Otto Hamkens

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Peter Hermann Otto Hamkens (born December 15, 1887 in the Hoyerswort mansion on Eiderstedt ; † 1969 ) was a German lawyer, farmer and National Socialist politician.

Hamkens was the youngest of five siblings. One of his brothers was the later NS government president of Schleswig-Holstein, Wilhelm Hamkens .

Otto Hamkens put 1907 on the school in Husum his high school , and then studied law in Lausanne (one semester) and Munich . In 1911/12 he represented his brother on his parents' farm. In 1912 he did military service in Bavaria. He took part in the First World War with the 1st field artillery regiment "Prinzregent Luitpold" . He was wounded in October 1918 and retired from the army with the rank of first lieutenant in the reserve. After the war he completed his studies in Kiel.

From 1922 Hamkens managed his father's property. In 1926 he married Gönna Hamkens. He was involved in local politics and in 1925 became a member of the Eiderstedter district council. As one of the first district council members he joined the NSDAP on December 1, 1928 ( membership number 106.096) and in 1929 was appointed district leader of the party in the former district of Eiderstedt . In the course of the economic crisis , he opened a law practice on July 1, 1929 as a second professional pillar. At the end of 1929 he became leader of the NSDAP faction in the Schleswig-Holstein provincial parliament . After the National Socialist " seizure of power " he was appointed district administrator of Husum-Eiderstedt and from October 1933 of Eiderstedt. He gave up this office in 1938. In 1938 he was unsuccessfully nominated in the “List of the Führer for the election of the Greater German Reichstag ”. In 1943 he lost the office of district leader.

literature

  • Bärbel Holtz: The minutes of the Prussian State Ministry (= Acta borussica, Volume 12 / II). Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 2001, ISBN 3-487-12704-0 , p. 582.
  • Christian M. Sörensen: Political development and rise of the NSDAP in the Husum and Eiderstedt districts, 1918–1933 . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1995.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Who is not identical with the leader of the rural people movement Wilhelm Hamkens . The "Landvolk-Hamkens" was later deputy district administrator of the former Eiderstedt district, for a short time in 1950.
personal data
SURNAME Hamkens, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hamkens, Peter Hermann Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German District Administrator (NSDAP)
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Hoyer's word
DATE OF DEATH 1969