Heinrich Haake

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Heinrich Haake

Heinrich (also: Heinz) Haake (born January 24, 1892 in Cologne ; † September 17, 1945 in Velen ) was a Gauleiter of the NSDAP .

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The son of a city architect attended elementary school and grammar school, was active in the youth movement and was a bird guide . Professionally, he was initially a bank clerk.

In 1914 he took part in the First World War as a war volunteer . In Langemarck in Belgium he was severely wounded and was in a row as heavy war damage. In 1919 he returned to Cologne. In 1920 he joined the German-Völkische Unity Party and at about the same time the German-Völkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund . In 1922 he became a member of the NSDAP, which was temporarily banned in 1924. He then switched to the National Socialist Freedom Movement (NF), whose only member of the state parliament he became on December 7, 1924.

With the re-establishment of the NSDAP in 1925, Haake was first local group leader in Cologne and on March 27, 1925 Gauleiter in the Rhineland-South district . However, Gregor Strasser had already appointed Haake Gau leader in the Cologne-Aachen Gau on February 22, 1925 . In the same year his Gauleiter activity ended again, because he submitted his resignation due to health problems.

In 1932 Haake was appointed State Inspector West and head of the NSDAP's organization office in Munich. In 1933 he was elected First Vice President of the Prussian State Parliament and appointed Governor of the Rhine Province to succeed Johannes Horion . As such, he awarded the Rhenish Literature Prize from 1935 to 1943 . In 1934 he became Reich Inspector of the NSDAP. From November 1933 until the end of the National Socialist regime in 1945, he was a member of the functionless Reichstag for constituency 20 (Cologne-Aachen).

This was followed in 1934 by other honorary posts such as chairman of the Rhenish Association for the Preservation of Monuments and Heritage Protection , Reich Inspector at the Reich leadership of the NSDAP , member of the board of the German Municipal Association , honorary senator of the University of Cologne or honorary citizen of the TH Aachen . With an article in the magazine Die Rheinprovinz he proved himself to be a supporter of the National Socialist racial hygiene : “In the National Socialist state one cannot watch with a lazy heart how the ideal and material burden of mental health care is growing”.

Haake was also involved in the spatial planning policy of the Nazi state. He wrote in his capacity as deputy chairman of the State Planning Community Rhineland the foreword to the study planning by agricultural resettlement in the Rhine Province (Leipzig 1943) (s. Also the Reich Association for Space Research , Wilhelm Busch , Norbert Ley , Ludwig Neundörfer )

In 1935 Haake was appointed a full member of the Archaeological Institute of the German Empire .

From 1942 to 1945. Haake was as Reich hiking Chairman of the National Union of German mountain and hiking clubs . As the personally elected chairman, Wilhelm Götz stood by his side as the association's executive chairman.

In 1943 he was promoted to SA group leader. In 1945 he was taken prisoner by the British. Interned in Recklinghausen , he was transferred from there to the prison hospital at Velen Castle, where he died that same year.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uwe Lohalm: Völkischer Radikalismus: The history of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutz-Bund. 1919-1923 . Leibniz-Verlag, Hamburg 1970, ISBN 3-87473-000-X , p. 319.
  2. ^ Quotation from Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 213.
  3. ↑ Uta Halle: "The Externsteine ​​are Germanic until further notice" . Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2002, p. 375f.
  4. ^ Deutscher Wanderverband (Ed.): "125 years of hiking and more", Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86568-221-5 , p. 171
  5. ^ Deutscher Wanderverband (Ed.): "125 years of hiking and more", Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86568-221-5 , p. 170

literature

  • Nazi apologetic: Karl Höffkes : Hitler's political generals. The Gauleiter of the 3rd Reich; a biographical reference work. Grabert-Verlag , Tübingen 1997, ISBN 3-87847-163-7
  • Horst Romeyk: Heinrich Haake (1892-1945). In: Franz-Josef Heyen Hg .: Lebensbilder Rheinische. No. 17, 1997, pp. 187-222
  • Erich Stockhorst : 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . 2nd Edition. Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 .
  • Peter Sandner: Administration of the murder of the sick. The Nassau District Association under National Socialism , Psychosocial, Gießen 2003 ISBN 978-3-89806-320-3 Summary (PDF; 1.1 MB)
  • Jürgen John, Horst Möller, Thomas Schaarschmidt Ed .: Die NS-Gaue. Regional middle authorities in the centralized "leadership state"? Oldenbourg, Munich 2007 ISBN 3486580868 (Haake passim. Online at google books u. A. )
  • Burkhard Dietz, Helmut Gabel, Ulrich Tiedau Eds .: Reach for the West. The "West Research" of the ethnic-national sciences on the north-western European area 1919-1960. Series: Studies on the history and culture of Northwest Europe 6. Waxmann, Münster 2003 ISBN 9783830911449 (Haake passim, online at google books u. A.)

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personal data
SURNAME Haake, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haake, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR, Gauleiter
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1945
Place of death Recklinghausen