Heinrich Hacker

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Elias Gustav Heinrich Hacker , called Heinrich (born June 16, 1892 in Würzburg , † December 5, 1970 in Bamberg ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and SA leader , most recently in the rank of group leader .

Life

Heinrich Hacker was the son of the mechanical engineer Andreas Gustav Hacker and Emilie Hacker, née Schmadl. After attending elementary school, he switched to the humanistic grammar school in 1902 , which, after a temporary absence, he did not finish with the Abitur until 1913 . From the spring of 1914 he belonged to the Hohenzollern Foot Artillery Regiment No. 13 of the Prussian Army in Ulm and took part continuously in the First World War after the outbreak of war . After the end of the war he was a member of the "Lettow-Vorbeck" Freikorps for a few months from the spring of 1919 and in June 1921 retired from the Reichswehr with the rank of first lieutenant .

He then studied economics at the University of Würzburg , but had to drop out in 1922 for economic reasons. He then went into business for himself and was a partner in a leather and pumice stone trading business in Naumburg and then in Würzburg .

Hacker joined the Stahlhelm in Naumburg in 1923 and headed the Völkischer Turnerbund there until 1924. In December 1923 he became a member of the NSDAP. After the NSDAP was temporarily banned, he worked in the front ban from 1924 and joined the Völkisch-Soziale Block . He was also active in the Wehrwolf Wehrverband from 1925 to 1926 . After the party ban was lifted, he rejoined the NSDAP in July 1925 and was temporarily not a member of it from 1926 until his re-entry in 1929. For the NSDAP he was a member of the Naumburg parliamentary group from November 1929 to January 1932 as a faction leader of his party in the city council and was also a city councilor there from April 1930. For the NSDAP he was a member of the Bavarian state parliament from April 1933 to October 1933 .

On October 18, 1931, he took part in the SA deployment in Braunschweig and joined the SA in December 1931. He was immediately entrusted with the management of SA Standard 9 in Würzburg for a short time, and from January 1932 to the end of August 1933 he headed the SA sub-group Lower Franconia. In February 1933 he worked full-time for the SA and from March 1933 to July 1934 he was special commissioner of the highest SA leadership in the government of Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg . Promoted to Oberführer at the beginning of September 1933, he took over the management of the SA Brigade in Lower Franconia. As SA Brigade Leader, he took over the management of SA Brigade 6 in Danzig in early January 1935 .

After the beginning of the Second World War he did brief military service and from November 1939 was deployed to the SA construction staff in Wartheland . From January 1940 to 1945 he led the SA group Warthe in Posen , from October 20, 1940 in the rank of SA group leader. Towards the end of the war he was drafted as a captain in the Wehrmacht in Neuruppin .

literature

  • Bruce Campbell: The SA Generals and the Rise of Nazism. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky 2004, ISBN 978-0-8131-9098-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Detlef Belau: The NSDAP in Naumburg (Saale) on http://www.naumburg1933.de
  2. ^ Hacker, Heinrich, in: ders .: Minister of State, senior administrative officials and (NS) functionaries in Bavaria 1918 to 1945
personal data
SURNAME Hacker, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hacker, Elias Gustav Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SA leader and politician (NSDAP), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH 5th December 1970
Place of death Bamberg