Max Schümann

Max Schümann (born December 26, 1909 in Kiel , † June 26, 1945 in Leer ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

biography

Schümann attended schools in Wilhelmshaven and Oldenburg and learned a locksmith's trade. He did not undertake an intended engineering degree, but decided to work as a Reichsbahn official in Wilhelmshaven. In 1926 he became a member of the SA and in 1928 of the NSDAP. In 1933 he was active in the National Socialist Company Cell Organization (NSBO) and the German Labor Front (DAF), the unified association of employees and employers of the National Socialists . He left the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1934 to become a full-time functionary of the DAF. From 1935 he was also active in the district leadership of the NSDAP in Leer. During the Second World War he served as a soldier in France in 1940 and in the Netherlands in 1941. In 1941 he was wounded as a lieutenant in the war against the Soviet Union in Sevastopol .

The Gauleiter of the Gaus Weser-Ems Carl Röver died on May 15, 1942. Paul Wegener was appointed his successor , who deposed the Bremen NS district leader Bernhard Blanke and instead gave the office to Schümann. Especially in 1945 he was a fanatical perseverance politician, who threatened from his "command post" in bunker B 32 on Parkallee the right to stand for absence at work. On April 25, 1945 he fled towards Bremen-Nord , then to Oldenburg and East Friesland , where he went underground. He poisoned himself in June 1945 in Leer.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Herbert Schwarzwälder: History of the Hanseatic City of Bremen , Vol. IV. Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-283-7 .