Paul Dahm

Paul Dahm

Paul Dahm (born June 6, 1904 in Langerfeld , † June 28, 1974 in Remscheid ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ). He was a member of the Reichstag as well as police area leader in Banja Luka and Esseg and was promoted to SS-Standartenführer on January 30, 1938 .

Life

Dahm attended elementary school from 1911 to 1920 and then the upper secondary school in Barmen , which he finished in 1920 with the upper secondary qualification. He began an apprenticeship as a dental technician that lasted until 1923, after which he became a state-certified dentist. He worked as an assistant in a Barmer practice until 1924 and then took over his father's practice, which he continued until March 31, 1936.

From 1920 to 1922 Dahm belonged to the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund , then until 1923 to the Ehrhardt Marine Brigade . On March 26, 1923 he was accepted into the Munich local group of the NSDAP . After joining the party, he was SA leader in Langerfeld until March 1923. After the party ban was lifted, he rejoined the NSDAP on December 15, 1925 under membership number 25.343 and then worked again as SA leader in Langerfeld until 1926 . He retired from active SA service in 1926 for health reasons. On October 27, 1930, he transferred from the SA to the SS and remained under membership number until his final admission. 5,792 SS candidates on March 2, 1931. From the beginning of 1934 he led first the II. Sturmbann and from April 1936 the I. Sturmbann of the 20th SS Standard. From 1937 until the end of the war he was the leader of the 20th SS Standard in Düsseldorf . In Wuppertal he was a city councilor of the NSDAP from March 12, 1933 to 1934, and in 1937 he was finally a councilor in Düsseldorf. In the Düsseldorf Gau he became an honorary judge of the DAF . After he was unsuccessfully proposed for a seat in the Reichstag in April 1938, he moved to the Reichstag on August 1, 1940 for the late MP Fritz Weitzel (constituency 22 - Düsseldorf-Ost).

From autumn 1939 to December 1940 he headed the supplementary office in Düsseldorf of the supplementary office of the Waffen SS . He then headed the supplementary office in Oslo until December 1941 . From 1942 he was deployed at the front as SS-Sturmbannführer of the Waffen-SS. From the beginning of August 1943 to April 1945 he was deployed as a police area leader in Banja-Luka and on September 20, 1944, he also took over the office of police area leader Esseg for the deceased Ferdinand von Sammern-Frankenegg .

In April 1945 he was captured by the Americans in Austria , from which he was able to escape before he was extradited to Yugoslavia . In the early 1950s, a denazification process took place in Wuppertal. He eventually returned to practice as a dentist and died in 1974.

literature

• Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).
• 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. 85-86 .
• E. Kienast (ed.): The Greater German Reichstag 1938, IV. Electoral period, R. v. Decker's Verlag, G. Schenck, June 1943 edition, Berlin