Karl Dincklage

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Karl Dincklage (born September 21, 1874 in Wilhelmshaven ; † October 7, 1930 in Davos , Switzerland) was a German officer and NSDAP functionary.

Life

Dincklage embarked on an officer career in the Prussian army and served a. a. as a company commander in the 5th Rhenish Infantry Regiment No. 65 in Cologne. During the First World War he was transferred to the air force. In February 1916 he became department leader of the pilot replacement department No. 3 and in August of the same year department leader of the field pilot department 1. In 1918 he retired with the rank of major from active military service. After the end of the war he was politically active, initially as a representative of the German-Völkische Freedom Party (DVFP) in the city parliament of Hanover .

From 1924 until 1929, Dincklage was in charge of the National Socialists' "Gau business office" at Braunschweiger Straße 2 .

In the spring of 1925, Dincklage, together with Bernhard Rust, actively contributed to the conversion of the entire Hanoverian DVFP regional association to the NSDAP. In March 1925 Dincklage was appointed deputy Gauleiter and Gau-SA-Führer of the newly formed NSDAP Gaues Hannover-Nord. Until 1929 he headed the NSDAP's regional office there. In 1928 he was appointed by the highest SA leader Franz Pfeffer von Salomon as the deputy of the highest SA leader north, based in Hanover. In this position, which he held until his death, he also appeared actively at the Nuremberg Reich Party Congress of the NSDAP from August 1st to 4th, 1929.

Dincklage became a well-known figure in the Hannover-Nord Gau as the »Rucksack Major«, as he knew how to agitate the rural population in a popular way as a party speaker for the NSDAP and to mobilize voters successfully in regional and Reichstag elections. where he often traveled by bike to his performances.

Junkers Ju 52 "Major Dincklage" of the "Reichsregierung" flight squadron

Dincklage died in Davos. The urn with his ashes was buried in the presence of Adolf Hitler on October 18, 1930 in the main cemetery in Braunschweig . Dincklage's successor in the function of Supreme SA Leader North was the later SA Chief of Staff Viktor Lutze from mid-October 1930 .

aftermath

After Dincklage's death, the National Socialists made Dincklage a “hero of the movement”; For example, SA Standard 73 (Hanover location) had been given the honorary name "Dincklage" since February 19, 1937 and in Hildesheim , on the occasion of the ten-year existence of the southern Hanover-Braunschweig district, the Steingrube square was opened in "Karl-Dincklage-Platz" in 1935 renamed.

Page from the address book of the city of Hanover from 1942 with explanations on Dincklagestrasse

"After the National Socialist pioneer Major Karl Dincklage", from 1933 to 1945 the Kurz Strasse in the (present-day) Hanover district of Mitte was renamed Dincklagestrasse .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Klaus Mlynek: DINCKLAGE ... (see literature)
  2. ↑ Sören Philipps: Hildesheimer Gedächtnisorte - a local study on collective memory from the imperial era until today . Weißensee-Verlag, Berlin 2002, p. 137. ISBN 3-934479-75-8 .
  3. ↑ Compare for example Dincklagestrasse in the address book of the city of Hanover 1942 , Part II, p. 54
personal data
SURNAME Dincklage, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP)
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilhelmshaven
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1930
Place of death Davos (Switzerland)