Karl Heidemann

Karl Heidemann

Karl Heidemann (born April 29, 1895 in Schildesche , † August 22, 1975 in Detmold ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

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After attending primary school , Heidemann completed a three and a half year apprenticeship as a carpenter. In the First World War , in which he was badly wounded, he participated as a pioneer. During the war he received the Iron Cross II. Class , the Wound Badge in black and the Cross of Honor for Frontline Fighters. After the war he studied for two semesters at the craft school and then worked as a self-employed master carpenter for eight years.

From February 1, 1931 to September 30, 1932, Heidemann was head of the NSDAP local group in Bielefeld , then from October 1, 1932 to May 1, 1933, district leader for the Bielefeld district . In 1933 he was Gauinspector and Gauamtsleiter in Gau Westfalen-Nord. From 1933 to April 1934, Heidemann was also an honorary councilor in the Bielefeld magistrate. From July 1934, Heidemann was a paid councilor in Bielefeld as a police department head.

From April 1932 until the dissolution of this body in autumn 1933, Heidemann was a member of the Prussian state parliament . He then sat from November 1933 until the end of Nazi rule in spring 1945 as a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for constituency 17 (North Westphalia) . From April 1, 1935 to February 23, 1938 he was also a member of the Prussian Provincial Council . In the NSDAP, Heidemann was again Gau inspector in Gau Westfalen-Nord from 1944.

At the end of the war, Heidemann was interned in Eselheide , among others, according to the automatic arrest . During the denazification in September 1947, he was sentenced to four years imprisonment and confiscation of assets by the Bielefeld Court of Justice , whereby the internment was offset against the imprisonment period. After serving his sentence in Esterwegen , he was released in May 1949. He then worked as a commercial clerk in Bielefeld. A preliminary investigation against Heidemann started in 1961 because of a possible involvement in the deportation of Jews in Bielefeld was discontinued in 1965 without a charge being brought.

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. 218 .

Web links

• Karl Heidemann in the database of members of the Reichstag