Lenhard Everwien

Lenhard Everwien

Lenhard Everwien (born October 6, 1897 in Hamswehrum , North District ; † October 25, 1971 in Norden (East Friesland) ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and master baker.

Life

After attending primary school, Everwien began training as a baker in 1912. From 1916 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a soldier . From 1923 he worked as a master baker and businessman in Woltzeten . From 1929 to 1931 Everwien sat as an alderman in the Woltzeten community council and joined the NSDAP on April 1, 1930. Just 14 days later he was appointed base leader and on January 15, 1931, deputy to the NSDAP district leader Johann Menso Folkerts . In the same year he was elected mayor of Woltzeten. From May to October 1932 he was chairman of the NSDAP district court.

At the suggestion of Carl Rövers , Gauleiter of the Gaus Weser-Ems from 1929 to 1942, he was appointed district leader by Adolf Hitler and thus the successor to Folkert, who had been dismissed because of his refusal to leave the church. What was previously part-time became a full-time party activity. Lenhard Everwien was responsible for the 28 local NSDAP groups in the north district and the three local groups in northern Germany . As district leader, Everwien took over the "political and ideological education and orientation of political leaders , party members and the population". His powers also included "public and non-public events and actions that ran counter to the objectives of the NSDAP" to prevent. In 1933 Everwien became a member of the North District Council. In 1935 the National Socialist regime issued the German municipal code . It expanded the political influence of the NSDAP district leaders. This also gave Everwien the right to propose people to fill political offices (mayor, councilor, councilor). From 1939 to 1940 Everwien was temporarily district leader of the NSDAP in the district of Emden .

Ruins of the northern synagogue

During the so-called Reichspogromnacht in 1938, the synagogue of the northern Jewish community was burned down under Everwien's leadership . Together with two other SA members, Lenhard Everwien had obtained petrol from a petrol station in northern Germany.

On October 5, 1942, Everwien joined the National Socialist Reichstag in the replacement procedure for the resigned MP Lühr Hogrefe , to which he belonged until the end of the Nazi regime in spring 1945 as a representative of constituency 14 (Weser-Ems).

Everwien's penultimate public appearance was on April 20, 1945. In a speech on the occasion of the Fuehrer's birthday in the fully occupied hall of the Norder Hotel Deutsches Haus, he praised, among other things, the “unchangeable loyalty” of the National Socialists “to the Fuehrer” and concluded his speech with the words: “ The East Frisians - like their ancestors - will fight stubbornly and doggedly, will not be confused by anything until victory is achieved! ”At the time of this address, the Allied forces were already standing at Leer in southern East Frisia . Everwien gave his last public speech on May 2, 1945. The occasion was a memorial service for Adolf Hitler, which took place in the NSDAP district building on the market square in Norder. A few days later he was arrested and detained.

In two trials in 1948 Everwien was sentenced to four years in prison and nine months in prison for denunciation and arson in the Norder synagogue. He was also deprived of his civil rights for a period of four years . The Bielefelder Spruchkammer sentenced him to another prison sentence in 1949 for belonging to a criminal organization , which was offset against his internment.

Publications

• Front newspaper : Der Wall. Emden's greeting to his soldiers. Emden, between 1942 and 1944 (editor)

literature

• Michael Rademacher: The district leaders of the NSDAP in the Gau Weser-Ems . Tectum-Verlag, Marburg 2005, ISBN 3-8288-8848-8 .
• 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 , p. 130.
• Erich Stockhorst : 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . 2nd Edition. Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 .
• Hans Forster jun., Günther Schwickert: North. A district town under the swastika. Documents from the period of tyranny 1933–1945 (Ed. Norder Jungsozialisten, SPD-Ortsverein Norden). Norden 1988, DNB 881206539 .
• Ernst Kienast (ed.): The Greater German Reichstag 1938, fourth electoral period. R. v. Decker's Verlag, G. Schenck, June 1943 edition, Berlin.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bunkermuseum Emden (ed.); Dietrich Janßen: The day after ... 1945 ( Memento of the original from September 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 384 kB). Note 14; Accessed July 25, 2013. 
2. ↑ The data and facts in this section are based - unless otherwise noted - on Hans Forster jun., Günther Schwickert: Norden. A district town under the swastika. Documents from the period of tyranny 1933–1945 (Ed. Norder Jungsozialisten, SPD-Ortsverein Norden). Norden 1988, p. 63 ff.
3. ^ Inge Lüpke-Müller: A region in political upheaval. The democratization process in East Frisia after the Second World War. Aurich 1998, ISBN 3-932206-11-8 , p. 215.
4. ↑ See Forster, Schwickert: Norden. A district town under the swastika. 1988, p. 53 ff.
5. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Emden. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
6. ^ Lina Gödeken: Around the synagogue in the north. The history of the synagogue community since 1866. Aurich 2000, ISBN 3-932206-18-5 , p. 304.
7. ^ Johann Haddinga : Zero Hour. 1944-1948. East Friesland's hardest years. Norden 1988, ISBN 3-922365-76-0 , p. 54.
8. ^ Lüpke-Müller: A region in political upheaval. 1998, p. 215.
9. ^ Lüpke-Müller: A region in political upheaval. 1998, p. 315.
10. ^ Marten Klose: Propaganda from Emden. ( Memento of the original from September 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Emder newspaper. Weekly magazine. No. 68, March 21, 2009, cit. in bunkermuseum.de (PDF; 70 kB; accessed on May 13, 2013).