Heinz Spangemacher

Heinrich ("Heinz") Hermann Julius Spangemacher (born January 20, 1885 in Walstedde ; † August 14, 1958 in Münster ) was a German educator and politician ( NSDAP ).

Life and work

Spangemacher was born the son of a teacher. After graduating from primary school, attending grammar school in Bocholt and graduating from high school in Borbeck in 1906 , he studied classical philology , German and history at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster for four years . He did military service as a one-year volunteer and participated as a soldier in the First World War, in part, most recently with the rank of first lieutenant of the reserve in Oldenburg Infantry Regiment. 91 . During the war he was on the Western Frontbadly wounded. After the end of the war he was head of a private school for 16 years and joined the German National Guard and Defense Association . From 1920 he was also a member of the Ehrhardt Brigade . In 1929 he founded the Nazi newspaper Northwest German Freedom Fighters and acted as its editor.

Political party

Spangemacher joined the NSDAP in 1923 and became the party's area inspector in Hanover-Kleefeld . After his ministerial tenure, he was resigned as leader of the Lower Saxony State Association of Nazi War Victims Care (NSKOV). In this function he was also a member of the local Gauleitung . Furthermore, he acted as Gauamtsleiter in the Gau Südhannover-Braunschweig and as Gauverbandleiter of the Reichskolonialbund . He was also a member of the SA ( SA-Standartenführer ) and SS .

Political mandates

Spangemacher was a city councilor in the city of Oldenburg in the early 1930s . In the Reichstag elections in September 1930 , he was elected to the German Reichstag , to which he belonged until 1932. After leaving the Oldenburg government and serving as regional leader of the Nazi war victims' pension, he was again a member of the Reichstag on January 30, 1934, when he replaced the resigned MP Bertram Weiler , first for the constituency of Leipzig, then from 1936 to 1945 in the same position for the constituency of southern Hanover-Braunschweig.

Public offices

Spangemacher served from June 16, 1932 to May 15, 1933 as Minister of State for Justice, Churches and Schools in the governments of the Free State of Oldenburg led by Prime Ministers Carl Röver and Georg Joel . From the beginning his administration was characterized by aggressive power politics. Ruthlessly, by intimidating the teachers, he redesigned the country's schools in the “ folkish ” and “ racial ” sense of National Socialism . He did the same with the theaters. Politically unpopular school councils were dismissed and membership in the National Socialist Teachers' Association was compulsory for teachers working in the Free State of Oldenburg , while the Evangelical High School College was dissolved. Despite protests from church and teacher representatives against Spangemacher in autumn 1932, including because of the so-called Kwami affair , he remained in office until the government was reformed due to the Reich Governor Act of 1933 .

literature

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 .
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).
Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 343.
Hubert Geldhaus: The political-social milieu in South Oldenburg from 1803 to 1936. Dissertation at the University of Oldenburg 2000.
Hilke Günther-Arndt : Spangemacher, Heinrich (Heinz) Hermann Julius. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 678 f. ( online ).

Web links

Heinz Spangemacher in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

↑ Uwe Lohalm: Völkischer Radikalismus: The history of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutz-Bund. 1919-1923 . Leibniz-Verlag, Hamburg 1970, pp. 325f. ISBN 3-87473-000-X .

personal data
SURNAME	Spangemacher, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Spangemacher, Heinrich Hermann Julius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German teachers and politicians (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	January 20, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH	Walstedde
DATE OF DEATH	August 14, 1958
Place of death	Muenster

[1] Uwe Lohalm: Völkischer Radikalismus: The history of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutz-Bund. 1919-1923 . Leibniz-Verlag, Hamburg 1970, pp. 325f. ISBN 3-87473-000-X .