Peter Stangier

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Peter Stangier

Peter Heinrich Stangier (born April 7, 1898 in Gevelsberg , † December 12, 1962 in Münster ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

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After attending elementary school learned Stangier the locksmith . In addition, he was trained at the technical college for craft and trade. From January 1918 he briefly took part in the First World War. Around 1921 he came to the Gelsenkirchen area, where he accepted a job as a colliery fitter at the Ewald 3/4 colliery. According to his own statements, Stangier first joined the NSDAP in March 1923. Due to political activity he was expelled in May 1924 during the French occupation . He rejoined the NSDAP after the party was banned in early August 1925 ( membership number 16.676). First he led the local group Resse until 1926 and helped to build the NSDAP in Gelsenkirchen . From 1926 on, he took on leading tasks as SA leader in various formations of this paramilitary Nazi organization. From 1931 to 1933 he was head of the district organization in the Westphalia-North district . In 1932 he was elected to the Prussian Landtag , to which he belonged until the corporation was dissolved in October 1933.

After the National Socialist " seizure of power " in the spring of 1933, Stangier worked primarily as a city ​​councilor in Gelsenkirchen , where he was appointed to the city council: in the city administration, he was assigned the police administration and the city operations as well as areas of cultural administration.

From November 1933 until the end of Nazi rule in May 1945, Stangier was a member of the National Socialist Reichstag as a member of constituency 17 (North Westphalia). From 1931 to 1945 he was deputy to Alfred Meyer , Gauleiter of Westphalia-North. In the SA , Stangier reached the rank of brigade leader at the end of January 1941. In addition, he took over offices as Prussian State Council and member of the district committee.

On May 10, 1945, Stangier was interned as a war criminal by the Americans . On 10/11 On May 1st, 1948, Stangier was sentenced to two years in prison by the Recklinghausen ruling chamber for belonging to the Nazi leadership corps, although the prosecutor's application was for four years in prison. The detention was considered served because of the internment. On November 2 of the same year, a revision of the judgment was rejected. Stangier then lived in Münster until his death in 1962.

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 .
  • Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , pp. 284f. ( Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia. 22, A, 16 = historical work on Westphalian state research. Economic and social history group. 16)

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Individual evidence

  1. Stefan Goch : A return to here is no longer to be expected , 1999, p. 47.
  2. ^ Stefan Goch: Social Democratic Workers' Movement and Worker Culture in the Ruhr Area , 1990, p. 347.
  3. ^ A b c Joachim Lilla: Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. , Münster 2004, pp. 284f.
  4. Christoph Schmidt: National Socialist Cultural Policy in the Gau Westfalen-Nord , 2002, p. 114.