Philipp Dinkel

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Philipp Dinkel (born December 20, 1894 in Eschelbronn ; † August 13, 1987 there ) was a German Nazi functionary and during the Nazi era Gauamtsleiter Baden . After the war he was mayor of his hometown.

Life

Spelled was the son of a farmer. He attended secondary school in Neckarbischofsheim and Sinsheim and then completed an apprenticeship in banking . He took part in the First World War as a war volunteer and was taken prisoner by the French in 1915, from which he was released in 1920. He then worked as a bank clerk in Heidelberg until 1925 and was then unemployed. From this point on he began to be active as a National Socialist. He joined the SA in 1925 and was one of the founding members of the NSDAP local group in Heidelberg ( membership number 23,959). In 1929 he switched from the SA to the SS (SS No. 1,869), where he rose to SS-Sturmbannführer in April 1941 . From 1930 he was in Heidelberg city councilor , councilor from 1933 and belonged to the Board of Directors of the local savings bank and the tram companies to. In 1930 he became managing director of the Heidelberg local branch of the NSDAP and from 1931 held the position of district and district propaganda leader.

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , Dinkel became district leader in Heidelberg in 1933 . In 1934 he also succeeded Fritz Argus as district manager of the National Socialist People's Welfare in the Baden district and held this position until 1945. He ran unsuccessfully for the 1938 Reichstag election .

After the end of World War II he was in Allied internment . After his release, he worked as an accountant in a furniture company. Dinkel was elected mayor of Eschelbronn in 1954. In the same year he was the initiator and founding member of the local Heimat- und Verkehrsverein .

For the reports from municipalities about the war events in 1945 and the extent of the destruction in World War II , a questionnaire campaign by the State Statistical Office of Baden-Württemberg , he reported on November 21, 1960 "nil report", which should express that in Eschelbronn no or only minor destruction had taken place or there were no records or writings about it.

In 1962 Dinkel was confirmed in office as mayor for the period until 1972, but resigned in 1970 due to age.

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Web links

Commons : Philipp Dinkel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 112.
  2. a b c d e Rainer Bookhagen: The Protestant child care and the inner mission in the time of National Socialism . Volume 1: 1933 to 1937: Mobilization of the Communities , Göttingen 1998, p. 544.
  3. a b Excerpt from the seniority list of the SS on www.dws-xip.pl
  4. Erich Stockhorst: 5000 heads - who was what in the Third Reich . Blick + Bild Verlag, 1967, p. 106.
  5. 50 years of the Heimat- und Verkehrsverein, 2004
  6. Eschelbronn - German Digital Library. Accessed December 31, 2017 .
  7. Reports from communities on the war events in 1945 and the extent of the destruction in World War II (inventory) - German Digital Library. Accessed December 31, 2017 .