Hans millet grain

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Hans Bruno Karl Hirsekorn (born March 17, 1887 in Nipnow , Western Pomerania ; † May 5, 1960 in Cape Town , South Africa ) was a German lawyer, notary and politician.

Life

Hirsekorn's parents were the manor owner Ernst Hirsekorn and his wife Marie nee. Baroness of Lynker. Hans Hirsekorn studied law at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen and became a member of the Corps Suevia Tübingen in 1908 . In 1913 he was promoted to Dr. iur. PhD . In the same year, his application to be assigned to the District Court of Windhoek in German South West Africa was granted . He bought a farm and settled in Lüderitz as a lawyer. In the First World War in South West Africa he fought in the protection force for German South West Africa against the troops of the South African Union .

After the finished war in South West Africa as farmers dispossessed , he opened in 1935 a capital office in Windhoek . He was one of the founders of the DBSWA ( German Federation for South West Africa ), was a member of the legislative assembly ( South West Africa Legislative Assembly ) and one of the politically active representatives of the German minority. In 1937 he founded the German Southwest Federation , of which he was chairman.

Although he was never a member of the NSDAP , he was one of the first Germans to be interned on September 18, 1939 and detained in Windhoek (in the former radio station). There he was the first camp leader. In 1940 he was taken to the Andalusia internment camp in South Africa . There he was replaced by Adolf Gutknecht . In July 1946 he was released after seven years. He gave up the firm and the farm and moved to Cape Town .

Shortly after his 73rd birthday, he died in his home in the Claremont district of Cape Town . The South African Senator Karl Frey gave the eulogy . Millet grain left behind his wife and two children.

Works

  • Considerations on the international legal mandate and the administration of South West Africa as a mandate country of the South African Union . Lecture, Lüderitzbucht March 23, 1928.
  • On the question of naturalization , 1930. GoogleBooks

literature

  • Golf Dornseif: Nazi propaganda among Africa-Germans 1933 to 1939 . Online version (PDF; 1.5 MB).
  • Martin Eberhardt: Between National Socialism and Apartheid. The German population group in South West Africa 1915–1965 (dissertation 2005). Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-8258-0225-7 . Online version

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Archives Corps Suevia Tübingen
  2. ↑ 001538 klausdierks.com
  3. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 130/679
  4. ↑ Dissertation: Self-help sales in commercial law . GoogleBooks
  5. ^ Entry in loss list number 12 of the Imperial Protection Troops
  6. ↑ 24.06. klausdierks.com
  7. ↑ Lüderitzbuchter Zeitung of September 28, 1923 archive.org
  8. ^ Between National Socialism and Apartheid: The German Population Group of South West Africa 1915-1965 ; 2007; Martin Eberhardt; ISBN 978-3825802257
  9. ↑ M. Eberhardt
  10. ↑ Buried under the Southern Cross ( Memento from June 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) deutsche-rundschau.com
  11. ↑ Phokwane Local Municipality Local Municipality: Jan Kempdorp . on www.phokwane.gov.za (English)
personal data
SURNAME Millet grain, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Millet grain, Hans Bruno Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, notary and politician in South West Africa
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Nipnow , Western Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH May 5th 1960
Place of death Cape Town , South Africa