Walter Steinecke

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Walter Steinecke

Walter Ernst Steinecke (born March 7, 1888 in Pützlingen , † July 1, 1975 in Detmold-Hiddesen ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and artist.

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Grave site at the Hiddesen cemetery

Walter Steinecke was born on March 7, 1888 in Pützlingen. His parents were pastor Hermann Steinecke and his wife Emilie, née Reif. After attending the secondary school in Nordhausen and Erfurt , Steinecke joined the 1st West Prussian Pioneer Battalion No. 17 in Thorn in 1908 as a flag junior . He attended the Engers War School and was made a lieutenant in 1909 . From 1912 to 1924 he was trained at the Military Technical Academy in Berlin-Charlottenburg. He took part in the First World War in East Prussia , Poland and France. During the war he was awarded the Iron Cross of both classes and promoted to captain in May 1918 . During the war years he married Grete Höland in 1916, daughter of the former Lemgo mayor Ernst Höland. At the beginning of the November Revolution, he said he was forcibly removed from the army.

From 1919 to 1920, Steinecke studied as a painter and graphic artist in Kassel . Together with his wife, he founded Abraxas Verlag in Lemgo in 1920, which primarily published Steinecke's own works. In 1929 he joined the NSDAP. In 1930 he became head of the Lemgo branch in the Lippe region. In 1932 he was appointed district manager for Lippe by Alfred Meyer . In the run-up to the Lippe elections in January 1933, he took over the overall organization of the election campaign. After the election he moved into the state parliament as a member of parliament, where he took over the leadership of the NSDAP faction.

From 1933 to 1934 Walter Steinecke was Gaukommissar for Lippe and acting deputy chairman at the employment office in Detmold .

Steinecke attracted attention several times due to excessive alcohol, abnormal behavior towards women and abuse of party funds. He was therefore replaced shortly after he came to power and was even threatened with expulsion from the party and protective custody at times. The function assigned to him in 1934 as "Commissioner for Reports" at the Gau leadership in Gau Westfalen Nord was not associated with any political power. From 1936, however, Steinecke held the function of Gauamtsleiter.

From November 1933 until the end of the Nazi regime in spring 1945, Steinecke was a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for constituency 17 (North Westphalia) . In the SA , Steinecke achieved the rank of Sturmbannführer. From 1938 he became President of Westphalia.

In 1936, after a production by Christian Dietrich Grabbe's “ Die Hermannschlacht ” , von Steinecke made 12 etchings by Walter Bruno Iltz , which he presented to Adolf Hitler in book form in January 1937 .

For NSDAP propaganda material, Steinecke designed posters and title pages; paintings he had drawn were found in service buildings, galleries and also in the Reich Chancellery.

After the end of the war, Walter Steinecke was arrested in April 1945 and taken to the Staumühle internment camp. During his imprisonment until 1947 he produced around 600 drawings and paintings, some of which he published in 1948 in a volume entitled “Heads Behind Barbed Wire”. He returned to Lemgo in 1947 and worked as a painter and graphic artist and occasionally as an author. In 1955 his book "Auf der Insel Staumühle ..." appeared, in which he looks back on the time of his imprisonment.

With his second wife Margarete Eilers, Steinecke moved to Hiddesen in the 1960s . Until his death in 1975 his works were shown in exhibitions without addressing his past during National Socialism.

Today, Steinecke's estate is kept in the Detmold State and Civil Status Archives, a branch of the North Rhine-Westphalia State Archives. It contains nine volumes with materials from the years 1937 to 1958, including Steinecke's personal memories and a guest book.

literature

  • Jürgen Scheffler: Walter Steinecke (1888–1975) . In: Adaptation - Survival - Resistance: Artists in National Socialism . Aschendorff, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-402-12924-1 , p. 202-210 .
  • Andreas Ruppert, Hansjörg Riechert: Rule and Acceptance - National Socialism in Lippe during the war years. Analysis and documentation . Ed .: Nordrhein-Westfälisches Staatsarchiv Detmold (=  publications of the state archives of North Rhine-Westphalia, Series C: Sources and Research . Volume 41 ). Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89918-020-6 , p. 337 .
  • Walter Steinecke: On the island of Staumühle ... - The story of a captivity in the German fatherland . Walter Steinecke - Abraxas Verlag, Lemgo 1955.
  • Walter Steinecke: Seventy years of light and shadow . Autobiography. Walter Steinecke - Abraxas Verlag, Lemgo 1958.
  • 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).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Ebert: Lexicon of the visual and creative artists in Westphalia-Lippe . Aschendorff, Münster 2001, ISBN 3-402-05458-2 , pp. 624 .
  2. ↑ Manfred Neureiter (ed.): Lexicon of ex-libris artists . Pro Business, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86805-462-0 , p. 562.
  3. ↑ Ruppert u. Riechert, 1998, p. 18
  4. ↑ Ruppert u. Riechert, 1998, p. 68
  5. ↑ Ruppert u. Riechert, 1998, pp. 128-129
  6. ↑ From the Hermannsschlacht. Lemgo, undr. (1937). Fol. With 12 mont. Orig. Wheel by Walter Steinecke. 20 text sheets Olwd. with gold stamp. - Bergmann 1954 (gives 13 etchings)
  7. ^ Central State Archives Potsdam, Reich Ministry for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment, Volume 141.
personal data
SURNAME Steinecke, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steinecke, Walter Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR and artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Pützlingen
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1975
Place of death Detmold-Hiddesen