Otto Bernhard Clausen

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Otto Bernhard Clausen (born May 31, 1906 in Tarup ; † February 13, 1982 in Flensburg ) was a German politician and district leader of the NSDAP in Lübeck .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1925 and studying mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Hanover , Clausen completed an apprenticeship as a gardener and took over the tree nursery in Tarup near Flensburg from him after his father's death in 1932 .

time of the nationalsocialism

Clausen became a member of the NSDAP in 1929 (membership number 169.281). He was briefly a member of the Young German Order and the SA . In the SS (membership number 3,399) he rose to the position of Sturmbannführer until 1937 . In 1935 Clausen became mayor of his home parish Tarup, and in 1936 he was head of office in Adelby .

On October 1, 1937, when he was only 31 years old, the Oberpräsident Gauleiter of the Province of Schleswig-Holstein, Hinrich Lohse, surprisingly appointed him as an outsider district leader of the NSDAP in Lübeck, which shortly before became a member of the State due to the Greater Hamburg Act and lost state independence of the German Empire had become part of the province of Schleswig-Holstein and so on April 1, 1937, the area of ​​influence of the previously responsible Gauleiter for Mecklenburg Friedrich Hildebrandt was removed. From 1932 to 1937 the NSDAP had “used up” six district leaders in Lübeck in the internal power struggle. During his subsequent political activity in the Third Reich, he leased the tree nursery in Tarup to a gardener who had learned from his father.

Otto Bernhard Clausen was a "weak" district leader, which helped the independence-minded local leadership of the NSDAP in Lübeck, which had provided the Lübeck Senate since it was brought into line in 1933 . Clausen was elected on January 1, 1939 as the successor to the businessman Hans Sellschopp as director of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities in Lübeck. Both under the Sellschopp directorate and under the Clausen directorate, the company's business from 1933 to 1945 was actually carried out by the a. D. Fritz Lange .

Immediately at the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, he volunteered for the Wehrmacht , but initially remained stationed in Lübeck. Walther Schröder and, from 1941, Wilhelm Jabs took over the business as district manager . During the war, Clausen's tree nursery in Tarup remained leased. Since the beginning of the war, tree nurseries had to grow vegetables and young vegetable plants according to an order. Therefore, the cultivation of woody plants and ornamental plants declined sharply. In 1943 Clausen was discharged from the Wehrmacht after being seriously wounded.

surrender

At the end of the war, Clausen agreed with Lübeck's combat commander, Major General Kurt Lottner , other officers of the site, as well as Mayor Otto-Heinrich Drechsler and Police President Walther Schröder , that defending the city against the British armored units advancing from the Elbe would not make sense. The explosive charges placed in the bridges around the city were removed again. The city was therefore occupied on May 2, 1945 largely free of combat and without further damage. Only two days later, the capitulation of all German troops in northwest Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark was signed on behalf of the last Reich President Karl Dönitz , who had left for Flensburg - Mürwik . Clausen went into hiding under the name of "Klaus Fund" at the end of the war. Where exactly he stayed during this time is unproven.

From 1945

The submerged Clausen was arrested in early March 1947 and imprisoned in the former internment camp Neuengamme . He was denazified by the Bergedorf verdict .

In 1951 Clausen took over his business in Tarup again . He passed the gardening master's exam and rebuilt the tree nursery. The trees that were missing after the war had to be re-established. Clausen later became a district gardener in Flensburg and a member of the board of the guild at state level. Clausen closed his business in the summer of 1970. The site was converted into building land. The street name “ Zur Baumschule ” in today's Flensburg district of Tarup still reminds of the former tree nursery .

literature

  • Antjekathrin Graßmann (Ed.): Lübeckische Geschichte . 2nd revised edition. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1989, ISBN 3-7950-3203-2 , p. 705 ff.
  • Sebastian Lehmann: The NSDAP in Lübeck in: "... Schleswig-Holstein ancestral relatives, farewell Friedrich Hildebrandt ..." , p. 131 ff. Digitized
  • Jörg Fligge : Lübeck schools in the "Third Reich": a study on the education system in the Nazi era in the context of developments in the Reich. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2014, especially p. 975 ( Biographical Notes ) ISBN 978-3-7950-5214-0

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register of the registry office Flensburg No. 186/1982.
  2. ^ Flensburg-Online. Flensburg's street names. To the nursery , accessed on: June 14, 2017
  3. ↑ a b List of seniority of the NSDAP Schutzstaffel. As of December 1, 1936, p. 72 f., No. 1635. (JPG; 1.09 MB) In: http://www.dws-xip.pl/reich/biografie/1936/1936.html . Retrieved November 5, 2019 .
  4. ^ Sebastian Lehmann: "... Schleswig-Holstein ancestral relatives, farewell Friedrich Hildebrandt ..." The NSDAP in Lübeck , page 147; Document dated: June 20, 2007, Retrieved on: June 14, 2017
  5. ^ Sebastian Lehmann: "... Schleswig-Holstein ancestral relatives, farewell Friedrich Hildebrandt ..." The NSDAP in Lübeck , page 147; Document dated: June 20, 2007, Retrieved on: June 14, 2017
  6. ↑ Sebastian Lehmann: "... Schleswig-Holstein ancestral relatives, farewell Friedrich Hildebrandt ..." The NSDAP in Lübeck , page 139 f; Document dated: June 20, 2007; accessed on: June 14, 2017
  7. ^ Flensburg-Online. Flensburg's street names. To the nursery , accessed on: June 14, 2017
  8. ^ Sebastian Lehmann: "... Schleswig-Holstein ancestral relatives, farewell Friedrich Hildebrandt ..." The NSDAP in Lübeck , page 147; Document dated: June 20, 2007, Retrieved on: June 14, 2017
  9. ↑ Bernd Dohrendorf: The Influence of National Socialism on the Lübeck Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities. in: Society for the promotion of charitable activities (publisher): 200 years of the society for the promotion of charitable activities in Lübeck 1789-1989. Lübeck 1989. p. 115
  10. ^ Georg Behrens: 175 years of non-profit work , Lübeck 1964, p. 91.
  11. ^ Flensburg-Online. Flensburg's street names. To the nursery , accessed on: June 14, 2017
  12. ^ Gerhard Meyer (Ed.): Lübeck 1945 - Diary extracts from Arthur Geoffrey Dickens . Lübeck 1986, p. 96, ISBN 3-7950-3000-5 .
  13. ^ Graßmann, p. 730.
  14. ↑ The surrender on the Timeloberg (PDF, 16 S .; 455 kB)
  15. ^ Flensburg-Online. Flensburg's street names. To the nursery , accessed on: June 14, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Clausen, Otto Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP) and district leader
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Tarup
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1982
Place of death Flensburg