Paul Hocheisen

Paul Friedrich Karl Hocheisen (born May 27, 1870 in Beilstein (Württemberg) , † December 22, 1944 in Heidenheim an der Brenz ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

Live and act

Hocheisen was born the son of a doctor. He attended high school in Stuttgart . From 1888 to 1892 he studied medicine at the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Akademie for military medical education in Berlin. He was a member of the Pépinière Corps Suevo-Borussia and Saxonia. In 1892 he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . In the same year he passed the state examination and began a career as an active medical officer in the Württemberg military service , where he was employed in regiments 125 , 119 , 123 and 120 and in the War Ministry of the Kingdom of Württemberg . Hocheisen received his license to practice medicine in 1894. In 1899 he passed the state examination for the state medical service in Württemberg. This was followed by training as a specialist in surgery at the Karl-Olga Hospital in Stuttgart and for gynecological diseases at the Charité in Berlin . In 1909 he married.

During the First World War , Hocheisen was in service with the 54th Reserve Division from 1914 to 1918 and was wounded on May 6, 1916 by a shot in the neck and lung. He received the Iron Cross II. And I. Class, the Knight's Cross of the Württemberg Military Merit Order and the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown with Swords. In 1919, Hocheisen joined the Reichswehr , where he first became a division doctor in the 5th Division , then a group doctor in Group Command 2 in Kassel. On April 30, 1929, Hocheisen took his leave of the Reichswehr with the character of a general chief staff doctor.

On August 1, 1929, Hocheisen joined the NSDAP ( membership number 145.508). In 1930 he became a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA). On June 3, 1930, Hocheisen was appointed SA-Reichsarzt, from August of that year in the rank of group leader , and charged with organizing a health and medical system within the SA. From November 1932 he was chief of the SA medical services and at the same time chief of the medical services department in the supreme SA leadership . In April 1933 he was promoted to SA-Obergruppenführer .

In the Reichstag elections of July 1932 high iron was as a candidate of the Nazi Party for the constituency 28 (Dresden-Bautzen) in the Reichstag voted, of which he was subsequently without interruption until his death in December 1944th From March 1933 Hocheisen represented constituency 29 (Leipzig), then from March 1936 to December 1944 constituency 15 (East Hanover).

Period of National Socialism (1933 to 1944)

In May 1933, Hocheisen was appointed representative of the Reich Minister of the Interior at the office of the Commissioner for Voluntary Nursing. In this function he led the negotiations in the Reich government for a new statute of the German Red Cross (DRK), the revision of which was decided at an extraordinary general meeting on June 8, 1933.

On November 1, 1933, Hocheisen was appointed inspector general of the sanitary system of the SA. On December 2, 1933, he was appointed Vice President of the DRK. In January 1934 he was appointed Deputy Reich Commissioner for Voluntary Nursing. In this capacity, high iron forced the DC circuit of the institution in the National Socialist sense.

Horst Seithe sees the appointment of Hocheisen as DRK Vice President primarily as a strengthening of the position of power of Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick : “With Dr. The Reich Minister of the Interior Frick had also promoted a person of trust to an important position from which the ministry and party could influence the DRK in their favor. "

In the course of 1934, Hocheisen was able to prevail over the President of the DRK, Carl Eduard von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha . He de facto took over control of the official business of the DRK President, while his "superior" Coburg, as the nominal President, only had representative tasks. After the events of the so-called Röhm Putsch and the associated widespread disempowerment of the SA, Hocheisen lost some of his authority. Nevertheless, he was able to continue his work as actually managing president of the DRK until the end of 1936.

In December 1936, Hocheisen had to vacate his post in favor of an SS candidate, Ernst-Robert Grawitz . He resigned as President of the German Red Cross on January 1, after Frick had previously induced him to submit an application to him, Frick, in which he, Hocheisen, asked Frick to release him from his post. The purpose of this cumbersome maneuver was to create the impression that the resignation would be voluntary and at the request of Hocheis. Officially, Hocheisen's resignation was justified by the fact that he had asked for his removal from office because of the consequences of a serious accident or for health reasons. To compensate for the loss of his office, Hocheisen was appointed honorary president of the DRK on December 18, 1936 in a certificate signed by Hitler.

Fonts

The muscular sense of the blind , Berlin 1892.
The intravenous collargol injections for puerperal fever , Berlin 1906.

literature

Rudolph Bauer : Hocheisen, Paul , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , p. 256
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. 251 f .
Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , pp. 160-161.

Web links

Paul Hocheisen in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

↑ Markus Wicke: SS and DRK. The Presidium of the German Red Cross under National Socialism , 2002, p. 20.
↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 68/245; 67/35
^ Thomas Balistier / Bernd Jürgen Warneken: violence and order. Calculus and fascination of the SA , 1989, p. 50.
↑ Horst Seithe: The German Red Cross in the Third Reich (1933-1939). The transformation of the DRK from a civil welfare association to a National Socialist medical organization. Münster (Westphalia), Univ., Diss., 1993, p. 60 f. Quoted in: Markus Wicke: SS and DRK , 2002, p. 20.
↑ Markus Wicke: SS and DRK , 2002, pp. 20 and 34f.

personal data
SURNAME	Hocheisen, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hocheisen, Paul Friedrich Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German physician, Reich doctor of the SA and politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	May 27, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH	Beilstein (Württemberg)
DATE OF DEATH	December 22, 1944
Place of death	Heidenheim an der Brenz

[1] Markus Wicke: SS and DRK. The Presidium of the German Red Cross under National Socialism , 2002, p. 20.

[2] Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 68/245; 67/35

[3] Thomas Balistier / Bernd Jürgen Warneken: violence and order. Calculus and fascination of the SA , 1989, p. 50.

[4] Horst Seithe: The German Red Cross in the Third Reich (1933-1939). The transformation of the DRK from a civil welfare association to a National Socialist medical organization. Münster (Westphalia), Univ., Diss., 1993, p. 60 f. Quoted in: Markus Wicke: SS and DRK , 2002, p. 20.

[5] Markus Wicke: SS and DRK , 2002, pp. 20 and 34f.