Werner Willikens

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Werner Willikens

Werner Willikens (born February 8, 1893 in Vienenburg , † October 25, 1961 in Wolfenbüttel ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ), agricultural functionary and SS group leader .

Life

He obtained his Abitur in 1911 at the grammar school in Goslar . He entered the army as an officer candidate and was promoted to flag junior in 1912 . From 1914 to 1918 he fought in World War I and was last promoted to first lieutenant and leader of a battery. After the war he devoted himself to agriculture as an apprentice from 1919 and attended the agricultural college in Halle (Saale) . He then married in 1924 at Groß Flöthe in the Goslar district, where he managed a larger farm. In 1925 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 3.355) and in May 1933 he became a member of the SS (SS number 56.180). In Goslar he became local group leader (OGL) and also district leader of the NSDAP. He then ran for the Reichstag (Weimar Republic) and was from May 1928 to November 1933 a member of the constituency 16 Südhannover-Braunschweig. He remained in the Reichstag (National Socialist period) until May 1945.

After the elections for the Chamber of Agriculture on December 18, 1931, Willikens, who was, as it were, Walther Darré's deputy in his “ Agricultural Political Apparatus ”, was elected to the Presidium of the Reichslandbund . Until July 1933 he was President of the NSDAP as trustee. After the seizure of power , Willikens worked as State Secretary in the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture from July 1933 . Under Darré Willikens became department head of the Reich Office for Agricultural Policy of the NSDAP, in which the agricultural policy apparatus had merged. In 1935 - that year he lived at Leipziger Platz 10 in Berlin - the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture was dissolved and integrated into the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture , so that Willikens continued his work there.

The Hitler biographer Ian Kershaw was given the maxim formulated by Willikens in a speech on February 21, 1934, that it was the “duty of everyone” in the Third Reich to “try to counteract him in the sense of the Führer” without his instructions or orders to wait, the title for the 13th chapter of this biography, to which he gave the heading To work against the leader , at the same time a leitmotif for the biography as a whole and an example of anticipatory obedience .

In the course of the establishment of the Reichswerke Hermann Göring near Salzgitter , Willikens had to give up his farm in Groß Flöthe. As a "compensation" he received a castle-like property in occupied Poland . As State Secretary, he published a plan on January 12, 1940 in the National Socialist Landpost magazine to settle farmers from Baden and Württemberg in the Posen Reichsgau .

After the end of the Nazi regime, he was charged and sentenced to prison. After serving his imprisonment, he returned to Gross Flöthe on a small farm. He died in 1961 and was buried there.

Publications

  • National Socialist Agricultural Policy. Munich 1931.
  • Buildings for feeding the people. In: The four-year plan. June 1939.

literature

  • Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 658-659 .
  • Ian Kershaw : Hitler 1889-1936. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-421-05131-3 , p. 27, p. 663-669.
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. 2nd revised edition. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-10-039309-0 .
  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the national and national socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , p. 730.
  • Mario Niemann : The position of the Mecklenburg landowners towards National Socialism and membership in the NSDAP. In: Ernst Münch, Ralph Schattkowsky (Ed.): Festschrift for Gerhard Heitz on his 75th birthday (= studies on the history of society in the East Elbe. Vol. 1). Neuer Hochschulschriftenverlag, Rostock 2000, ISBN 3-929-54455-5 , pp. 309-335.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Daniela Münkel : National Socialist Agricultural Policy and Everyday Farmers' Life. Frankfurt am Main et al. 1996, p. 71 f.
  2. ↑ Ian Kershaw: Hitler 1889-1936. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1998, p. 27 and p. 663.
personal data
SURNAME Willikens, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienenburg
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1961
Place of death Wolfenbüttel