Emsländische Geschichte Vol. 6, Dohren 1997, pp. 222–225.
• Martin Löning, The implementation of National Socialist rule in the Emsland (1933–1935), in: Emsland / Bentheim. Contributions to the history of Vol. 12. Ed. Of the Emsland landscape for the districts of Emsland and Grafschaft Bentheim, Sögel 1996, pp. 7–353.
• Michael Rademacher, Die Kreisleiter der NSDAP in Gau Weser-Ems, Marburg 2005, especially p. 409.
• Hubert Rinklake, Catholic milieu and National Socialism - traditional behavior and social upheaval in the Emsland from the end of the Empire to the Federal Republic. Diss. Phil. Göttingen 1991, pp. 186-189.
• Dieter Simon, Aschendorf in the Third Reich, in: Gerd Steinwascher (Ed.), Geschichte der Stadt Aschendorf, 173–192, pp. 182–183.
• Gerd Steinwascher (editor), Gestapo Osnabrück reports. .. Police and government reports from the Osnabrück administrative district from 1933 to 1936 (= Osnabrück historical sources and research vol. 36), Osnabrück 1995, pp. 11, 27–28, 360, 365, 383.
• Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . 2nd Edition. Arndt-Verlag, Kiel 1985, ISBN 3-88741-117-X , p. 165 .

Web links

• Hans Gronewald in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

1. ^ City of Osnabrück: honorary citizen. In: osnabrueck.de. City of Osnabrück - The Lord Mayor, accessed on June 24, 2019 .