Hans Ummen

Hans Ummen

Hans Erich Ummen (born June 2, 1894 in Höxter ; † January 28, 1982 ibid) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

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Ummen was born in 1894 as the son of a bookseller. After attending a private school and a humanistic grammar school (up to upper secondary school) he was trained as a bookseller in Bremen . From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a war volunteer (intelligence officer) with the Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 51 , in which he was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class (1918) and the Wound Badge .

After the war, Ummen worked in his father's shop in Höxter until 1922. From 1922 to 1928 he worked in the aluminum industry in Werdohl before working in the same field in his homeland from 1928. In 1927 Ummen joined the NSDAP. In the paramilitary arm of the Nazi movement, the SA , Ummen led the SA Standard III Lenne -Bolme from 1927 to 1928 . In 1929 Ummen became a city councilor for the NSDAP in Höxter.

After the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933, Ummen became a district delegate and district deputy. In the latter capacity, he was responsible for the administration of the district office in Höxter from June to September 1933. Also in 1933 Ummen became a member of the Prussian Landtag and the Berlin Reichstag , to which he belonged from November 1933 until the end of Nazi rule in spring 1945 as a member of constituency 17 ( North Westphalia ).

In the period from September 20, 1933 to April 1934, Ummen also acted as deputy district administrator in Halle in Westphalia . In addition, there was the office of USCHLA chairman (investigation and arbitration committee) in his home district, which he remained until the end of the war. He was also an honorary judge at the People's Court. On November 9, 1938, he was appointed SA Oberführer. After the end of the war, he was interned in the Staumühle camp from April 25, 1945 to January 14, 1948 . During this internment he was sentenced to two years imprisonment by a judicial tribunal, which was compensated with internment custody. On July 6, 1948, in the course of denazification, he was classified as a minor, but on April 13, 1950, he was categorized as a follower. From 1948 he worked as a forest worker, later he worked as a bookseller in his hometown, where he died in 1982.

literature

• Wolfgang Stelbrink: The district leaders of the NSDAP in Westphalia and Lippe , 2003.
• Erich Stockhorst : 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . 2nd Edition. Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 .
• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .

Web links

• Hans Ummen in the database of members of the Reichstag