Jacques Groeneveld

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Jacques Groenveld

Jacques Bauerman Groeneveld (born July 6, 1892 in Bunderhee , † January 17, 1983 in Bunde , district of Leer ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

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Groeneveld grew up as the son of the farmer Cuno Groeneveld and his wife Adelaide Bauermann together with his two younger sisters Nanzina and Metje on a farm in Bunderhee . After attending the village school there, he first switched to the Latin school in Weener and later to the grammar school in Emden . Despite this higher education, an agricultural apprenticeship followed on the parents' farm in Bunderhee.

At the beginning of the First World War , Groeneveld volunteered as a war volunteer. From March 1915 until the end of the war he fought on the western front and was awarded the Iron Cross II class and the Oldenburg Friedrich August Cross II class.

In 1919 Groeneveld first became a member of the German National People's Party (DNVP). In the following years he worked in various right-wing groups in his home region before he joined the NSDAP in 1930 (membership number 349.394). Groeneveld led the Bunder local group since 1931 and quickly emerged as the leading head of the NSDAP in the Rheiderland. In mid-1932 Groeneveld received the order from Gauleiter Carl Röver in Oldenburg to set up a National Socialist newspaper for East Frisia. Groeneveld initially thought of the local newspaper Rheiderland-Zeitung , which was rooted in Rheiderland , but initially failed with his attempt to install National Socialist like-minded people in the newspaper's chief editor. A Nazi daily newspaper, the Ostfriesische Tageszeitung , did not exist until after 1933.

In the party, after the National Socialists came to power in 1933 , he took over offices as an economic consultant for the NSDAP-Gaus Weser-Ems. Later he became regional chairman of the state farmers' union Hanover and state farmers' leader of the state farmers' union Weser-Ems in Oldenburg. Groeneveld was also a member of the board of directors of Reichsnährstands-Verlags GmbH in Berlin . In the Schutzstaffel (membership number 222.053) Groeneveld reached the rank of SS brigade leader in November 1943 .

From 1932 Groeneveld was a member of the Prussian state parliament , to which he belonged until the body was dissolved in autumn 1933. He then sat from November 1933 until the end of Nazi rule in spring 1945 as a member of the Reichstag for constituency 14 (Weser-Ems) . Since the district council election on March 12, 1933, he also sat for the NSDAP in the Leeran district council . Groeneveld belonged - like the vast majority of the inhabitants of the Rheiderland - to the Reformed Church . He acted as deputy chairman of the regional church assembly and was a member of the general synod of the German Reformed Church. As a National Socialist he was on the side of the German Christians in the church struggle .

In 1937 Groeneveld was appointed head of the Office for Agricultural Policy in Oldenburg and headed the State Food Office there during the Second World War. He campaigned with great conviction for the ideology of National Socialism and for the "preservation of peasantry". His main areas of activity in Oldenburg included questions of inheritance law and leasing; at the same time he dealt with the National Socialist racial ideology .

After the war, Groeneveld was arrested by the Allies. From May 5, 1945 to October 13, 1947, he was in an internment camp . Subsequently, he was banned from any political activity because of his work as a National Socialist politician. He retired then as a 55-year-old on the Old part of the courtyard in Bunderhee, where he lived until the death of his wife Gertrud van Lessen in 1969th During this time he worked on the family history of Groeneveld and worked on High German-Low German Dictionary of Otto Buurman with. After the death of his wife, he moved to the main town of the then Samtgemeinde Bunde. He died there on January 17, 1983 at the age of 90.

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  1. ↑ a b c Annelene Akkermann: Jacques Groeneveld (PDF; 85 kB), in: Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland , accessed on August 14, 2017.
  2. ^ Annelene Akkermann: Rise and seizure of power by the National Socialists in the Rheiderland 1929-1936. In: Herbert Reyer (Hrsg.): Ostfriesland between republic and dictatorship , Verlag Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 1998, ISBN 3-932206-10-X , p. 240.
  3. ↑ Erich Stockhorst: 5000 heads - who was was in the Third Reich , Kiel 2000, p. 164.
  4. ^ Annelene Akkermann: Rise and seizure of power by the National Socialists in the Rheiderland 1929-1936. In: Herbert Reyer (Hrsg.): Ostfriesland between republic and dictatorship , Verlag Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 1998, ISBN 3-932206-10-X , p. 259.
  5. ^ Annelene Akkermann: Rise and seizure of power by the National Socialists in the Rheiderland 1929-1936. In: Herbert Reyer (Hrsg.): Ostfriesland between republic and dictatorship , Verlag Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 1998, ISBN 3-932206-10-X , p. 281.
personal data
SURNAME Groeneveld, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bauerman Groeneveld, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Bunderhee
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 1983
Place of death Bunde , district of Leer