Jürgen von Ramin

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Jürgen von Ramin

Jürgen von Ramin (born April 23, 1884 in Külz near Naugard ; † October 8, 1962 in Ramholz , Schlüchtern district ) was a German Junker , businessman, writer and national-socialist politician.

Life

Ramin attended school in Naugard as well as grammar schools in Stettin and Stargard in Pomerania . After graduating from high school, he embarked on a career as an officer and was promoted to lieutenant in the Guard Cuirassier Regiment on January 27, 1911 . When the First World War broke out , he was first lieutenant and last served as an adjutant of the 92nd Infantry Division .

In 1919 he was retired from military service as Rittmeister . He then settled in Berlin-Nikolassee and was editor of the magazine Ringendes Deutschtum, which he published, as well as managing director and co-owner of an industrial company.

Ramin led the Berlin branch of the German People's League until this association, which had around 3,000 members, joined the German People's Protection and Defense Association in autumn 1920 after long negotiations . After the merger, Ramin headed the Berlin Gauverband des Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund.

In 1924 he sat in the second and third electoral periods for constituency 1 (East Prussia) in the Reichstag , where he represented the National Socialist Freedom Party and the National Socialist Freedom Movement. When the National Socialist Freedom Movement disbanded in the third electoral term, he switched to the Völkische Arbeitsgemeinschaft of the DVFP .

On March 1, 1927, Ramin published an open letter in the Deutsches Tageblatt in which he claimed that Adolf Hitler had “large industrial patrons” and that he, Ramin, had sat at a table with Hitler with these patrons. Ramin got violent about these statements and a. in conflict with Gregor Strasser , who was also noticed outside of the völkisch-national-socialist press.

In 1928 the Ramin family lost their property.

In the course of the " seizure of power " by the NSDAP, Ramin confessed to National Socialism and its racist and anti-communist policies.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data according to Martin Schumacher (ed.): MdR, the members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, p. 381.
  2. Winfried Baumgart (ed.): From Brest-Litovsk to the German November Revolution: From the diaries, letters and records of Alfons Paquet, Wilhelm Groener and Albert Hopman March - November 1918. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1971, p. 283; wrongly stated there as NSDAP-MdR.
  3. Uwe Lohalm: Völkischer Radikalismus: The history of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutz-Bund. 1919-1923 . Leibniz-Verlag, Hamburg 1970, pp. 85, 359.
  4. Lohalm 1970, p. 94.
  5. Wolfgang Horn: Leader ideology and party organization in the NSDAP: (1919-1933) . Droste, Düsseldorf 1972, p. 250.
  6. Cf. the articles "'Germany's renewers' among themselves" in the Vossische Zeitung (morning edition) of March 2, 1927 and "Der völkische Bruderkrieg" in the Berliner Tageblatt (morning edition) of March 2, 1927.
  7. Shelley Baranowski: The sanctity of rural life: nobility, Protestantism, and Nazism in Weimar Prussia . Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford 1995, p. 71.
  8. See the article “Kampf dem Bolschewismus” in Deutsches Adelsblatt 51, No. 12 (March 18, 1933).