Philipp Klepp

Philipp Klepp (born March 21, 1894 in Braunschweig ; † June 24, 1958 ) was a German military man , a politician of the Stahlhelm and Hamburg senator .

Life

Klepp joined the 2nd Kurhessian Infantry Regiment No. 82 of the Prussian Army in 1912 as a one-year volunteer . In 1913 he became a lieutenant in the 3rd Lower Alsatian Infantry Regiment No. 138 in Dieuze and fought in this regiment during the First World War as the leader of a machine gun company. At the end of the war he was assigned to the staff of the higher-level 42nd Division . In 1919 he was appointed to the Armistice Commission in Berlin. When the brawn riots broke out in Hamburg , he joined the Freikorps troops under Major General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck with the aim of putting down the unrest. When the Freikorps troops reached Hamburg, calm had long since returned. Nonetheless, the troops occupied the workers 'residential areas and behaved as if they were in occupied enemy territory. In particular, workers and functionaries of workers' organizations were often arrested and mistreated on arbitrary accusations. The Freikorps made generous use of their firearms to strike down "looters and snipers". Most of the anti-republic free corps were taken over into the newly established and militarily equipped barracked Hamburg security police. Klepp was accepted into the Hamburg Security Police as a police chief in 1919, but was released again in 1920 for political reasons. In 1921 Klepp became head of security at Blohm + Voss . He was allowed to continue his education alongside his job, so he studied economics for six semesters. Klepp became head of a Stahlhelm local group in Hamburg in 1928 and head of the Hamburg Stahlhelm Regiment in 1932.

On March 8, 1933, Klepp was elected to the Hamburg Senate under Carl Vincent Krogmann , in a meeting at which the elected members of the KPD could no longer appear. Klepp was responsible for the land lordship department. He headed this area for the following years until at least 1939. Klepp joined the NSDAP on June 24, 1933 and was also accepted into the SA at the same time . There he was appointed honorary leader with the rank of standard leader. When the Senate was reshuffled in September 1933, Klepp left the Senate. His department was subordinated to Alfred Richter , but he was allowed to continue to use the title of Senator.

literature

• Hamburger Fremdblatt and Hamburger Nachrichten of March 8, 1933.
• Rainer Fuhrmann: Distribution of offices in the Senate 1860–1945. Typescript, Hamburg State Archives.