Peter Gemeinder

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Peter Gemeinder (born January 31, 1891 in Dillhausen , † August 30, 1931 in Mainz ) was a Gauleiter of the NSDAP and a member of the Reichstag .

Community attended elementary school and trained as a bricklayer. He then worked as a bricklayer and as a worker. In 1911 he became a soldier in the 1st Nassau Pioneer Battalion No. 21, took part in World War I from 1914 and was wounded several times. For this he was awarded the Iron Cross Second Class . In 1917 he became a deputy officer. After marrying his wife Marie / Maria, geb. Splendid, on January 1, 1918, Gemeinder returned to Frankfurt, where he worked as a worker and unskilled worker at the Eastern Tax Office .

By becoming a member of the Kampfbund to break interest bondage , together with Jakob Sprenger , Gemeinder became one of the founding members of the Frankfurt NSDAP. Sprenger later handed him the post of local group leader. In 1930 parishes moved into the Wiesbaden municipal parliament and remained a member there until his resignation in 1931. Gemeinder was also very active in the Frankfurt city council and from 1925 chairman of the parliamentary group there, although he gave up the office of city councilor in 1930 at the latest in favor of his Reichstag mandate. His only speech to parliament dealt with economic policy issues and basically just paraphrased Gottfried Feder's economic views, which Gemeinder already knew from the “Kampfbund”.

On January 9, 1931, Gemeinder was appointed Gauleiter of the Hesse-Darmstadt Gau. On August 30 of the same year he died of a heart attack after a rally by the NSDAP in Mainz. Since the convinced National Socialist had been refused a church burial by the Mainz vicar general Philipp Jakob Mayer because of his political views and activities , his party colleagues propagated communities to be martyrs and used him to increase the pressure on the church and church representatives. Many bishops followed the “Mainz direction” and excluded National Socialists from sacraments and sacramentals, which could always cost votes and supporters.

literature

  • Kevin Rick: Peter Gemeinder - Nazi Gauleiter and forgotten martyr? In: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte, Vol. 61, Marburg 2011, pp. 113–135.
  • Barbara Burkardt, Manfred Pult: The municipal parliament of the administrative district of Wiesbaden. 1868–1933 (= Nassau parliamentarians. A biographical handbook. Vol. 2 = Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. Vol. 17 = Publications of the Historical Commission for Nassau. Vol. 71). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-930221-11-X , pp. 98–99.
  • 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. 142.

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personal data
SURNAME Parishioners, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR, Gauleiter
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Dillhausen
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1931
Place of death Mainz