Kurt Thiele

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Kurt Thiele

Kurt Thiele (born July 29, 1896 in Braunschweig , † June 13, 1969 in Oldenburg ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

biography

education and profession

Thiele attended elementary school and the humanistic high school Martino-Katharineum in Braunschweig. From August 1914 he took part in the First World War with the 92nd Infantry Regiment . From October to November 1914 he was a member of the Reserve Infantry Regiment 208 in Flanders . From August 1915 to November 1916 he was used with the Reserve Regiment 269 in Russia . Most recently, Thiele, who had been appointed lieutenant in the reserve on January 27, 1916, fought from November 1916 to July 1918 with Storm Battalion 12. During the war, Thiele was awarded the Iron Cross and wounded three times, once so badly that one of his legs had to be amputated from the thigh down. In 1921 Thiele took part in the fighting in Upper Silesia with thirty recruited volunteers.

From 1921 to 1923 Thiele studied law at the University of Göttingen . He broke off his studies in autumn 1923. He then worked from 1923 to 1930 as a commercial clerk at Norddeutscher Lloyd in Bremerhaven and Bremen.

Nazi politician

In 1923 Thiele joined the NSDAP. During the NSDAP's prohibition period from 1923 to 1925, he took part in the establishment of substitute organizations for the banned party, particularly in Göttingen. In 1925 Thiele rejoined the party and founded a local branch of the NSDAP in Bremerhaven-Wesermünde. From 1929 to spring 1932 he was district leader of the NSDAP for the Bremen district. In spring 1932 he founded the NSDAP maritime department . He was the founder and chairman of the board of directors of the Bremer Zeitung , which appeared from January 1931 to October 1933. He was also the editor of the monthly Der deutsche Seemann , which he founded and which appeared until the summer of 1933.

In November 1930 Thiele became a member of the Bremen citizenship , in which he held the office of chairman of the NSDAP parliamentary group until the summer of 1932. From the spring of 1933 until the dissolution of the state parliaments, Thiele was President of the Citizenship. He was then a member of the Reichstag from September 1930 to 1945 for constituency 14 (Weser-Ems).

In autumn 1933 Thiele was appointed Bremen State Councilor and in 1934 chairman of the district court. In the following years he officiated as district inspector for the district of Bremen, head of the mobilization department there and district manager for race policy and ethnicity issues in the Weser-Ems district. In 1942 he became the district administrator of the district Oldenburg appointed.

After the war, Thiele was arrested by the Allies. Thiele was convicted on April 25, 1949 in an arbitration chamber. Thiele's estate is now kept in the Bremen State Archives.

Fonts

  • Michael Rademacher (Ed.): Kurt Thiele. Notes and memories of the "Gauleiter Seefahrt" about the early days of the NSDAP in Bremen. A source volume on the history of the NSDAP in Bremen and Bremerhaven. Vechta 2000.

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personal data
SURNAME Thiele, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdBB, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1969
Place of death Oldenburg (Oldenburg)