Heinrich August Knickmann

Heinrich August Knickmann

Heinrich August Knickmann (born September 25, 1894 in Horstermark , † August 5, 1941 near Sabolotje ) was a German politician (NSDAP).

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Heinrich Knickmann attended elementary school , then high school. He was then trained at the non-commissioned school in Weißenfels in the province of Saxony and at the non-commissioned school in Weilburg in the Oberlahnkreis. Knickmann later attended the Recklinghausen Administration Academy .

In the First World War Knickmann was wounded twice. After the war he worked for a while in self-protection organizations and border associations. After training in local administration, Knickmann was employed by the Buer city administration. During the occupation of the Ruhr in 1923, Knickmann took part in acts of sabotage against the French and Belgian occupation forces. In particular, he led the action in the Emscher-Lippe area.

From 1924 Knickmann belonged to the Reichswehr as an organization officer at Military District Command VI in Münster. On August 15, 1932, Knickmann was released from the Reichswehr at his own request. Instead, he became a staff leader in the SA sub-group Westphalia North in Osnabrück .

In the 1920s, Knickmann became a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). He later became a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS).

In the Reichstag elections of July 1932 Knickmann was a candidate of his party for the constituency 17 (Westphalia North) in the Reichstag voted, which it initially belonged until November of the same year. In January 1933 Knickmann returned to parliament in the replacement procedure for the resigned Alfred Meyer , to which he belonged from then on without interruption until his death in August 1941 as a member of the constituency 18 (Westphalia South). The most important parliamentary event in which Knickmann took part was the passing of the Enabling Act in March 1933, which formed the legal basis for the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship and which, among other things, was passed with his vote. After his death, Knickmann's mandate was continued by Franz Bielefeld until the end of the war .

In 1933 Knickmann was appointed police chief of Duisburg-Hamborn . From 1937 to 1941 Knickmann led the SA Group Niederrhein.

Knickmann fell after the German attack on the Soviet Union in combat operations near Sabolotje.

literature

• 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).

Web links

• Heinrich August Knickmann in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martin Schumacher (Ed.): Md R. The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933-1945. Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5162-9 , p. 332.
2. ↑ Reichstag protocols 1932.3. Changes in the alphabetical list of the members of the Reichstag occurred during the 7th electoral term in 1932.
3. ↑ Handbook Der Großdeutsche Reichstag , 1943, p. 41.