Richard Mann

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Richard Mann

Richard Johannes Mann (born April 27, 1893 in Rodalben , † October 15, 1960 in Pirmasens ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

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The son of a last manufacturer attended elementary school and, until 1909, middle school in Pirmasens. He was then trained as a clerk in the shoe industry. From 1915 to 1918 he took part in the First World War, in which he was wounded twice. In 1920 Mann married; the marriage resulted in 5 children.

After 1918, Mann became a member of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund . In October 1922 he joined the NSDAP for the first time. Mann is said to have been involved in the storming of the Pirmasens district office in February 1924 , which was occupied by Palatinate separatists . After the attack, he fled to Munich and returned to Pirmasens in March 1924. There he became the local group leader of the NSDAP, which was banned at the time, and joined the Sturmabteilung (SA), which was also banned, on June 1, 1924 . After the re-admission of the NSDAP he officially became a party member in October 1925 (membership number 23.216). From 1925 to 1931 he was district manager for Pirmasens. Between 1925 and 1929 he was fined several times for Nazi activity. Mann's influential position within the Palatinate NSDAP at that time is described as that of a "secondary Gauleiter"; at his instigation, Josef Bürckel was elected Gauleiter for the Palatinate in March 1926 . During the Weimar Republic, man was unemployed for a long time. Later he was partially unable to earn his living as an independent sales representative in Pirmasens, so the party took over his rent.

From 1929 to 1935, Mann was second mayor of Pirmasens; from 1928 to 1934 he was a member of the district assembly of Pirmasens. In 1931 he was deposed as local group leader by Gauleiter Bürckel, as he is said to have partially suppressed a party donation and not to have paid significant billing debts. Mann's successor as local group leader was his rival Rudolf Ramm . Mann continued to enjoy great support within the Pirmasens SA and SS. Mann's attempt to force Bürckel to resign failed in September 1931.

At the beginning of November 1931, Mann learned that a group of his internal party opponents, including Fritz Berni , had been in possession of explosive devices. Mann, who as mayor was the head of the Pirmasens police, did not file a complaint, but passed on the information within the party. In the course of the subsequent investigations, Berni was temporarily excluded. That of the imperial Uschla demanded expulsion from the party 's first opposed Gauleiter Bürckel, who apparently feared that man could hurt the party by revelations. In another investigation led by Robert Ley , Mann retracted his allegations in January 1932 and was able to prevent his exclusion from the party.

In 1935, Mann was appointed district leader of Pirmasens; since October 1936 he was in the service of the NSDAP full-time. After being unsuccessful in the Reichstag elections on March 29, 1936 and on 10 April 1938 had a candidate, bearded man on 13 June 1938 at the replacement candidate for the deceased deputies Fritz Hess as MP for the constituency 27 (Rheinpfalz-Saar) in the Reichstag a , to which he belonged until the end of the Nazi regime in spring 1945. In the SA, Mann was last promoted to Standartenführer on November 9, 1943 .

At the end of the Second World War , Mann was arrested on March 21, 1945 and was held in French or American internment custody under automatic arrest until December 1949. For crimes against humanity , Mann was sentenced in July 1948 and November 1949 by the Zweibrücken Regional Court to three and two years' imprisonment, respectively, which were deemed to have been served by internment. The subject of the proceedings was the mistreatment of Jews during the November pogroms in 1938 . In a third trial, Mann was acquitted in August 1950 for lack of evidence on charges of directing the expulsion of Jews across the French border on November 10, 1938. According to other sources, Mann is said to have behaved moderately during the pogroms. In the arbitration chamber proceedings , man was classified as a "minor offender".

literature

  • Franz Maier: Biographical organization manual of the NSDAP and its divisions in the area of ​​today's state of Rhineland-Palatinate . (= Publications of the Commission of the State Parliament for the History of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate , Volume 28) Hase & Koehler, Mainz 2007, ISBN 3-7758-1407-8 , pp. 341–343.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Niels Weise: Eicke. An SS career between a mental hospital, concentration camp system and Waffen-SS. Schöningh, Paderborn 2013, ISBN 978-3-506-77705-8 , p. 55.
  2. ^ Weise, Eicke , pp. 58f.
  3. ↑ Maier, Organization Handbook , p. 341.
  4. ^ Weise, Eicke , pp. 58f, 104.
  5. ↑ Weise, Eicke , pp. 109–113.
  6. ↑ Maier, Organization Handbook , p. 343.
  7. ^ Weise, Eicke , p. 104, referring to: Roland Paul (arr.): Alfred Schwerin. From Dachau to Basel. Memories of a Palatinate Jew from the years 1938 to 1940. Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore, Kaiserslautern 2003, ISBN 3-927754-45-5 , p. 29.
personal data
SURNAME Man, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mann, Richard Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Rodalben
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1960
Place of death Pirmasens