Heinrich Teipel (politician)

Heinrich Teipel

Heinrich Teipel (born March 22, 1885 in Arnsberg , † April 11, 1945 in Wanzleben ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ), veterinarian and SA leader . He was one of the leading representatives of the party in the Sauerland .

Live and act

Early years

He was the son of the butcher of the same name and his wife Mathilde (née Wolter). After attending elementary school and high school in Arnsberg, Teipel studied at the veterinary college in Berlin . In 1908 he passed the state examination and then worked as an active veterinary officer until 1919. His doctorate as Dr. med. vet. did not take place until 1923. As early as 1913 he had married Anna Kolbe, who later built up the National Socialist women's group in Arnsberg.

During the First World War , Teipel participated from 1914 to 1918 with the Cuirassier Regiment 4 , with the 7th Battalion of the Foot Artillery Regiment 5 and as a senior veterinarian of the German troops with the II. And III. Bulgarian army . During the war he was awarded the Iron Cross of both classes and the Bulgarian Order of War Merit V Class.

Weimar Republic

From 1919 to 1921 Teipel earned his living as a practical veterinarian in Balve . He then headed the slaughterhouse in Arnsberg in the Sauerland as director until 1933.

Teipel has been politically active in the NSDAP since 1924. Together with 25 others he founded the party's local branch in Arnsberg. Since 1924 he was initially the only member of the NSDAP in the Arnsberg city ​​council . He was a member of this until 1931. After that he was a member of the magistrate until 1933 . For him, the establishment of the NSDAP in Arnsberg was of great strategic importance because the city, as the seat of the district administration, the district government and numerous other authorities and courts, was the political center of the Sauerland. From there, the region should be won over to the NSDAP. For this reason he has brought high-ranking speakers from the party such as Joseph Goebbels and Wilhelm Frick to the city. According to his own statement, however, the rise met with considerable resistance, “because here the Social Democratic District President Max König and his assistant, District Administrator Dr. Haslinde officiated. "

From 1925 to August 31, 1931 he served as district manager of the Sauerland district. These included the Arnsberg , Meschede and Brilon districts . Under his decisive leadership, local groups of the party were founded in numerous cities. In 1929 the district was divided. The eastern one was led by Heinrich Nierfeld from Brilon. In the same year Teipel was elected as the first and at that time only member of the NSDAP in the district assembly of the Arnsberg district. A year later Teipel apparently withdrew from politics and allegedly also resigned from the NSDAP. The background was the prohibition of membership in the NSDAP for state officials by the Prussian Interior Minister Carl Severing . After the repeal of this provision by Chancellor Franz von Papen in 1932, Teipel reappeared as a National Socialist in public.

From September 1, 1932 to January 10, 1934 he was district leader of the NSDAP in the Arnsberg district. The background was that the Sauerland district had been divided into organizations for the Arnsberg, Meschede and Brilon districts due to increased membership. As district leader, Teipel was a full-time functionary of the NSDAP.

time of the nationalsocialism

In the last halfway free district election on March 5, 1933, the NSDAP in the Arnsberg district lagged far behind the Reich average in the Reichstag election . It received only 20.9% of the vote and only 7 - including Teipel - of the 27 district council members. Nevertheless, Teipel claimed the office of district administrator for himself in the first district council meeting . After the previous District Administrator Haslinde resigned, Teipel was appointed his successor by decree by Hermann Göring . In 1934, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the foundation of the NSDAP in Arnsberg, Teipel was made an honorary citizen of Arnsberg because of his "great service" in building up the party in the Sauerland. The bridge square in the center of the city was renamed Heinrich-Teipel-Platz. On January 10, 1934, he was also Gauinspector of Gauinspektion V of Gaus Westfalen-Süd . In this function Teipel was also responsible for the political supervision of the higher officials of the Arnsberg government. Resigned temporarily, he was reappointed district leader of the Arnsberg district on November 30, 1936.

From March 1936 until the end of Nazi rule in spring 1945, Teipel also sat as a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for constituency 18 (South Westphalia) . In addition, Teipel was since 1934 Prussian provincial councilor and member of the storm department , in which he reached the rank of standard leader in 1943. At the local level he was councilor in Arnsberg from 1935 to 1945 and from 1929 to 1930 a member of the Provincial Parliament of Westphalia .

In 1938 Teipel became chairman of the NSDAP district court in Arnsberg. At the beginning of the Second World War , he temporarily took over the official duties of the district administrator in the Lippstadt and Soest districts . In 1942 he received the Golden Party Badge .

A short time later, Teipel's political career initially ended. On May 22, 1942, he was forbidden from any official activity by the Reich Minister of the Interior and he was given leave until further notice. The background to this was a criminal case against his wife, who had been sentenced to a fine of 1,000 RM for purchasing illegally acquired food .

Teipel was deposed as district administrator and assigned to the Reich Ministry for the occupied eastern territories . From 1943 he was regional commissioner in the Reichskommissariat Ukraine . In 1944 he was appointed to represent the administration of the Wanzleben district office . Teipel took his own life in April 1945 when the American troops marched in.

Fonts

• Comparative studies on the diagnostic value of the conjunctival and palpebral reactions in bovine tuberculosis , Berlin 1923. (Dissertation)

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).
• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
• Jürgen Schulte-Hobein: "Between democracy and dictatorship - the rise of National Socialism in the district administrations of the Hochsauerlandkreis", in: Werden, Wachsen, Wirken. The Change of Time - District Administrations in the Hochsauerlandkreis 1817–2007 . Arnsberg 2007, pp. 172-196.
• Jürgen Schulte-Hobein: "And one day the swastika was on the bell tower". The Rise of National Socialism in the City of Arnsberg (1918–1934), Siegen 2000.

Web links

• Heinrich Teipel in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Literature by and about Heinrich Teipel in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Quoted from Werden, Wachsen, Wirken, p. 174.