Karl Minnameyer

Karl Minnameyer

Karl Minnameyer (born November 23, 1891 in Gunzenhausen ; † January 18, 1973 in Georgensgmünd ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and SA leader.

Live and act

After attending school, Minnameyer was trained at the Wassertrüdingen preperand school from 1905 . In 1909 he switched to the teacher training college in Schwabach . From 1912 to 1913 he was a member of the 14th Infantry Regiment . From 1914 he took part in the First World War as a non-commissioned officer and officer aspirant of the 13th Infantry Regiment . In February 1915 he was promoted to lieutenant in the reserve and appointed battalion adjutant II of the 13th Infantry Regiment. In May 1915 he began training as a fighter pilot in Hanover , which was followed by deployment as a pilot at the front from March 1916 . After he was shot down over enemy lines on September 25, 1916, Minnameyer was taken prisoner by the English, from which he claimed to have tried to escape three times.

After his return from captivity, Minnameyer joined the Freikorps Oberland in 1920 , with which he participated in the suppression of the uprising in the Ruhr area . In 1921 he moved to the Bund Reichsflagge . He later joined the NSDAP, for which he took over the management of a local group . In 1928 he became district leader of the National Socialists and SA Standartenführer. In 1929 Minnameyer took over his first public office when he was elected a councilor. In the same year he began to appear as a Gauredner . In addition, at that time he was entrusted with the post of district chief of the party's political department in his home country. In 1931 he was promoted to district leader of the political organization.

After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, Minnameyer was appointed First Mayor of Georgensgmünd . In the same year he was also leader of the NSDAP parliamentary group in the Schwabach district assembly . In November 1934, Minnameyer moved into the Reichstag as a member of constituency 26 (Franconia) , to which he belonged until the end of the Nazi regime in 1945, in the replacement procedure for the resigned MP Robert Bergman .

literature

• Erich Stockhorst : 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . 2nd Edition. Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 .
• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .

Web links

• Karl Minnameyer in the database of members of the Reichstag