Ludolf Haase

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Ludolf Haase (1926), NSDAP party badge on the lapel

Ludolf Haase (born January 6, 1898 in Hanover ; † October 3, 1972 ) was NSDAP Gauleiter of the Hanover-South district from 1925 to 1928 .

Life

After attending elementary school and high school, Haase studied medicine at the University of Göttingen and was admitted to the doctorate without a doctorate in 1927; however, “no medical activity can be proven”. In 1921 he took over the board of directors of the local branch of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund in Göttingen and in 1922 founded the first local branch of the NSDAP in Göttingen from various ethnic-anti-Semitic associations. According to his own statements, reading the demands of Gustav Stilles in his 1919 book Battle Against Judaism opened his eyes to his ethnic anti-Semitic commitment .

Haase was always personally devoted to Adolf Hitler , who received him on May 26 and 27, 1924 while he was imprisoned in the Landsberg Fortress, regardless of the tendencies towards division and dissolution of the early National Socialist movement . From then on, there was a continuous connection to Hitler through Haase's friend, the student Hermann Fobke , who was also imprisoned in Landsberg as a member of the " Adolf Hitler Striker ".

Gauleiter Hannover-Süd of the NSDAP

In 1925 Haase advanced to the Göttingen district leader of the NSDAP and served as NS-Gauleiter Hannover-Süd from March 1925 to July 1928. Under Haase's leadership, according to the historian Hans-Jürgen Döscher , “the local groups in Hanover and Göttingen developed into the most active and largest bases of the National Socialists in Lower Saxony”. After visiting Haase in Hanover, Joseph Goebbels noted in his diary on September 20, 1925: “Consistent, radical intelligentsia. Cold, sober, without charm. You don't love him, you respect him. ”Haase belonged to the working group of northwest German Gauleiter initiated by Gregor Strasser . At the founding meeting of the working group in September 1925, he came out as a vehement opponent of the participation of National Socialists in the elections, a position that he wanted to enforce even against instructions from the party leadership.

In March 1927 Haase published basic information on National Socialist domestic and Jewish policy in the Völkischer Beobachter :

“Everything will be ruthlessly broken down that is able to disadvantage German people, whose well-being is at the center of all thought. The end of alien blood supply is brought about by the elimination of Judaism and alien laws. The fight against bacterial damage through popular epidemics, which is not being waged at all today, has to start with full force, because racial hygiene naturally does not exist in the current state of the moneybag. It is even more brutal to exterminate every form of an international . "

After he had already relinquished the management of the district in July 1928, he withdrew completely from direct party work in 1933 because of the consequences of a head injury that he had suffered in 1924 during a battle in the hall with Social Democrats.

Speaker Herbert Backes in the Reich Ministry of Nutrition

During the Second World War Haase worked as a personal assistant to the State Secretary and SS-Obergruppenführer Herbert Backe in the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture. Backe and Haase knew each other from the common " fighting time " of the early NSDAP in Göttingen. In 1942 Haase wrote a memorandum for Backe, who was now entrusted by Hitler in place of Walther Darrés with the management of the ministry, in which he called for the " Germanization " of the "wide spaces" in the east to "achieve freedom from food" . The German peasantry is said to be the "ever richer, flowing source of blood and health for Germans". A doubling of the Germans and their increase to the 200 million limit at the end of the century is realistic, so that "the Volga would not be the border of Germanness, but electricity of Germanness!" In this position he spoke to district farmers leaders at the Reichsschule Süd in Walding near Linz. The Reichsschule Süd was run by the writer Karl Itzinger.

Also in 1942 his dissertation “On the acrocephalic syndrome”, which was only accepted by the Medical Faculty of the University of Göttingen in 1941, was published. In it, Haase examines malformations of people with " tower-headed skull formation " and "not divorced fingers". In his dissertation he calls for their sterilization due to the “consistently severe inferiority”.

post war period

After the war, Haase practiced as a doctor in the Hanover area from autumn 1945, first in Dedensen, then in Wunstorf. In April 1949, the “Denazification Main Committee for Special Professions” of the city of Hanover classified him in Category IV (fellow travelers). The reasoning stated that the negotiation had shown that Haase was "an idealist who originally agreed to the party, but who not only rejected it in decisive lines of thought, but also fought it".

The honorary citizenship of the city of Göttingen , granted on February 7, 1937 with the note "Founder of the NSDAP Göttingen", was revoked on August 25, 1952.

Fonts

  • Ludolf Haase: Uprising in Lower Saxony. The struggle of the NSDAP. 1st half volume 1921 (without location). 2. Improved and increased transcription in 1924 (without location information), duplicated manuscript in typescript (manuscript department of the Lower Saxony State and University Library in Göttingen).

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Döscher: "Fight against Judaism". Gustav Stille 1845–1920. Anti-Semite in the German Empire . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-90-1 , pp. 87-96.
  • Hans-Jürgen Döscher : Haase, Ludolf , in: Handbuch des Antisemitismus , Volume 2/1, 2009, p. 321f.
  • Cornelia Wegeler: "... we say from the international scholarly republic". Classical Studies and National Socialism. The Göttingen Institute for Classical Studies 1921–1962 . Böhlau, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-205-05212-9 , especially pp. 72–83.
  • Culture Department of the City of Göttingen (Ed.): Göttingen under the swastika. National Socialist everyday life in a German city. Texts and materials. Göttingen 1983.

Web links

Commons : Ludolf Haase  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Hans-Jürgen Döscher: "Fight against Judaism". Gustav Stille 1845–1920. Anti-Semite in the German Empire . Metropol, Berlin 2008, p. 88 (Döscher gives in note 1 the register of residents of the city of Wunstorf as evidence of Haase's death date); Rüdiger Hachtmann: Science Management in the "Third Reich" History of the General Administration of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society , Vol. 2. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2007, p. 980, writes there "Haase (1898-1986)", but gives no evidence.
  2. a b Hans-Jürgen Döscher: "Kampf gegen das Judenthum" , p. 87.
  3. Uwe Lohalm: Völkischer Radikalismus: The history of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutz-Bund. 1919-1923 . Leibniz-Verlag, Hamburg 1970, p. 324. ISBN 3-87473-000-X .
  4. ^ Rüdiger Hachtmann: Science Management in the Third Reich. History of the General Administration of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society , Vol. 2. Göttingen 2007, p. 980.
  5. a b Hans-Jürgen Döscher: "Kampf gegen das Judenthum" , p. 90.
  6. Martin Döring: "Parliamentary arm of the movement." The National Socialists in the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic. (= Contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties, Volume 130) Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5237-4 , pp. 58–60.
  7. ^ Völkischer Beobachter, March 15, 1927, p. 4, cited above. according to Hans-Jürgen Döscher: "Fight against Judaism" , p. 92.
  8. Hans-Jürgen Döscher: "Kampf gegen das Judenthum" , p. 90 u. P. 92.
  9. ^ A b Hans-Jürgen Döscher: "Kampf gegen das Judenthum" , p. 94.
  10. Ludolf Haase: About the syndrome of acrocephalosyndactyly , med. Diss., Göttingen 1941; printed under the same title, in: Publications from constitutional and military pathology . Issue 51, Jena 1941, p. 1 u. P. 34. Quoted from: Hans-Jürgen Döscher: “Kampf gegen das Judenthum” , p. 93.
  11. Hans-Jürgen Döscher: "Kampf gegen das Judenthum" , p. 95.