Rudolf Krause (politician, 1894)
Rudolf Krause (born July 30, 1894 in Magdeburg , † after 1945 ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).
Live and act
Empire and Weimar Republic (1894 to 1933)
Krause attended the community school , then the secondary school in Magdeburg until 1911 . After a few years of practical activity, he began training at the arts and crafts school in 1914. From 1914 to 1918 Krause took part in the First World War. In the first years of the war he belonged to the field artillery regiment No. 4, later to the reserve field artillery regiment No. 49. Krause, who was awarded the Iron Cross Second Class, fought with the latter on the Eastern Front (Carpathians, Transylvania, Russia) and then in the West until the end of the war . After the war, Krause resumed his studies at the arts and crafts school. From 1920 Krause earned his living as a merchant in Magdeburg.
In Magdeburg he was one of the founders of the local branch of the NSDAP and in 1923 became a member of the NSDAP. In 1925 he took part in Hitler's first visit to the Herrenkrug in Magdeburg . From 1927 he worked for the NSDAP as a Gau and Reich speaker .
In the general election of September 1930, Krause was a candidate of the Nazi Party for the constituency 10 (Magdeburg) in the Reichstag voted, which it initially belonged to July 1,932th He lost his mandate in the July 1932 election, but was able to regain it in the March 1933 election. From 1932 to 1945 he was district leader of the NSDAP for the Magdeburg district. At that time he lived in Magdeburg at Sternstraße 24.
As a result, he was a member of the Reichstag for the entire duration of the Nazi regime up to May 1945 as a member of his old constituency. The most important parliamentary event in which Rudolf Krause was involved during his time as a member of parliament was the passing of the Enabling Act in March 1933, which was also passed with his vote.
Period of National Socialism (1933 to 1945)
From 1933 Krause played a key role in establishing the National Socialist system of rule in Magdeburg. On March 12, 1933, Krause first became a member of the city parliament, shortly afterwards also a councilor in Magdeburg. In 1935 he gave up the last-mentioned office to take on the role of NSDAP commissioner for the city of Magdeburg. In this capacity he had decisive influence on the Magdeburg city administration until 1939. For example, the decisions of the Mayor of Magdeburg, Fritz Markmann, had to be confirmed by Krause in order to be valid. During these years, Krause was also responsible for making important personnel decisions for the city: he appointed the Magdeburg councilors and the important officials of the NSDAP, SS and SA . In 1936 Krause announced that he had broken communist-social-democratic rule in Magdeburg and turned the city into a National Socialist city. During his reign as "Provincial Prince" Krause took part in the exclusion of Jews in Magdeburg through anti-Semitic hate speech and in 1938 in the implementation of the anti-Jewish November pogroms in the city. With this in mind, Kurt Sabatzky characterized him in his memoirs as “a particularly unpleasant Jew eater”.
With the beginning of the Second World War, Krause's influence in Magdeburg declined significantly, as the Lord Mayor and the city administration now increasingly received their instructions from the Gauleiter and Reich Defense Commissioner Rudolf Jordan . Krause was appointed senior division manager in January 1942. In the NSDAP membership file, Krause was listed as a party member until the end of the war in 1945, but research by the University of Magdeburg shows that it is unclear whether he survived the war.
In 1933 Krause was honored with the Golden Decoration of Honor of the NSDAP, and later also with the Kaiser Otto plaque from the city of Magdeburg.
literature
- Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).
Web links
- Rudolf Krause in the database of members of the Reichstag
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joachim Lilla , Extras in Uniform, Bonn 2004, p. 337.
- ↑ Herrmann AL Degener , Who is it ?, 10th edition, Berlin 1935, p. 880.
- ↑ http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/2123/1627/14/04Ch.2.pdf
- ↑ http://www.uni-magdeburg.de/mbl/Biografien/0642.htm .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krause, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (NSDAP), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1945 |