Heinz Späing

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Heinz Späing

Heinz Späing (born January 5, 1893 in Meschede , † January 20, 1946 in Rothenburg ) was a German politician (NSDAP).

Live and act

Life in the Empire

Späing attended elementary school and a secondary school in Mülheim an der Ruhr . Then he started his administrative career in Mülheim an der Ruhr, where he made it to the position of department head at the employment office.

From 1914 to 1918 Späing took part in the First World War. He was wounded three times in the war that he experienced as a member of the 1st Guards Regiment on foot and the 469 Infantry Regiment.

Weimar Republic

After the war, Späing - who at that time held the rank of lieutenant - joined a volunteer corps . Since then he has continued his education through private legal and economic studies. Späing now earned his living as a merchant in Stettin .

In 1923/24 Späing took part in the Ruhr War against the French. They finally sentenced him in absentia; Späing had previously escaped from prison.

In the mid-1920s, Späing joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). In the following years he participated as a local group leader in the expansion of the NSDAP into a mass organization and, after the onset of the crisis in the republic in 1929/30, he also emerged as a circle and district speaker . In 1926 Späing also became a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the party army of the NSDAP, in which he reached the rank of SA-Obergruppenführer, and the Schutzstaffel (SS). During these years he often took part in street fights with political opponents of the National Socialists, where he said he was wounded at least once. In addition, according to the Reichstag handbooks, he was arrested twice for political offenses in the years before the National Socialists came to power.

In the Reichstag elections of July 1932 Späing was 6 (Pomerania) as a candidate of his party for the constituency in the parliament elected, which he initially until the election of November 1932 was a member.

time of the nationalsocialism

After the National Socialist " seizure of power " in 1933, Späing was the founder and director of several SA schools. In addition, from 1933 to 1935 he was the inspector and head of ideological training in the schools of the head of the SA. Since 1934 he was also a member of the People's Court . In 1935 he married Erika, the daughter of a printer in Wernigerode. After the Reichstag election of March 1936, to which only candidates from the NSDAP were admitted, Späing received a new mandate for the Reichstag , which he now belonged to until the collapse of the Nazi state in May 1945. In parliament, Späing represented constituency 2 (Berlin West) from March 1936 to April 1938 and constituency 12 (Thuringia) from April 1938 to May 1945. From 1938 he lived in Langensalza , the seat of the district. As a district administrator, he acted as the leader of the Volkssturm and was captured by the British.

In addition, Späing wrote several articles in which he approached topics such as sport and physical exercise from the National Socialist point of view.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Date of death according to Martin Schumacher / Katharina Lübbe: Md R. Die Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic , 1991, p. 552.
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SURNAME Späing, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Meschede
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1946
Place of death Rothenburg