Meinhard Marnitz

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Meinhard Johannes Marnitz (born December 5, 1902 in Uexküll , Livonia Governorate ; † May 6, 1993 ) was a German SA group leader.

Life

Marnitz was the youngest son of Provost Xaver von Marnitz , who is considered a Protestant martyr, and his wife Else, née Berting. In his youth he attended the state high school in Goldingen , the state high school in Birkenruh near Wenden , the private high school Tideboehl in Riga , the city high school in Riga and the Bugenhagen high school in Treptow an der Rega . At the latter institution he received his school-leaving certificate on March 8, 1921.

In the summer of 1919 Marnitz joined the Baltic State Army as a volunteer . From 1921 to 1927 Marnitz studied civil engineering at the Technical University in Danzig . On October 29, 1923 he passed the pre-diploma examination and on May 11, 1927 the main diploma examination. In 1925 and 1926, Marnitz worked as a site manager at Bauindustrie AG in Danzig. From May to October 1927, he worked as a graduate engineer at HH Holzmann AG in Danzig. In October 1927 he got a job as a scientific assistant at the chair for sea and canal construction at the Technical University of Gdansk. In 1930 he received his doctorate there under Friedrich Wilhelm Otto Schule (1868–1941) as a Dr.-Ing. He passed his doctoral examination on March 8, 1930.

In 1934 Marnitz became a full-time SA leader. Promoted to brigad leader in 1935 and thus to the rank of general, he was promoted to SA group leader on January 30, 1942. He was thus one of the youngest men in the SA who ever achieved this rank. According to Bruce Campbell's study of the sociology of the SA, he was one of only four SA group leaders who were too young to have participated in the First World War .

From 1934 to 1945 Marnitz held higher SA positions in Allenstein and Weimar (1938 at the latest). On February 1, 1942, he was appointed leader of the Nordmark SA Group based in Kiel , a position he held until the end of the war (from February 1, 1942 to March 31, 1943 mdFb ; from April 1, 1943 to May 1945 as regular SA leader of the Nordmark group).

On the occasion of the Reichstag elections of April 10, 1938 , Marnitz ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Reichstag on the "List of the Führer for the election of the Greater German Reichstag" .

During the Second World War , Marnitz was a first lieutenant in the sea from 1939 to 1944, in command of a minesweeper. At the end of the Second World War, he was taken prisoner by the British in Kiel , from which he was released in 1948. In the following years he worked as an employee in the construction industry before setting up his own engineering office for construction in 1962.

His first marriage was to Marianne Erna Adelheit Wolf and his second marriage was to Elisabeth Minna Maria Heime .

Fonts

  • About the behavior of silty sand when water flows through it. Danzig 1930 ( dissertation )

literature

  • Bruce Campbell: The SA-Generals and The Rise Of Nazism. 2004. *
  • ALBUM FRATRUM RIGENSIUM No 1310

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b curriculum vitae in his dissertation on the behavior of a silt-containing sand when water flows through it . Gdansk 1930.
  2. ^ 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. 792; Erich Stockhorst : 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Blick und bild Verlag, Velbert and Kettwig 1967, p. 285.
  3. ↑ Personal details of the son C. Meinhard von Marnitz on his website; accessed on July 16, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Marnitz, Meinhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marnitz, Meinhard Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SA leader
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Uexkull
DATE OF DEATH 20th century