Karl Kleemann

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Karl Kleemann

Karl August Kleemann (born June 15, 1904 in Kollweiler ; † May 6, 1969 in Bad Dürkheim ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

Life

After attending elementary school in Kollweiler, the son of a mill farmer was trained as a teacher at the preparatory school in Kusel and at the Kaiserslautern teacher training college. Kleemann worked from 1928 to 1932 as an assistant teacher in Alsheim-Gronau and Steinweiler . From 1932 he was appointed teacher, first in Steinweiler, then from 1934 in Landau in the Palatinate . In 1937 he moved to Ludwigshafen am Rhein , where he was appointed main teacher in 1939 . From 1931 he worked full-time for the NSDAP. Kleemann had been married since 1930; the marriage remained childless.

On April 17, 1926, Kleemann founded the NSDAP local group in Kollweiler, of which he became the local group leader and treasurer. His official entry into the NSDAP took place on August 12, 1926 (membership number 42.316). In early 1928 he was district leader in Kirchheimbolanden , then from October 1, 1928 to 1930, local group leader in Alsheim-Gronau. In the early 1930s, as one of the busiest party activists, Kleemann founded a total of eight local groups in Assenheim , Friedelsheim , Deidesheim , Wachenheim an der Weinstrasse , Leistadt , Weisenheim am Berg , Erpolzheim and Ellerstadt . At the same time he was Gauredner and district manager of Bad Dürkheim . From April 16, 1931 to August 14, 1935 he was district and district manager of Landau. He was also district leader of Bergzabern and Germersheim for a short time . From February 1, 1936 he was district leader of Ludwigshafen . In 1936 he became an honorary member of the SA and was later appointed Obersturmbannführer . From March 1936 until the end of the Nazi regime, Kleemann was a member of the National Socialist Reichstag , in which he represented constituency 27 (Rheinpfalz-Saar). He was also a member of the German Congregation .

After the “Anschluss” of Austria , from March 1938 to March 1940, Kleemann was the NSDAP's agent for the city of Vienna at the Reich Commissariat for the reunification of Austria with the German Reich. After the occupation of France in 1940 he became DVG - and from 1943 also NSDAP district leader of the city of Metz and was mayor of the city from October 1940 to November 1944.

In January 1941 Kleemann enlisted in the Wehrmacht , where he was deployed on the Eastern Front. In May 1943 he was released as a lieutenant in the reserve of a tank intelligence unit. In the final phase of the Second World War , Kleemann was Gaustabsamtsleiter of the Gaus Westmark .

In spring 1945 he fled from the threatened occupation, but ultimately surrendered and was interned in Landau from June 12, 1946 to March 18, 1948 . He then settled in Friedelsheim, where he worked as a farm worker until 1950, then as a sales representative until his retirement in 1968. In the denazification process in 1950 he was classified as a minor.

He died in Bad Dürkheim in 1969.

literature

  • Franz Maier: Biographical organization manual of the NSDAP and its structures in the area of ​​today's state of Rhineland-Palatinate (=  publications of the commission of the state parliament for the history of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . No. 28 ). 2nd Edition. v. Hase & Koehler, Mainz, Zarrentin 2009, ISBN 978-3-7758-1408-9 , p. 303-305 .
  • 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. 313 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bad Dürkheim registry office
  2. ↑ a b Michael Schepua: "Socialism of Action" for the "Bulwark in the West": Development and characteristics of National Socialism in the Palatinate . In: Heinz-Günther Borck and Wolfgang Laufer (eds.): Yearbook for West German State History . 25th year. Landesarchivverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz, 1999, ISSN  0170-2025 , p. 569 .
personal data
SURNAME Kleemann, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kleemann, Karl August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Kollweiler
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1969
Place of death Bad Dürkheim