Hermann Freytag
Hermann Freytag (born July 9, 1900 in Hamm , † January 10, 1962 in Duisburg ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and Lord Mayor of Duisburg.
Life
Freytag attended elementary and secondary school in Hamm and graduated from Hammonense grammar school in 1919 . He volunteered for military service and was a 1919 and 1920 the free corps "gendarme" of. He then studied in Münster at the Westphalian Wilhelms University and in Cologne at the University of Economics and graduated in 1924 with a degree in economics from the University of State and Economics in Detmold . After various positions, he worked from 1927 to 1933 as a foreign merchant for Friedrich Krupp AG in Essen , where he was an employee representative on the supervisory board from 1933 to 1934.
As early as 1920 he became a member of the National Socialist Workers' Association and, after its dissolution, the Völkisch Bloc . On August 1, 1930, he joined the NSDAP . From 1931 he was organizational leader in Essen, from 1932 local group leader and from 1932 to 1937 district leader there. On March 12, 1933 he became a city councilor. Also in 1933 he became a member of the Prussian Landtag , to which he belonged until it was dissolved in the autumn of the same year. He then sat from November 1933 until his early departure on June 30, 1937 in the National Socialist Reichstag , in which he represented constituency 23 (Düsseldorf-West). His mandate was then taken over by Peter Hütgens .
On September 30, 1937, he succeeded Just Dillgardt as mayor of Duisburg and held this office until his removal on April 16, 1945 by the Allied troops.
After the end of the war he went into hiding. The Essen Spruchkammer negotiated against Freytag on June 27 and 28, 1949. This was followed by a hearing before the Essen jury, in which he was sentenced on July 19, 1950 to a prison term of one year and three months for crimes against humanity, in unity with deprivation of liberty and dangerous bodily harm. After his release from prison he worked as an employee in Duisburg.
literature
- Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads: who was what? Bacht, Essen 1985, ISBN 3-87034-037-1 .
- Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Hermann Freytag in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hermann Freytag in the database of members of the Reichstag
Individual evidence
- ^ Carsten Doerfert: The Prince Leopold Academy for Administrative Sciences - Attempt and failure of a university in Detmold (1916–1924) . Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2016, p. 189 .
- ↑ a b German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE). 2nd Edition. Volume 3 (Einstein - Görner), Munich / Leipzig 2006, p. 509
- ^ Ulrich Schneider: Antifascist and trade unionist. Willy Schmidt . A political biography , 2001, p. 109.
Gottfried Schlegtendal (1851–1863) | Otto Keller (1863–1873) | Friedrich Wilhelm Wegner (1873–1879) | Karl Lehr (1879–1914) | Karl Jarres (1914–1933) | Ernst Kelter (1933–1934) | Just Dillgardt (1934–1937) | Hermann Freytag (1937–1945) | Heinrich Weitz (1945–1947) | Leo Storm (1947-1948) | August Seeling (1948–1969) | Arnold Masselter (1969–1974) | Ernst Ermert (1975) | Josef Krings (1975–1997) | Bärbel Zieling (1997-2004) | Adolf Sauerland (2004–2012) | Sören Link (since 2012)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Freytag, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mayor of Duisburg, MdR, MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 9, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamm |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 10, 1962 |
| Place of death | Duisburg |