Otto Recknagel

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Otto Recknagel

Otto Recknagel (born April 30, 1897 in Steinbach-Hallenberg ; † January 23, 1983 in Krefeld ) was a businessman and, as a German politician, district administrator and district leader of the Schmalkalden district and a member of the Reichstag for the NSDAP .

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The son of the businessman August Wilhelm Recknagel completed a commercial apprenticeship after attending school. From August 1914 until the end of the war in 1918 he took part in the First World War as a volunteer , in which he achieved the rank of non-commissioned officer and was awarded the Iron Cross, First Class . After his return from the war, Recknagel worked as a businessman in his father's shop in Steinbach-Hallenberg. In 1925 he started his own business and specialized in the manufacture and export of small iron and steel goods as well as sporting goods.

Recknagel belonged to the Young German Order from 1922 to 1924 . In the spring of 1924 he founded the local group of the Völkisch Block or the National Socialist Freedom Party (NSFP) in Steinbach-Hallenberg , both of which were substitute organizations for the NSDAP, which was banned at the time. After the ban was lifted, he joined the NSDAP on April 6, 1925 ( membership number 1.517). From 1925 to 1928 he was a member of the SA , in which he achieved the rank of storm leader. From 1927 to 1932 he was NSDAP district leader for Steinbach-Hallenberg; In 1929 he was elected to the local council of Steinbach-Hallenberg. From 1932 to 1942 he was the district leader there. In August 1942, after repeated conflicts over his church membership, he asked for his release from the office of district leader, which was also complied with.

From 1932 to 1933 Recknagel was a member of the Prussian state parliament . In the elections in March 1933, he entered the communal assembly of Kassel and the provincial assembly of the Hesse-Nassau province for the NSDAP . He then belonged to the National Socialist Reichstag from November 1933 to spring 1945 as a member of constituency 12 (Thuringia).

Recknagel, who was also called "Doppelotto" because of his corpulence, also served from 1937 to 1945 as District Administrator of the district of Herrschaft Schmalkalden .

In the final phase of the Second World War , Recknagel led the Volkssturm in Schmalkalden until February 1945. He settled in the woods on Rennsteig at the beginning of April 1945, but was arrested on April 13, 1945 and remained in American internment until July 1948. After a trial chamber procedure in the Ludwigsburg internment camp , he was denazified as an incriminated person on July 7, 1948 and released from internment, the internment detention was counted towards the sentence. The judgment was upheld in June 1950 on appeal. Due to a pardon by Prime Minister Kurt Georg Kiesinger in May 1962, he was classified as a follower in December 1963 . In Thuringia he was classified as a major war criminal in absentia in October 1947 and sentenced to 15 years in prison by the Meiningen district court in July 1950. After his release from the internment camp in Ludwigsburg, he first lived with a friend in Traisa and from 1957 with one of his sons in Krefeld, where he was listed in the address books as a machinist.

literature

  • 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. 494 .
  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 .
  • Volker Wahl : The hate figure "Doppelotto". On the biography of the Nazi MP, district administrator and district leader Otto Recknagel (1897–1983) in the Schmalkalden district. In: Stefan Gerber , Werner Greiling , Klaus Ries , Tobias Kaiser (eds.): Between city, state and nation: bourgeoisie in Germany. Part 1. Ed .: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-525-30169-2 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 303.
  2. ^ Gerhard König: 100 years of football in Thuringia. 2001, p. 40.
  3. ↑ www.territorial.de:Landkreis Herrschaft Schmalkalden
personal data
SURNAME Recknagel, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR, MdL
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Steinbach-Hallenberg
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1983
Place of death Krefeld