Karl Heinrich Sieber

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Karl Heinrich Sieber

Karl Heinrich Sieber (born September 10, 1888 in Ronneburg , † August 31, 1946 in Braunschweig ) was a German politician ( CNBL , NSDAP ) and SA brigad leader .

Life

After attending elementary school and secondary school, Sieber embarked on an officer career. In March 1909 he joined the 19 Grimma Hussar Regiment . From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War, in which he was deployed as a regimental adjutant and squadron leader. On November 30, 1917, he was promoted to Rittmeister. Before he left in 1918, he was awarded the Iron Cross of both classes.

In 1919 and 1920 Sieber underwent practical agricultural training and studies at the University of Leipzig. In 1921 he took over the management of the Wiederoda manor, which his wife Gertrud had brought into the marriage. Politically, he was active in the following years in the Christian National Peasant and Rural People's Party , in which he took over the chairmanship of the Saxon section of the party. After the Reichstag election in September 1930 , Sieber moved into the Reichstag , which he initially belonged to until July 1932.

Even before the first session of the Reichstag, he called for a “sharp right course” in an article in the Nassau farmers' newspaper. In doing so, he was in contradiction to his group colleagues, who took a more liberal course. When the differences within the parliamentary group became too great, Sieber and the director of the Reichslandbund v. Sybel joined the NSDAP , which he joined on December 1, 1931. However, he did not give up his mandate and was consequently listed in the minutes as "NSDAP (guest)". Even before the change, he took part in various boycotts by the National Socialists, the aim of which was to make parliament incapable of working or to make it ridiculous.

As a gauredner of the NSDAP Sieber led election campaigns for the two subsequent Reichstag elections, in which he won no mandate. In his constituency of Oschatz, the proportion of NSDAP voters rose from 15.0% in 1930 to 44.8% in July 1932 and 38.9% in November 1932, in order to win in the Reichstag election in March 1933 - when the dictatorship of National Socialism was already beginning. 47.5% to be achieved. After the election, Sieber returned to the Reichstag. Since his mandate was confirmed in the following three sham elections - only one National Socialist-dominated unit list was allowed - in November 1933, March 1936 and May 1938, Sieber belonged to the National Socialist Reichstag without interruption until the end of Nazi rule in May 1945. One of the important parliamentary events in which he was involved during his time as a member of parliament was the vote on the Enabling Act in March 1933. This law, which formed the legal basis for the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship, was also voted with decided.

After 1933 Sieber took on numerous functions in his constituency of Oschatz and in Saxony:

  • agricultural district clerk of the NSDAP (1931-1936),
  • Head of State Department for the State Farmers' Union of Saxony (1933–1934),
  • Chairman of the Council of Honor of the State Farmers' Union,
  • District farmer leader (1933-36) and later old district farmer leader (1938),
  • Chairman of the Oschatz District Assembly (1933–1938),
  • Member of the Sächsischer Gemeindetag (since 1933), and
  • Member of the Saxon regional synod (since 1933).

From 1935 onwards he gave up most of his offices “out of work overload”, while he continued his career in the SA. In 1936 he became Standartenführer and in 1943 SA Brigade Leader, who was equal to the rank of major general in the army. In addition, he became the representative of the Reich inspector for riding and driving training and group rider leader of the SA group in Saxony.

In 1941 Sieber was drafted into the Wehrmacht and participated in the Russian campaign for two months until he was discharged from active service due to a heart attack. Returning to Saxony, he survived the bombing raid on Dresden on February 13, 1945 by jumping into the ice-cold Elbe and thus escaping the flames.

The American army captured the Wiederoda manor without a fight and later handed it over to the Russians. Since Sieber was wanted by the Soviet military administration, he fled to West Germany under a false name. The manor was expropriated in accordance with Article 2, Paragraph 2 of the Agricultural Land Reform, which referred to war criminals, those guilty of war and property belonging to the Nazi leaders. The family was interned on Rügen and was able to flee to the west. Karl Heinrich Sieber died in Braunschweig in 1946 as a result of pneumonia.

After his death, two lawsuits were carried out, which concerned Sieber's not inconsiderable estate. A jury before selected witnesses testified his innocence decided in 1952 not to confiscate his estate. In another proceeding, which concerned the transfer back of the expropriated real estate in East Germany, the Administrative Court of Leipzig found that Sieber had “given the National Socialist system a considerable boost”. He would have "with a certain steadfastness taken actions ... that were suitable to improve the conditions for the establishment, development or expansion of the National Socialist system or to suppress resistance to this system".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Markus Müller: The Christian National Peasant and Rural People's Party 1928-1933 , 2001.
  2. ^ Nassau farmers' newspaper October 14, 1930
  3. ^ Niklas Sieber: Heinrich Sieber, Hitler's pioneer. A biography created by his grandson Niklas Sieber . Self-published, Stuttgart 2018.
  4. ↑ Niklas Sieber 2018, p. 131.
  5. ↑ Public meeting of the Main Chamber of Munich on May 28, 1952, AZ: H / 10209/52, State Archives Munich SpK K 1527
  6. ↑ Leipzig Administrative Court, judgment of April 19, 2013 due to the Compensation Act

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SURNAME Sieber, Karl Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CNBLP, NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Ronneburg
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1946
Place of death Braunschweig