Heinrich de Haan

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Heinrich de Haan (born April 5, 1896 in Bremerhaven , † March 4, 1957 in Rendsburg ) was a German politician .

Life

Born as the son of a Lloyd officer, de Haan studied medicine in Marburg after attending grammar school in Bremerhaven . During his studies he became a member of the Alemannia Marburg fraternity in 1914 . He took part in the First World War as a volunteer from 1914 to 1918, most recently as a lieutenant . After the First World War, he studied economics and social sciences in Frankfurt am Main and in 1921 received a degree in business administration . He worked in the Association of Germans Damaged Abroad and later in the compensation department of the wholesale company Boer, Sonderheimer & Co. In 1923 he was promoted to Dr. rer. pole. PhD . He worked at the Darmstädter Nationalbank in Frankfurt and in 1926 became a consultant at the Frankfurt Economic Office.

Haan was elected first mayor of Rendsburg in 1929 with the help of the democratic structures of the Weimar democracy . Until he came to power, he fought against these very structures. According to his own information, Haan belonged to the German National People's Party (DNVP) until mid-1929 , to the German People's Party (DVP) until November 27, 1931, and then again to the DNVP until April 29, 1933. This was nationalistic, anti-Semitic, hostile to the republic, folkish and partly monarchistic oriented. Because of the similarity of the program, it worked closely with the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) . After the seizure of power jointly with the NSDAP , the DNVP was outmaneuvered by the National Socialists within a few months and finally banned. On April 29, 1933, Haan applied for membership in the NSDAP, having shortly before left the DNVP. The Rendsburg local group of the NSDAP opposed because Haan was still a member of the DNVP organization Stahlhelm and had belonged to the DNVP. Because of this, and because the NSDAP had been suspended for several years, de Haan's application was only granted in 1937. In June 1937 de Haan also became a supporting member of the SS (membership number 523731).

In 1934 Haan was first given leave of absence and then retired, but not - as it was called after 1945 - “for political reasons”. He was in the way of the ambitious young NSDAP local group leader Franz Krabbes . He became spa director on Norderney (also mayor between 1934 and 1936, residing at Janusstrasse 6 ), in Bad Oeynhausen and Bad Wildungen . In 1937 Haan became a member of the NSDAP. He had previously been an active member of the Sturmabteilung (SA). After the Second World War , de Haan was again mayor of Rendsburg in 1950. He was chairman of the Schleswig-Holstein regional association of the German Association of Cities , a member of the main board of the German Youth Association and a member of the state board of the Trustees of Indivisible Germany .

The 2009 bust by de Haan in front of the historic town hall in Rendsburg was controversial. Because of de Haan's anti-Semitism in the Third Reich, especially as spa director, it was removed on June 11, 2020 after a decision by the culture committee.

Honors

In the meantime removed bronze bust of Heinrich de Haan on the old town market in front of the historic town hall in Rendsburg
  • Until 2019, the branch of the vocational training center in Röhlingsweg in Rendsburg was named after Heinrich de Haan.
  • By 2020: Heinrich De Haan Memorial . Bronze bust in front of the historic town hall in Rendsburg.

literature

  • Günter Neugebauer : Against forgetting. Victims and perpetrators in Rendsburg's Nazi era . Rendsburg printing and publishing house, Osterrönfeld, ISBN 978-3-9810912-6-7 . In particular, Chapter 3.2 Dr. Heinrich Haan - Mayor of Rendsburg in three political systems. Pp. 97-124.

Web links

Commons : Heinrich de Haan  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Neugebauer : Against forgetting. Victims and perpetrators in Rendsburg's Nazi era . Rendsburger Druck- und Verlagshaus, Osterrönfeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-9810912-6-7 , p. 99ff.
  2. ↑ 1934 . Hans-Helmut-Barty. Accessed January 31, 2018.
  3. ↑ With this bust Rendsburg honors a man who agitated against Jews during the Nazi era . In: Schleswig-Holsteinische Landeszeitung , May 20, 2020.
  4. ↑ Politicians decide: bust of anti-Semite Heinrich de Haan will be dismantled . In: Schleswig-Holsteinische Landeszeitung, June 10, 2020.
  5. ↑ Heinrich de Haan's bronze head at the old town hall in Rendsburg is gone . In: Schleswig-Holsteinische Landeszeitung, June 11, 2020.
  6. ↑ Rendsburg recalls earlier Nazis , Kieler Nachrichten, March 20, 2019.
  7. ↑ Unveiled bronze bust of Heinrich de Haan , Kieler Nachrichten, April 5, 2009.
  8. ^ "A symbolic figure for civil liberty" , Schleswig-Holsteinische Landeszeitung, April 6, 2009. Accessed November 16, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Haan, Heinrich de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremerhaven
DATE OF DEATH March 4th 1957
Place of death Rendsburg