Heinrich Dieckmann (agricultural officer)

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Heinrich Dieckmann (born July 28, 1867 in Gladbeck ; † February 19, 1941 there ) was a German farmer and politician . From 1928 to 1933 he was chairman of the Westphalian Farmers' Association .

Origin and family

Heinrich Dieckmann came from the ancient Ringeldorf farm in the Butendorf peasantry south of the village of Gladbeck . His parents were the farmer Heinrich Dieckmann and his wife Maria Katharina Frochtwinkel called Brahm. A younger brother, Franz Dieckmann was later mayor of Münster and Governor of Westphalia .

Political commitment

In November 1910 Dieckmann was first in the parish council of the Office Gladbeck chosen, but from which he retired again in November 1912th During this time he also took on the role of one of Gladbeck's poor relief workers and was awarded the Cross of Merit for War Aid in 1917 . In the first free and democratic local elections after the First World War , Dieckmann ran for seventh place on the list for the Center Party and was elected to the local council on March 2, 1919, which became a city ​​council six months later after the city charter was granted . He was a member of this for the entire electoral period up to May 4, 1924 and during this time he contributed his agricultural expertise to numerous committees.

On September 21, 1928, Heinrich Dieckmann was elected to succeed Engelbert von Kerckerinck zur Borg as chairman of the Westphalian Farmers' Association, which was very influential at the time, particularly in rural Catholic circles. Under his leadership, the strongly conservative orientation of the Westphalian Farmers' Association, which had been one of the most important bearers of the right wing of the Center Party during the Weimar period, was continued.

After the seizure of power of the Nazis in January 1933 Dieckmann settled and the peasant association in the DC circuit policy of integrated Nazi government. Specifically, he supported Walther Darré , who was appointed Reich Minister of Agriculture in June 1933, in bringing the German farmers and their professional interest groups together under the umbrella of a single, strictly hierarchical and vertical organization, the Reichsnährstand . In particular, Dieckmann was involved in the propaganda campaign with which the National Socialists tried to convince the public to bring the farmers' association (and other professional interest groups in the agricultural sector) into line.

For example, a public announcement by Dieckmann has been handed down that bringing the peasant class into line under the National Socialists represented the "completion of what Baron von Schorlemer-Alst had aimed at with the establishment of the Westphalian Farmers' Association", "namely the consolidation and activation of the whole peasant profession in the uniform form of the public corporation of the German peasant class ”. Elsewhere he explained that it would correspond to the spirit of Schorlemer if the farmers or the farmers' association "unconditionally, but out of the deepest ardor of faith, surrender to the National Socialism of Adolf Hitler and, as real farmers, serve this National Socialism with total devotion."

Awards (selection)

Critical assessment

The historian Gisbert Strotdrees , who examined Dieckmann's statements for their historical viability, comes to the conclusion that they could only have been made out of conscious insincerity or out of ideological delusion, since the actual political-social programs of Schorlemer-Alst were juxtaposed and the National Socialists practically no agreement could be found, in fact the Christian-conservative principles propagated by Schorlemer (self-help, self-responsibility, independence) had run counter to the National Socialist demand for unconditional subordination and allegiance.

literature

  • Ralph Eberhard Brachthäuser: With passion for our city. The women and men of the first Gladbeck city council , Verlag Mainz, Aachen 2019, ISBN 978-3-8107-0308-8 , p. 108 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Burkhard Theine: Westphalian agriculture in the Weimar Republic: economic situation, forms of production and politics of interests , 1991, p. 125.
  2. ↑ Ralph Eberhard Brachthäuser: With passion for our city. The women and men of the first Gladbeck city council , Verlag Mainz, Aachen 2019, ISBN 978-3-8107-0308-8 , p. 109.
  3. ^ Gisbert Strotdrees: Höfe, Bauern, Hunger Years. From the history of Westphalian agriculture 1890-1950 , p. 137.
personal data
SURNAME Dieckmann, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Gladbeck
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1941
Place of death Gladbeck