Werner Vogelsang
Werner Vogelsang (born September 27, 1895 in Schlettau , † July 27, 1947 in Wladimir ) was a German politician of the NSDAP .
Life
From Easter 1900 to 1906 Vogelsang attended elementary school in his hometown and then until 1912 the secondary school in Annaberg . In 1912 he went to the state college in Hamburg and trained as a ship engineer. In October 1914 he joined the Imperial Navy as an engineer aspirant and took part in the First World War. He was discharged from the Navy on March 9, 1920 with the character of a lieutenant (engineer). Until 1932 he worked as a businessman, he joined the NSDAP, was local group and district leader in Annaberg and Gauredner of his party. In 1937 he also worked as a national representative for the Ore Mountains . He was a member of the German Reichstag from March 29, 1936 until the end of Nazi rule in spring 1945 .
Immediately after the members' and general assembly of the Erzgebirgsverein on 16./17. October 1937 in Freiberg was on 4./5. December 1937 in Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb. convened an extraordinary assembly of members of the Erzgebirgsverein connected with the 1st day of the Erzgebirge and the visit to the Feierohmd exhibition. The agenda for December 4, 1937 was the election of the new chairman. Head of Studies Fritz Grundmann and the treasurer Heßmann resigned from the board and Vogelsang was elected as the new chairman of the Erzgebirgsverein. While Vogelsang called himself chairman in February 1938, he called himself the leader of the Erzgebirgsverein in March 1938.
After the outbreak of the Second World War , Werner Vogelsang was represented in the Erzgebirgsverein by the 1st deputy club leader Oskar Hanns, chairman of the Erzgebirgszweigverein Chemnitz, from November 1939 at the latest. He was followed by Max Günther as acting leader in autumn 1940 .
Vogelsang was actively involved in the war and on November 9, 1942, was appointed Standartenführer of the SA Group in Saxony. He died in 1947 as a Soviet prisoner of war.
literature
- Gerhard Steinicke: Three days in April: End of the war in Leipzig . Lehmstedt-Verlag, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-937146-19-9 .
- Gerhard Besier : Burdens of a dictatorial past. Right-wing extremism today . Lit-Verlag 2006, ISBN 3-8258-8789-8 .
Web links
- Werner Vogelsang in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Lutz Vogel: Vogelsang, Werner . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vogelsang, Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (NSDAP), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schlettau |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 27, 1947 |
| Place of death | Vladimir |