Theodor Roeingh

Theodor Roeingh

Theodor Joseph Julius Roeingh (born November 11, 1882 in Beverungen , † 1945 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, in Parchim or in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp) was a German farmer and politician ( center ).

Live and act

Life in the Empire (1882 to 1919)

Roeingh was born the son of an estate owner. Until 1896 he attended elementary school in Beverungen, then a humanistic grammar school in Paderborn . After graduating from high school, which he passed in February 1902, Roeingh completed an agricultural apprenticeship on an estate in Westphalia from 1902 to 1903. He later studied agriculture and economics in Göttingen from 1908 to 1910 . He broke off his studies prematurely. Instead, he managed his father's estate at Beverungen, which he later took over. In 1914 he married.

From 1914 to 1917 Roeingh took part in the First World War, in which he was awarded the Iron Cross .

Weimar Republic (1919 to 1933)

After the war, Roeingh began to become more involved in the Catholic Center Party . In 1919 he became head of the city council in Beverungen. In April 1924 Roeingh became a member of the Prussian Landtag , to which he belonged until February 1930 when he resigned from his seat. The later Chancellor Franz von Papen took over Roeingh's mandate in the replacement procedure.

He also sat in the district council and in the district committee. On February 11, 1930 Roeingh was appointed Ministerialdirektor and entrusted with the management of the domain department of the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture, Domains and Forests . On December 1, 1932, Roeingh was put into temporary retirement as a civil servant (Ministerialdirektor zD).

At the municipal level, Roeingh took on a long series of organizational and political functions: from 1921 he was chairman of the agricultural district association and the forestry association for the Höxter district . From 1927 he was president of the main association for the promotion of the agricultural district of Paderborner Land . In the same year he became chairman of the regional association of the Westphalian state association, Paderborner Land district. In 1928 Roeingh became a member of the supervisory board and the working committee of Deboktulag Berlin. He resigned all of his honorary positions on February 13, 1930. For his work in agriculture he was awarded, among other things, the plaque of the Chamber of Agriculture Westphalia and the Reich Association for the breeding and testing of German warm-blooded animals .

time of the nationalsocialism

In the general election in March 1933 Roeingh was a candidate of the Center for the constituency 17 (Westphalia North) in the Reichstag voted, where he remained until November of the same year. The most important parliamentary event in which Roeingh was involved during his time as a member of parliament was the passage of the Enabling Act in March 1933, which was also passed with Roeingh's vote.

In July 1933, Roeingh lost his pension due to the law to restore the civil service . Section 2 of the law offered the possibility of withdrawing pensions from civil servants who had been hired since November 1918. Since Roeingh had passed neither an academic nor a state exam, he lacked the necessary or customary previous education required by law. According to contradicting statements, he received from July 1933 or from July 1938 a pardon pension of 230, later of 250 Reichsmarks . During the Nazi era , Roeingh earned his living as a sales representative for church supplies, such as church candles and mass wine , and the sale of materials for religious houses, then as an employee for the Schwedt hail insurance company and a Paderborn coal and building materials business. In 1942 he was forced to become a farmer again.

In August 1944, Roeingh was arrested by the Secret State Police as part of the Operation Grid and initially held in the Gestapo prison in Bielefeld-Schildesche . Presumably from mid-January 1945 he was in Sachsenhausen concentration camp . The exact circumstances of Roeingh's death can no longer be determined: According to statements by a Hungarian fellow inmate from the end of 1945, Roeingh died in April 1945 on a death march of Sachsenhausen inmates north in Parchim . This information is confirmed by a handwritten entry dated May 12th in a burial register there. According to another prisoner, Roeingh had been in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp since mid-February 1945 and died there of typhus on March 16 or 17, 1945 .

Commemoration

Memorial plaques on the Reichstag

• Today the Theodor-Roeingh-Strasse in Beverungen , the Roeinghstrasse in Paderborn and a memorial plaque, which is part of the memorial for 96 Reichstag members murdered by the Nazi regime near the Reichstag in Berlin , commemorate Theodor Roeingh's life.
• The Catholic Church included Theodor Roeingh as a witness of faith in the German martyrology of the 20th century .

literature

• Friedrich Gerhard Hohmann (ed.): German Patriots in Resistance and Persecution 1933–1945: Paul Lejeune-Jung , Theodor Roeingh, Josef Wirmer , Georg Freiherr von Boeselager . A memorial book of the city of Paderborn , Paderborn 1986.
• Helmut Moll (publisher on behalf of the German Bishops' Conference), witnesses for Christ. Das deutsche Martyrologium des 20. Jahrhundert , Paderborn et al. 1999, 7th revised and updated edition 2019, ISBN 978-3-506-78012-6 , Volume I, pp. 606-608.
• Gisbert Strotdrees : A victim of the "thunderstorm": Theodor Roeingh , in: Ders .: Höfe, Bauern, Hungerjahre , 1991, p. 194ff.

Web links

• Literature by and about Theodor Roeingh in the catalog of the German National Library
• Theodor Roeingh in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library
2. ↑ BIORAB online by Wilhelm Heinz Schröder
3. ↑ Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933-1945. Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5162-9 , p. 468f.
4. ^ Richard W. Rolfs: The Sorcerer's Apprentice. The Life of Franz Von Papen , 1996, p. 69.
5. ^ Reichstag handbook for the 8th legislative period of the Weimar Republic, 1933.
6. ↑ Detlefs J. Blesgen: Financiers, Finances and Financing Forms of Resistance , 2006, p. 93.
7. ↑ Schumacher, MdR , p. 468f.
8. ↑ Kirchhundem municipal archive, inventory of the Kirchhundem office, part 2, no. 227; The wine wholesaler C. & H. Müller, Flape, applied for a Ministerialdirektor a. D. Theodor Roeingh a business authorization card.
9. ↑ Detlefs J. Blesgen: Financiers, Finances and Financing Forms of Resistance , 2006, p. 93.
10. ↑ Schumacher, MdR , p. 469.