Theodor Oppermann (publisher)

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Theodor Oppermann

Theodor Oppermann (born November 18, 1889 in Minden ; † May 6, 1945 in Neukirchen ) was a German publisher and politician (NSDAP).

Live and act

Oppermann was born the son of a publisher and bookseller. After attending elementary and middle school for several years , he was tutored by private tutors. After graduating from high school, he studied philosophy and economics . After completing his studies, he worked as an editorial volunteer from 1913 to 1914 before taking part in the First World War with the replacement battalion of the 130th Infantry Regiment from the winter of 1914/1915 . After suffering a hemorrhage in the reporting service , Oppermann was released from military service in 1915. When he returned home, he held the post of editor-in-chief of the state newspaper Rudolstadt in 1916/1917 . In addition, he was a volunteer employee of the Prussian War Ministry for the remainder of the war . He was appointed professor by the Schwarzburg government in recognition of his achievements. As such he lived in Hanover in 1933 , Ostfelstrasse 33.

During the civil war months after the November Revolution of 1918 was Oppermann - by its own account in the Reichstag Manual - ". Repeatedly attacked by Marxists" In 1919 he was again in journalism operates, this time as editor of the German Press correspondent , ten affiliated press services as well as the monthly book people and World .

In 1931 Oppermann became a member of the NSDAP and SA . Among other things, he took over the management of the magazine Deutsche Kraftfahrt , the organ of the National Socialist Motor Vehicle Corps (NSKK). In the supreme SA leadership , Oppermann officiated as brigade leader and SA driver inspector north. In addition, he acted as deputy leader of the NSKK corps leadership, in whose direction he led the "Defense and Economy" department.

In the Reichstag election of July 1932 , Oppermann was elected as a candidate of the NSDAP for constituency 22 (Düsseldorf East) in the Reichstag , to which he belonged without interruption until the end of Nazi rule in May 1945. In the almost thirteen years of his term as a member of parliament he was re-elected five times, namely in November 1932, in March and November 1933, in March 1936 and in 1938. The most important parliamentary event in which Oppermann took part during his time as a member was the adoption of the Enabling Act in March 1933, which was passed , among other things, with his vote .

In 1940 Oppermann was promoted to NSKK Obergruppenführer. He became adjutant to the Duke of Saxe-Coburg . On May 6, 1945, he committed suicide while in detention.

After the end of the war, several of the works he published were placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone and in the German Democratic Republic .

Fonts

  • Germany the Germans , 1931
  • Under the storm standers of the NSKK , 1936.

literature

  • Dorothee Hochstetter: Motorization and “Volksgemeinschaft”. The National Socialist Motor Vehicle Corps (NSKK) 1931–1945 , Oldenbourg, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-486-57570-8 .
  • Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 400
  2. ^ Dorothee Hochstetter: Motorization and "Volksgemeinschaft". The National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK) 1931–1945 , Munich 2005, p. 134
  3. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-zeit.html
  4. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-o.html
  5. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit-y.html
  6. ^ Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 443.
personal data
SURNAME Oppermann, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oppermann, KH Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Minden
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1945
Place of death Neukirchen