Hieronymus Merkle
Hieronymus Merkle (born September 28, 1887 in Schrezheim , † February 24, 1970 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).
Live and act
The son of a farmer attended elementary school in Schrezheim and Gaishardt . Between 1903 and 1905 he completed an apprenticeship as a baker and also attended the advanced training school in Ellwangen. In October 1907 he joined the 12th field artillery regiment of the Bavarian Army in Landau in the Palatinate . In May 1908 he committed himself to twelve years of service as a non-commissioned officer . Merkle returned from the First World War with 80 percent war damage. On March 31, 1920 he was discharged from the Reichswehr as a lieutenant in the reserve . In 1921 Merkle joined as operations assistant at the Deutsche Reichsbahn one. During the Allied occupation of the Rhineland in 1923 he was temporarily expelled from the occupied area. Merkle was married; the marriage resulted in two children.
In 1924 Merkle belonged to the Völkisch-Soziale Block . In March 1929 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 118,768); in autumn 1931 he became a member of the SA . From 1930 Merkle was a city councilor first in Bad Dürkheim , then in neighboring Neustadt. In the party he worked as a local group leader in both cities.
After the transfer of power to the National Socialists, Merkle was given leave of absence from the Reichsbahn for party service in 1933. Between spring 1933 and March 1936 he was first alderman in Neustadt, then until July 1937 mayor of Bad Dürkheim. Between April 1938 and January 1939 Merkle was after the "annexation" of Austria in the Lower Danube abgeordert he advised on questions of party building. In the party he was district leader of Neustadt from 1933 to 1942; During the Second World War he also took on this function in occupied Lorraine for the district of Sankt Avold (July 1940 to August 1942), the city of Metz (September 1941 to August 1942) and the district of Metz (September 1941 to January 1942).
On September 1, 1942, Merkle became district leader and mayor in Frankenthal . On November 6, 1942 Merkle took over the mandate of the Reichstag deputy Julius Weber, who died in the war on January 15, 1942 . He then belonged to the National Socialist Reichstag for almost two and a half years until the end of Nazi rule in spring 1945 as a representative of constituency 27 (Rheinpfalz-Saarland).
At the end of the war, Merkle fled Frankenthal. He was arrested on July 21, 1945 in Kleinsorheim in the Nördlingen district and then interned under automatic arrest until September 1948 . In one of the aviation trials Merkle was acquitted on June 1, 1948 by a British court martial in Hamburg . The subject of the proceedings was the murder of the British aviator Cyril William Sibley , who was shot in February 1945 by the Dirmstein local group leader Adolf Wolfert . Wolfert had claimed in earlier proceedings that he acted at Merkle's insistence. During the denazification in September 1948, Merkle was initially classified as the "main culprit" by the judging chamber in the Ludwigsburg internment camp . In the appeal process he was classified as an “incriminated person”; the atonement measures imposed were later, insofar as they had not been served by the internment, remitted by pardon.
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 , p. 413 .
- Franz Maier: Biographical organization manual of the NSDAP and its divisions in the area of today's state of Rhineland-Palatinate . (= Publications of the Parliament's Commission for the History of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate , Volume 28) Hase & Koehler, Mainz 2007, ISBN 3-7758-1407-8 , pp. 348-350.
Web links
- Entry on Hieronymus Merkle in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Merkle, Hieronymus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (NSDAP), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schrezheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 24, 1970 |
| Place of death | Neustadt an der Weinstrasse |
Hermann Strasser (1921–1933) | Hieronymus Merkle (1942–1945) | Hermann Strasser (1945) | Karl Zimmermann (1946–1947) | Karl Breyer (1947–1948) | Adam Kroll (1949) | Emil Kraus (1949–1959) | Jürgen Hahn (1959–1964) | Berno Zeißler (1964–1972) | Günter Kahlberg (1972–1983) | Jochen Riebel (1984–1989) | Peter Popitz (1990–1999) | Theo Wieder (2000–2015) | Martin Hebich (since 2016)