Hermann Schmidt zur Nedden

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Hermann Schmidt zur Nedden (born January 29, 1893 in Schwerin ; † November 23, 1973 in Lübeck ) was a German administrative and church lawyer and a leading member of the National Socialist German Christians .

Life

Hermann Schmidt zur Nedden was a son of the Mecklenburg-Schwerin Ministerial Secretary, Hofrat Richard Schmidt zur Nedden (1857–). He attended the Gymnasium Fridericianum Schwerin and studied law at the universities of Heidelberg, Munich Leipzig and finally in the summer semester of 1913 at the University of Rostock . After serving in the First World War , he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD.

He entered the administrative service of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and was Drost ( district administrator ) for the Hagenow office from 1922 to 1927 . From 1928 to 1933 he was a member of the government and official syndic of the Rostock district administrator. He was a member of the NSDAP as early as March 1, 1932 .

In the course of the takeover of power by the National Socialist German Christians in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg , who almost completely replaced the upper church council in Schwerin, Schmidt zur Nedden was appointed upper church councilor in December 1933. After the previous president Emil Lemcke was given leave of absence , Schmidt zur Nedden was entrusted with the management of the business on February 1, 1934, and Lemcke's successor as head of the Mecklenburg regional church on April 1, 1934. From February 1934 to July 1939 he was also Gauwalter for church officials in the Reich Association of German Officials . From 1936 onwards, he was a member of the federal government in the Federation for German Christianity and of the National Church Unification of German Christians formed in 1937 .

Schmidt zur Nedden was an informant or employee of the SD and the Gestapo as well as a confidante of the NSDAP in the Mecklenburg church leadership. From 1939 he was also the head of the ga site in the Mecklenburg Gauleitung of the NSDAP in Schwerin.

On June 25, 1945, he and Walther Schultz were arrested and interned by the British occupying forces in Schwerin. In October 1948 he was released from the service of the Mecklenburg regional church.

Works

  • Study of the so-called fixed business according to BGB and HGB Diss. Jur. Rostock 1920

literature

  • Schmidt zur Nedden, Hermann , in: Hannelore Braun, Gertraud Grünzinger: Personal Lexicon on German Protestantism 1919-1949. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2006, ISBN 978-3-525-55761-7 , p. 223
  • Michael Buddrus : Mecklenburg in the Second World War: the meetings of Gauleiter Friedrich Hildebrandt with the NS leadership bodies of Gau Mecklenburg 1939-1945; an edition of the meeting minutes. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8378-4001-8 , p. 1065

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Entry of the father in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. Buddrus, Mecklenburg in the Second World War ... (lit.)
  4. ^ Kurt Meier : The evangelical church fight. Volume 3: Under the sign of the Second World War , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1984 ISBN 9783525555521 , p. 386