Hartwig von Rheden

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Hartwig von Rheden (around 1938)

Hartwig von Rheden (born December 17, 1885 in Rheden , † October 19, 1957 in Göttingen ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and SA leader.

Live and act

Life until 1930

Von Rheden came from a long-established, evangelical noble family from Lower Saxony. His father was August von Rheden (1853-1907), owner of the family estate Rheden near Gronau and first chairman of the Chamber of Agriculture in Hanover . In his youth Rheden attended elementary school , then a grammar school in Goslar . He later studied agriculture at the University of Göttingen . After graduating, he managed the parental estate. Rheden spent the years 1911/12 in German East Africa .

From 1914 to 1918 Rheden took part in the First World War as an officer in the reserve with the 1st Guard Uhlan Regiment . After the war he became deputy chairman of the Chamber of Agriculture for the Province of Hanover .

Life from 1930 to 1945

On April 1, 1930, von Rheden was persuaded by his friend Werner Willikens to join the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). In the national organization of the NSDAP for the Gau Südhannover-Braunschweig he was appointed agricultural regional advisor of the NSDAP of the agricultural political apparatus in November 1931 , whereby his friendship with Richard Walther Darré , the leading agricultural politician of the NSDAP, may have played a role. He held this office until 1945.

In 1931 Hartwig von Rheden became a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), in which he had held the rank of SA storm leader since October 1, 1931. On April 20, 1936 he became SA-Standartenführer, on May 1, 1937 SA-Oberführer and finally on January 30, 1939 SA-Brigadführer.

In the Reichstag elections of March 1933 was of Rheden as a candidate of the Nazi Party for the constituency 16 (Südhannover Brunswick) in the Reichstag voted, which it initially belonged to the elections of November of that year. Then he left parliament for two and a half years. In March 1936, he returned as a representative of his old constituency in the now parliamentarily insignificant National Socialist Reichstag , to which he belonged from then on without interruption until the end of Nazi rule in May 1945. During his time as a member of parliament, Rheden participated, among other things, in the passage of the Enabling Act in March 1933, for which he stood up with his vote. In 1933 he was also a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Hanover. From July 1933 to 1945 he was the state farmer leader of the Lower Saxony State Farmers' Union (later Hanover); at the same time district manager of the office for agricultural policy in the district of Südhannover-Braunschweig as well as member of the Reichsbauernrat and deputy chairman of the land supply association Hanover

From May 1941 to December 1942, Rheden was Vice Chief of War Administration and Head of the Food and Agriculture Group at the Military Commander for Belgium and Northern France . In 1942 he was replaced by Heinrich Baxmann as the state farmer's leader in Lower Saxony . According to other sources, he remained a country leader until 1945.

He was married to the politician Hildegard von Rheden , who was also a party member and an active National Socialist. As the initiators of the Reich Harvest Thanksgiving Festival on the Bückeberg , the couple was nicknamed Blubo and Brausi (for blood & soil and customs & customs ).

Fonts

  • Peasantry and national renewal . Bund der Großdeutschen, Berlin 1927. Was placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the GDR .
  • The development of the German peasant class . Bund der Großdeutschen, Berlin 1927. Was placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the GDR.
  • Rural settlement or new formation of German peasantry? In: Odal. Monthly for Blood and Soil , Vol. 3, 1934, Issue 6, pp. 432-440.
  • “Ten Years of National Socialist Agricultural Policy”, in: National-Sozialistische Monatshefte , January 1943, pp. 43ff.

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 .
  • Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).
  • Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 294.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reichstag manual. VIII. 1933 electoral term, ed. from the office of the Reichstag, printing and publishing house of the Reichsdruckerei Berlin 1933, p. 232f.
  2. ^ Noakes, Jeremy: The Nazie Party in Lower Saxony, 1921-1933 , 1971, p. 166.
  3. ↑ Historical Journal , 2001, p. 70.
  4. ↑ Horst Kahrs: Models for a German Europe , 1992, p. 141.
  5. ^ Lilla: extras , p. 509.
  6. ↑ a b http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit-q.html
personal data
SURNAME Rheden, Hartwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rheden, Hartwig Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheden
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1957
Place of death Goettingen