Otto Gohdes

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Otto Gohdes

Otto Gohdes (born December 17, 1896 in Falkenburg , Pomerania , † March 5, 1945 near Labenz ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

Live and act

Gohdes, son of a farm laborer, attended the community school in Falkenburg from 1903 to 1911 and was then a brick worker. From 1912 to 1914 he was trained at the non-commissioned preschool in Greifenberg in Pomerania . He was then a student at the Treptow non-commissioned officer school on the Rega in the Greifenberg district until the outbreak of World War I. Gohdes was wounded four times during the war (severely disabled) before he was taken prisoner by the French in July 1918, from which he returned in March 1920. Awards that he received during the war included the Iron Cross of both classes, the Wound Badge and the Silver Military Merit Badge III. In Falkenburg he was a platoon leader with the Ehrhardt Brigade from 1920 to 1923 and then until 1930 local group leader at the Stahlhelm . At times he was a member of the border guard in Pomerania and was a member of the Consul organization , the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund , the Bund Wiking and the Schlageter Bund .

In August 1923 Gohdes became a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), which he rejoined in October 1929. According to other sources, he was again working as NSDAP local group leader for Falkenburg in 1925. From July 1930 to March 1933 he was also a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS), in which he reached the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer . From 1922 to 1932 Gohdes worked as a forest clerk at the Prussian state forester's office in Neuhof near Virchow in the Dramburg district . Due to his political activities for the NSDAP, Gohdes was dismissed from civil service in 1932 after disciplinary proceedings had been initiated against him in 1931.

After serving as district leader of the NSDAP for several years, Gohdes was appointed regional organization leader in Pomerania in May 1932. In the Reichstag elections of March 1933 Gohdes was 6 (Pomerania) as a candidate of the Nazi Party for the constituency in the parliament elected. After his mandate was confirmed in November 1933 , 1936 and 1938 , he was a member of the National Socialist Reichstag without interruption until the end of the Nazi regime in May 1945. The most important parliamentary event in which Gohdes took part during his time as a member of parliament was the passing of the Enabling Act in March 1933 - which was also passed with his vote . In 1933 Gohdes was elected to the Prussian state parliament, but did not take up the mandate.

On May 7, 1933, Gohdes became head of training for the NSDAP and the German Labor Front (DAF) in Berlin . His successor as Reich trainer of the NSDAP in the office of Rosenberg and the DAF was Max Frauendorfer in autumn 1934 . From 1933 he was the editor of the NSDAP training letters and was also active as a Reich training speaker. He was a member of the small convent of the DAF and in 1934 head of the training office of the Nazi community Kraft durch Freude (KdF). Gohdes was a member of the Reich Chamber of Labor , the Advisory Board of NSBO (1934) and a member of the board of trustees of the Institute for Economic Research (1934). Gohdes was also the author of political newspaper articles.

From 1935 to 1938 he acted as head of the Reich Main Office and from 1936 to spring 1945 as the commander of the Reich Leader School NS-Ordensburg Krössinsee . From November 1938 he was a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), in which he reached the rank of group leader in November 1944. In addition, Gohdes, who had been married since 1936, was an assessor at the film board of the Reichsfilmkammer. In 1940 Gohdes belonged to a delegation from the NSDAP that traveled to Japan . In 1943 he became chief service officer of the NSDAP. He headed the “Gohdes Office”, the development staff for German administrative staff in the Caucasus .

Gohdes fled the advancing Red Army from the Order Castle and died in fighting on March 5, 1945.

Fonts

  • Training regulations for the political leaders of the NSDAP , slea
  • Marching training AVM , 1935.
  • Germany and the Caucasus , Berlin 1944.
  • Caucasia. Brief introduction with maps , Berlin 1944.

literature

  • Rolf Sawinski: The Ordensburg Krössinsee in Pomerania. Helios Verlag, Aachen 2008, ISBN 978-3-933608-77-2 .
  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , p. 183 f .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Gohdes in the BIORAB database ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2013 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. (Accessed November 26, 2013). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / zhsf.gesis.org
  2. ^ Lilla, extras , p. 183.
  3. ↑ Franz Albert Heinen : Godless, shameless, unscrupulous. For the eastern deployment of the Ordensburg teams. Gaasterland-Verlag, 2007. p. 134.
  4. ↑ Reinhard Bollmus: The office of Rosenberg and its opponents. Studies on the power struggle in the National Socialist system of rule . With a bibliographical essay by Stephan Lehnstaedt . 2nd Edition. Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-486-54501-9 , p. 85 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ Mechthild Leutner / Wolfram Adolphi : Germany and China 1937-1949 , 1998, p. 525.
  6. ^ Christian Gerlach : Calculated murders. The German economic and annihilation policy in Belarus 1941 to 1944. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-930908-54-9 , p. 172 (fn. 280).

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personal data
SURNAME Gohdes, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Falkenburg , Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1945
Place of death Labenz