Wilhelm Stegmann (politician)

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Wilhelm Ferdinand Stegmann

Wilhelm Ferdinand Stegmann (born June 13, 1899 in Munich , † December 15, 1944 in Ipolyság ) was a German National Socialist politician and SA leader . From 1930 to 1933 he was a member of the Reichstag for the NSDAP .

Life

Stegmann attended elementary school and secondary school in Munich from 1905 to 1917. As a cadet he took off in 1917 in the Bavarian Royal Infantry Life Guards at the First World War in part and was promoted in June 1918 to lieutenant. After the end of the war, Stegmann took part in the Freikorps Epp in 1919 fighting in Munich and in 1920 in the Ruhr area.

A study of agriculture at the Technical University of Munich graduating Stegmann 1923 as agronomist. During this time he met Heinrich Himmler . Until 1926 he was estate inspector on the Fürstlich Hohenlohesche Domain Schillingsfürst in Franconia , which he took over as a tenant from 1926 to probably 1933, whereby he got heavily in debt. During this time he worked as a propaganda speaker for the NSDAP several times in Neustadt an der Aisch and the surrounding area and in 1932 at the first Middle Franconian SA leaders' school at Hoheneck Castle in Ipsheim .

At about the same time as his work as an estate inspector, Stegmann was the leader of the Schillingsfürst local group of the Federal Oberland . Stegmann joined the NSDAP on December 14, 1925 ( membership number 24.713 ). In 1926 he became a member of the SA. In 1929 and 1930 he led the SA standard in Ansbach and until 1932 the SA throughout Franconia as the Gausturmführer. On September 15, 1932 he was promoted to SA group leader.

In the NSDAP, Stegmann was district manager in the Gau Middle Franconia from 1929 to 1931 . On September 14, 1930, Stegmann was elected to the Reichstag for constituency 26 . On May 12, 1932, Stegmann was involved in an assault on journalist Helmuth Klotz in the Reichstag restaurant. Stegmann was expelled from parliament together with three other NSDAP members for 30 days; the session had to be broken off as the excluded refused to leave the plenary session. On May 14, Stegmann, as well as the NSDAP MPs Fritz Weitzel and Edmund Heines, were sentenced to three months in prison for collective assault and assault by the Berlin-Mitte rapid lay judges' court.

In December 1932, Stegmann came into conflict with his Gauleiter Julius Streicher : the Gauleitung had withheld funds that were intended for the SA. On January 13, 1933, Stegmann gave up his seat in the Reichstag after he had been pressured to resign. Johann Appler replaced Stegmann in the Reichstag. On January 18, Stegmann became the leader of the newly founded Freikorps Franconia and, from February onwards, published the magazine Das Freikorps, Kampfblatt for the cleanliness and purity of the National Socialist idea . On January 19, Stegmann resigned from the NSDAP, a day before his expulsion from the party and the SA because of “mutiny”. Stegmann's new organization was joined by around 1,000 members, mainly SA members from Franconia and groups in the Ruhr area. Between 1,500 and 2,000 NSDAP members left the party together with Stegmann. In the Reichstag election campaign of March 1933 , the Freikorps supported Hitler because he represented “true National Socialism”, but agitated against Streicher.

After the Reichstag election, Stegmann's Freikorps and his magazine were banned on March 13, 1933. Stegmann himself was arrested on March 23, 1933 and taken into " protective custody " in a concentration camp - officially because of a planned assassination attempt on Julius Streicher. Almost three years later, on February 14, 1936, Stegmann was sentenced to 18 months in prison by the special court at the Nuremberg-Fürth regional court . Until 1938 he was held in the Nuremberg prison, the Ebrach prison, a Gestapo prison in Berlin and the Buchenwald concentration camp . The release followed Himmler's intervention; then Stegmann took over a Brunswick state domain.

Stegmann was drafted in 1944 for “probation” and “restoration of honor”: As SS-Obersturmführer of the reserve he came to the SS special unit Dirlewanger , a unit in which former prisoners and concentration camp prisoners often served. He fell on the Eastern Front in the fighting for Budapest .

literature

  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
  • Martin Döring: "Parliamentary arm of the movement". The National Socialists in the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic (= contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 130) Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5237-4 .
  • Rainer Hambrecht: The rise of the NSDAP in Middle and Upper Franconia (1925-1933). (= Nuremberg workpieces on city and state history. Volume 17) Korn and Berg, Nuremberg 1976, ISBN 3-87432-039-1 .

Web links

  • Wilhelm Stegmann in the database of members of the Reichstag
  • Joachim Lilla: Stegmann, Wilhelm, in: ders .: Minister of State, senior administrative officials and (NS) officials in Bavaria from 1918 to 1945.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Mück: Nazi stronghold in Middle Franconia: The völkisch awakening in Neustadt an der Aisch 1922–1933. Verlag Philipp Schmidt, 2016 (= Streiflichter from home history. Special volume 4); ISBN 978-3-87707-990-4 , pp. 79, 84, 90, 113, 126, 130 and 132.
  2. ↑ Herbert Linder: From the NSDAP to the SPD. The political life of Dr. Hemuth Klotz (1894-1943). (= Karlsruhe contributions to the history of National Socialism. Volume 3) Universitätsverlag Konstanz, Konstanz 1995, ISBN 3-87940-607-3 , p. 174ff. Communication in the Reichstag session by Reichstag President Paul Löbe , see minutes of the Reichstag session of May 12, 1932
  3. ↑ Patrick Moreau: National Socialism from the Left. The "Combat Community of Revolutionary National Socialists" and Otto Strasser's "Black Front" 1930–1935. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-421-06192-0 , pp. 161f.
  4. ↑ Bastian Hein: Elite for people and leaders? The General SS and its members 1925–1945. Oldenbourg, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-70936-0 , p. 84.
  5. ↑ Hein, Elite , p. 85.
personal data
SURNAME Stegmann, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stegmann, Wilhelm Ferdinand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1944
Place of death Ahy