Joachim Meyer-Quade

Joachim Meyer-Quade (born November 22, 1897 in Düsseldorf , † September 10, 1939 near Piątek ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and SA leader .

Live and act

Meyer-Quade attended elementary school. From 1914 to 1915 he was in an agricultural apprenticeship. On January 21, 1915, he joined Field Artillery Regiment No. 84 in Ypres , then on November 1, the 99th Infantry Regiment , with whom he fought in Flanders, Verdun and Somme , and finally fell into French captivity. After several attempts to escape, he was released from prison in January 1920. After the war Meyer-Quade worked again in agriculture, initially again as an apprentice. From 1924 to 1925 he attended a higher education institution for practical farmers in Schleswig . He then worked as an agricultural inspector until 1926.

In June 1925 Meyer-Quade became a member of the NSDAP, membership number 7,608. Together with the Gauleiter of Schleswig-Holstein Hinrich Lohse , Meyer-Quade was soon the leading National Socialist in the province. As the NSDAP district leader, Meyer-Quade was responsible for the northeast of Schleswig-Holstein. From August to December 1932 he briefly took over the office of NSDAP Gauleiter of Schleswig-Holstein. He joined the SA in July 1927. After several promotions he reached the rank of SA-Oberführer in July 1932 and was responsible for the leadership of the SA sub-group Schleswig.

In 1929 Meyer-Quade became a member of the Schleswig district council . In the Reichstag election of September 1930 Meyer-Quade was elected as a candidate of the NSDAP for constituency 13 (Schleswig-Holstein) in the Reichstag , to which he belonged until May 24, 1932. Ferdinand Schramm moved up for him . The reason for the waiver of his mandate was Meyer-Quade's election to the Prussian state parliament , of which he was a member until 1933. In the state parliament he was chairman of the agriculture committee. In November 1933, 16 months after leaving the Reichstag, Meyer-Quade returned to the parliament , which had become inoperable after the takeover of power , and of which he was a member until his death in September 1939.

After the National Socialists came to power, Meyer-Quade took on various state offices. As district administrator of the Schleswig district, he left in December 1933 shortly after his appointment at his own request. From April 1934 he was police chief in Kiel . In July 1934 he became a member of the People's Court . Meyer-Quade was last promoted to SA Obergruppenführer in the SA in November 1937. From September 1935 he led the SA group in Nordmark. On the evening of November 9, he ordered his deputy, Carsten Volquardsen, by telephone from Munich to carry out the November 1938 pogroms in Schleswig-Holstein, during which all synagogues and assembly rooms were destroyed and all shops owned by Jews. Almost all Jews were arrested. The men were then deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . The remaining family members have been released.

In September 1939 Meyer-Quade took part in the attack on Poland with the rank of lieutenant and leader of an infantry rifle company . Less than two weeks after the start of the war, he was killed in combat at Piatek. The National Socialists took the death of Meyer-Quade as an opportunity to develop a personality cult. A square was named after him in his hometown, and a Hitler Youth home in Tønder. In the Warthegau , a western part of the German-occupied area of Poland planned for the early German settlement, a department of the Reich Labor Service was named after Meyer-Quade. In northern France, near Eperlecques-lez-Watten, a camp of the Todt Organization was named after him. In the Generalgouvernement , the eastern part of occupied Poland, his place of death Piątek was renamed after Meyer-Quade in Quadenstädt. Emil Bannemann replaced Meyer-Quade in the Reichstag.

Individual evidence

^ Changes in the alphabetical index of the members of the Reichstag . Reichstag handbook, 5th electoral term, 1930.
↑ Thielemans, Jean-Charles. “Mayer-Quade Lager, entre répression et exploitation. Etude quantitative et de fund à partir de dossiers nominatifs conservés aux Archives du Service des Victimes de la Guerre ”. Mémoire de master, Université libre de Bruxelles, 2011.
↑ "Order on change of place names in the Reichsgau Wartheland" of the Reichsstatthalters from May 18, 1943 (Ordinance sheet of the Reichsstatthalters in the Warthegau No. 12/1943), p. 98.

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. 417 f .

Web links

Joachim Meyer-Quade in the database of members of the Reichstag

personal data
SURNAME	Meyer-Quade, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (NSDAP), MdR, MdL, SA leader
DATE OF BIRTH	November 22, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH	September 10, 1939
Place of death	at Piątek

[1] Changes in the alphabetical index of the members of the Reichstag . Reichstag handbook, 5th electoral term, 1930.

[2] Thielemans, Jean-Charles. “Mayer-Quade Lager, entre répression et exploitation. Etude quantitative et de fund à partir de dossiers nominatifs conservés aux Archives du Service des Victimes de la Guerre ”. Mémoire de master, Université libre de Bruxelles, 2011.

[3] "Order on change of place names in the Reichsgau Wartheland" of the Reichsstatthalters from May 18, 1943 (Ordinance sheet of the Reichsstatthalters in the Warthegau No. 12/1943), p. 98.