Walter Erdmann (politician)

Felix Walter Erdmann (born January 21, 1898 in Streumen ; † March 13, 1949 in the Buchenwald special camp ) was a German politician ( National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP)) and agricultural functionary in the German Reich .

Life

Walter was the son of Gustav Hermann and his wife Anna Emilie.

After the one-year volunteer certificate , Erdmann spent two years in an apprenticeship at the Tannenrode domain , Posen province . During the First World War he was called up in the fall of 1916 and was in the field. After the end of the war, Erdmann retired from military service as a lieutenant in the reserve , awarded the Iron Cross II. Class and the Knight's Cross II. Class of the Albrecht Order , and from January 1919 worked on his parents' farm, which he took over in 1923.

From 1922 to 1923 (dissolution) he was a member of the Bundes Oberland , part of the Black Reichswehr . After joining the NSDAP on May 15, 1925 ( membership number 4,813), he became NSDAP local group leader. In the "agricultural policy apparatus" ("aA") he acted as head of the main office (district management), district adviser, agricultural section adviser and local councilor.

In 1933 he became a member of the Saxon state parliament , to which he belonged until its dissolution in the same year. On August 13, 1934, he joined the Schutzstaffel (SS). Within the Reichsnährstand , Erdmann was regional chairman of the state farming community of Saxony and thus deputy of state farmer leader Hellmut Körner . In addition, he was chairman of the agricultural cooperative Streumen , deputy chairman of the administrative board of the agricultural credit association Saxony , member of the board of the state cooperative fund Saxony and member of the select committee of the fire insurance institute Saxony.

In his function as regional department head, he ran for election on the NSDAP's nomination at number 218 in the Reichstag election on March 29, 1936 . However, Erdmann was not elected to the National Socialist Reichstag .

Due to the recall of Körner to Berlin and the occupied territories, Erdmann was entrusted with the management of the country's farmer's leader from April 1, 1937 and remained this until the end of the war.

Erdmann was arrested on July 29, 1945 by the NKVD Dresden operational group . On September 21, 1946 on its removal followed by special camps Bautzen into special camps Jamlitz and from there on April 5, 1947 in the special camp at Buchenwald, where he died on March 13, 1949, the consequences of pulmonary tuberculosis.

Literature and Sources

• 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).
• Saxon. Main State Archive Dresden, 11510 - Reichsnährstand. Personnel file E 41.
• Christian Rohrer: Country Farmer Guide. Volume 1: Country Leader in National Socialist East Prussia. Studies on Erich Spickschen and the East Prussian peasantry. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-647-30097-9 , pp. 62–63.