Heinrich Blume (politician)

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Heinrich Blume

Heinrich Blume (born January 25, 1887 in Hameln , † July 26, 1964 in Hanover ) was a German teacher and national-socialist politician.

Life

After attending the middle school in Goslar from 1893 to 1901 and the preparatory institute in Einbeck from 1901 to 1904 as well as the seminar in Northeim from 1904 to 1907, Blume was a teacher in Kerstlingerode (today part of Gleichen ) in the district of Göttingen , in 1907/08 in German schools in Copenhagen and from 1910 to 1919 in Niederscheden ( district of Münden ) and Dassel . In 1914 he passed the high school teacher examination in science. In the same year he volunteered as a war volunteer and was wounded at Langemark in 1915 . In 1916 he passed the rector's examination and finally became rector in Melsungen .

In the 1920s, Blume joined the NSDAP and the SA .

In the Reichstag election in May 1924 , Blume was elected to the Reichstag for constituency 19 (Hessen-Nassau) , where he represented the National Socialist Freedom Party in the second electoral term . At this time he was already active in the Deutschbund , whose organ, the Deutschbundblätter , he published. He had also published essays in the journal Pädagogischen Warte .

As a völkisch politician, Blume showed himself to be radically anti-Semitic in public. His name can be found in an appeal from 1925 in which the abolition of equal rights for Jews and their position under the law on aliens "[b] is for their complete elimination from the civilized peoples", the prohibition of the Jewish cult (on the grounds that that this "under the guise of religious customs in truth cultivates immoral and anti-state efforts"), the closure of the synagogues and the confiscation and destruction of rabbinic writings are demanded. Other signatories of the appeal included a. Marie Diers , Artur Dinter , Anton Drexler , Theodor Fritsch , Rudolf John Gorsleben , Wilhelm Henning , Max Maurenbrecher , Ernst Graf zu Reventlow , Edith Salburg , Otto Schmidt-Gibichenfels and Theodor Vahlen .

In his influential position in the Deutschbund, Blume ensured the connection of the German Art Society , which he chaired in 1927 together with Eugen Friedrich Hopf . In this function he sponsored the founder Bettina Feistel-Rohmeder (1873–1953) and persuaded Emil Kirdorf to make donations for a society exhibition in Lübeck.

In May 1929, Blume was elected deputy federal director of the German Confederation ( Max Robert Gerstenhauer also became federal director for life).

After the National Socialist " seizure of power ", Blume acted as a cultural advisor in the NSDAP Gau Hessen-Nassau and was appointed by Dietrich Klagges to the civil service at the Ministry of Education. He was also an editor for the Nazi art magazine Das Bild .

After the end of the war, Blume's books The Political Face of Freemasonry (1936) and So became the Empire. German History for the Young (1940) placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet Zone .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Date of death according to Katharina Lübbe and Martin Schumacher: MdR, the members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism: political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933 - 1945; a biographical documentation. Droste, Düsseldorf 1991, p. 128. ISBN 3-7700-5162-9 .
  2. ↑ In the Reichstag Handbuch (Vol .: 1924, 2nd electoral period 1924, Berlin, 1924, page 386) the (even then) wrong name Hann.-Münden is used as the name of the district .
  3. ↑ Joan L. Clinefelter: Artists for the Empire: Culture and Race from Weimar to Nazi Germany . Berg, Oxford / New York 2005, p. 135. ISBN 1-84520-201-5 .
  4. ↑ Subtitle: Confidential messages for our members , Editing: Federal Chancellor Brother Rector Heinr. Flower in Melsungen
  5. ↑ Hans Gathmann: "Hermannssöhne", in: Die Weltbühne , 21. Jg., No. 15, April 14, 1925, p. 560f.
  6. ↑ Clinefelter 2005, pp. 22, 31, 53 et passim.
  7. ↑ Bettina Irina Reimers: The New Direction of Adult Education in Thuringia 1919 to 1933 . University of Tübingen, 2000, p. 152.
  8. ↑ Clinefelter 2005, pp. 55, 67, 70, 78.
  9. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-b.html
personal data
SURNAME Blume, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teachers and politicians (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamelin
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1964
Place of death Hanover