Wilhelm Rosenbaum (politician)

Wilhelm Rosenbaum

Wilhelm Rosenbaum (born January 10, 1880 in Hüsten , † March 5, 1938 in Recklinghausen ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ). He is not to be confused with the homonymous son Wilhelm Dietrich Rosenbaum (born October 29, 1909 in Datteln; † 9 December 1994 Detmold), who in 1938 unsuccessfully on the list of the leader to select the Greater German Reichstag on 10. 4. 1938 as Reichstag member was proposed.

Live and act

After attending the elementary and rectorate school, Rosenbaum, whose parents ran a trucking business in Hüsten in the Sauerland region, completed an apprenticeship in municipal administration in Hüsten from December 1894 and was then employed at the municipal treasury of the Hüsten office. After his military service, he was a police officer in Dorstfeld from 1902 , for which he worked until 1908. After several years of activity as a house manager for the Emscher-Lippe mine, Rosenbaum earned his living from 1911 as an innkeeper, initially in Oer-Erkenschwick and from 1920 with a restaurant directly opposite the König-Ludwig IV / V colliery in Suderwich , which then became a regular pub of the SA should be. At the First World War Rosenbaum took from 1914 to 1918 as a warrant officer in part.

In 1922 Rosenbaum joined the Völkisch Block . Since that time he has described himself as “believing in God”, having previously belonged to the Catholic Church until he was 21 and then, after being excommunicated because of his marriage to a Protestant innkeeper's daughter, to the Protestant church. He became a member of the NSDAP in March 1926 ( membership number 34,771). For the NSDAP Rosenbaum acted from 1926 as district inspector Emscher-Lippe and at the beginning of January 1930 became head of the local group in Recklinghausen, of which he was a co-founder. In January 1931 he became district leader of the NSDAP for Recklinghausen, Coesfeld and Lüdinghausen. From the beginning of October 1932 to the beginning of January 1936 district leader of the Recklinghausen-Stadt district party.

From March 1933, he was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Westphalia for the NSDAP . After the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933, Rosenbaum was also appointed honorary alderman of the city of Recklinghausen on May 1, 1933 and, in May 1934, the Prussian provincial councilor. From 1936 he was Gauamtsleiter and Gauinspektor of the Gaueitung Westfalen-Nord.

On November 7, 1935, Rosenbaum entered the National Socialist Reichstag as a replacement procedure , to which he belonged until his death as a representative of constituency 17 (North Westphalia). He had previously run unsuccessfully in the Reichstag elections in July 1932 and November 1933.

After his death, Suderwichstrasse in Recklinghausen, where Rosenbaum's restaurant was located, was renamed "Wilhelm-Rosenbaum-Strasse", which the British immediately reversed in 1945. His son Wilhelm D. Rosenbaum worked for the NSDAP in Gau Westfalen-Nord , where he was involved in the campaigns against the Münster bishop Count von Galen and the Masonic lodges , and later with the SS as a cultural functionary. At the end of the war he was chief editor of the Nordland publishing house of the SS. After the war he was sentenced to internment by the British occupying forces. The trained hotel clerk later held managerial positions in the beverage industry.

literature

• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .

Web links

• Wilhelm Rosenbaum in the database of members of the Reichstag

• Biography on the Internet portal "Westphalian History"