Wilhelm Henning

This article deals with the Nazi politician; the Swedish artist of the same name is portrayed under Edvin Wilhelm Henning .

Wilhelm Henning (born July 26, 1879 in Bruchsal , † after 1943) was a German military and ethnic - National Socialist politician.

Wilhelm Henning

Life

Henning attended elementary school in Bruchsal, the grammar schools in Bruchsal and Karlsruhe and did his Abitur. On July 14, 1879 he joined the Leib Grenadier Regiment No. 8 in Frankfurt an der Oder as a flag junior . On March 22, 1902, he was transferred to the 3rd Badische Dragoon Regiment "Prince Karl" No. 22 . From 1908 to 1911 he was assigned to the War Academy and in March 1912 to the General Staff , to which he was transferred in March 1914. During the war he worked as a general staff officer in several places. In the spring of 1917 he was transferred to the War Ministry . From December 1917 to February 1918 he was a member of the mixed or German commission under Wilhelm von Mirbach-Harff , active in Petersburg and from April to August 1918 agent of the War Ministry for Russia with the German embassy in Moscow, where he was the immediate superior of the there Otto Schmidt-Hanover was active from July 1st to 8th . Most recently General Staff Officer of the Neutral Zone in Karlsruhe, he took his leave in the spring of 1919 with the rank of major .

In 1920 Henning entered the Reichstag for the German National People's Party (DNVP) (constituency 16 - Weser-Ems). In June 1922, Hennings published an article in the Conservative Monthly , in which Henning attacked the then Reich Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau in a sharp, anti-Semitic manner because of the Rapallo Treaty he had signed :

“As soon as the international Jew has German honor in his fingers, there is no longer any talk of it… German honor is no bargain for international Jewish traffickers! ... But you, Mr. Rathenau, and your backers will be called to account by the German people. "

Only a little later Rathenau was murdered by supporters of the right-wing extremist organization Consul . As a result, Henning was repeatedly accused of having been responsible for the murder with his agitation. In a speech in the Reichstag on December 2, 1925 , Joseph Wirth described Henning as "morally responsible for the murder" and that "still blood" was stuck to his fingers.

After Rathenau's murder, Henning was expelled from the DNVP parliamentary group. In November 1922 he formed his own working group with Reinhold Wulle and Albrecht von Graefe , who a. a. made strong for Gerhard Roßbach . The radical anti-Semitic Deutschvölkische Freedom Party (DVFP) emerged from this in December 1922 , and Henning was one of its leaders. At the same time he was chairman of the Association of Nationally Minded Soldiers (VNS) in Berlin. After the DVFP was banned in Prussia in March 1923, Henning, who was not arrested, represented the party that was still active. In the course of the investigation into the Fememorden in the Black Reichswehr , Henning was also questioned. An accused had stated that he had committed one of the murders in order to keep the DVFP's preparations for a coup secret. Henning denied plans for a putsch by the DVFP in 1926 and at the same time claimed that the DVFP had been surprised by the Hitler putsch .

After joining the DVFP, Henning retained his mandate in the Reichstag. In May 1924 he was re-elected to the Reichstag (constituency 14 - Weser-Ems), in which he now represented the National Socialist Freedom Party (NF), of which he was the manager. In December 1924 he was re-elected to the Reichstag on the Reich election proposal, where he moved from the NF to the Völkische Arbeitsgemeinschaft and remained a member of parliament until 1928. In the DFVP successor organization Deutschvölkische Freiheitsbewegung , Henning was seen as a liaison to business circles. Henning rejected proposals by DFVB member Ernst zu Reventlow to allow employees to participate in company profits and to give them seats on supervisory boards as the introduction of soldiers' councils in industry.

Henning was not only a radical anti-democrat and avowed anti-Semite , but also an enemy of Freemasonry , as is evident from his writings. He later joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party . 1943 loses its track.

Fonts

• The Secret of Bolshevism: The Secret Reasons of Our Economic Misery; A warning to all civilized peoples . Reichenbachsche Verlh., Leipzig 1925
• Put the Masons under control! The fight d. Freemasonry against the Fatherland a. Church . Berlin, Leipzig 1928
• From Görlitz to Wittenberg . Lecture, Verlag der Deutschvölkische Freiheitsbewegung, Berlin 1932

literature

• Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 153.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wilhelm Henning in the catalog of the German National Library
• Wilhelm Henning in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Wilhelm Henning in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic

Footnotes

1. ^ Maximilian Terhalle : Otto Schmidt (1888-1971). Opponent of Hitler and Intimus Hugenberg . University of Bonn 2006, p. 34.
2. ↑ Quoted from Thomas Ramge: Die Flicks: A German family history about money, power and politics. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main & New York 2004, ISBN 3-593-37404-8 , p. 41.
3. ^ Negotiations of the Reichstag, Volume 388. Verlag der Buchdruckerei der Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, Berlin 1924, p. 4690 f.
4. ^ Bernhard Sauer: Black Reichswehr and Fememorde. A milieu study on right-wing radicalism in the Weimar Republic. Metropol, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-936411-06-9 , p. 39 ff.
5. ^ Reimer Wulff: The German National Freedom Party 1922–1928. Philological dissertation, Marburg ad L. 1968, p. 153. University thesis.
6. ↑ Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 153.