Otto Heider

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Karl Hermann Otto Heider (born May 26, 1896 in Bremerhaven ; † May 13, 1960 in Aerzen-Groß Berkel ) was a German politician (NSDAP) . At the time of National Socialism , he was Bremen's mayor from 1934 to 1937 . During the Second World War he was police chief of Münster from 1940 to 1942 and then headed the marriage office in the Race and Settlement Main Office (RuSHA), where he was most recently deputy director. He was promoted to SS Brigade Leader and Major General of the Police .

Life

Heider was born the son of a bookseller and went through elementary and secondary schools in Bremerhaven, Bremen and Nordenham . He then began an apprenticeship in electrics, which he had to break off in 1914 because he was drafted into the First World War as a soldier . After the end of the war, he studied electrical engineering in Bremen for two years from 1919 to 1921 before working as an electrical engineer. From 1925 he was head of a small poultry farm in Bad Sachsa . From 1928 to 1931 he had a job at the AG Weser and in the Bremen Cotton Exchange . From February 1931 he was unemployed for two years.

Heider had already joined the NSDAP in mid-September 1925 ( membership number 18.615) and, after a short break, became a member of this party again in 1930. From July 1930 he was a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA). He began his political career in 1930 when he moved into the Bremen citizenry and from 1931 when he took on the position of parliamentary leader of the NSDAP.

After the seizure of power by the Nazis, he was appointed on 11 March 1933, Commissioner for employers, welfare and Medizinalwesen, on March 18, as Acting Senator in these areas and on October 1, senator for work, technology and welfare. During his tenure, he was also President of the Evangelical Regional Church . In this function he helped the German Christians and Heinrich Weidemann as regional bishop to power.

On October 29, 1934 he became mayor of the city of Bremen . An affair about incorrectly used foundation funds finally led to his dismissal on April 16, 1937. On November 9, 1935, he switched from the SA to the Schutzstaffel (SS-No. 274.979), in which one year later he was given the rank of SS-Oberführer got awarded. After his dismissal he became a full-time SS leader and worked as a staff leader of the SS Upper Section West in Düsseldorf .

In 1939 Heider retired from the Wehrmacht with the rank of lieutenant in the reserve . During the Second World War was Heider from October 1939, first as acting and in 1940 definitely Chief Constable of Munster . In September 1942 he volunteered for the Waffen SS and then headed the marriage office in the Race and Settlement Main Office (RuSHA). In addition, he became deputy head of the RuSHA in 1944/45. From July 1942 Heider was a lay judge member of the People's Court . Within the Schutzstaffel he rose to SS-Brigadführer in late January 1942 and was promoted to major general of the police in early January 1943.

After the German surrender, he adopted a false name and was taken prisoner by the Soviets. It was not until 1950 that he confessed to his identity and was dismissed as a "minor offender" in an arbitration chamber procedure . He then ran a restaurant in Aerzen and then resumed his work as an electrical engineer before he died at the age of 65 after a serious illness.

See also

literature

  • Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
  • Isabel Heinemann: “Race, Settlement, German Blood”: The Race and Settlement Main Office of the SS and the racial reorganization of Europe . Wallstein, Göttingen 2003 ISBN 3-89244-623-7 .
  • Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , pp. 173f. ( Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia. 22, A, 16 = historical work on Westphalian regional research. Economic and social history group. 16).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Joachim Lilla: Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. f, Münster 2004, p. 173f.
  2. ↑ Isabel Heinemann: "Rasse, Siedlung, deutsches Blut": The SS Race and Settlement Main Office and the racial reorganization of Europe , Göttingen 2003, p. 618
personal data
SURNAME Heider, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heider, Karl Hermann Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP)
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremerhaven
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1960
Place of death Aerzen-Groß Berkel