Wilhelm Thiele (politician)

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Wilhelm Thiele

Wilhelm Waldemar Thiele (born September 10, 1897 in Ballenstedt , † March 28, 1990 in Biedenkopf ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

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Wilhelm Thiele attended elementary school in Wickede (Ruhr) from 1904 to 1912 . He was called up for army service in August 1916. As a result, he took part in the First World War. He fought in the 172nd Infantry Regiment on the Western Front . He returned from the war as a war disabled and was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class and the Wound Badge .

On November 3, 1925, he joined the NSDAP (membership number 31.458 → golden party badge of the NSDAP ).

In 1933 Thiele was a member of the municipal and provincial parliaments and first district deputy of the Dillenburg district . In March 1933, Thiele was elected head of the city council in Biedenkopf. The constituent meeting of the city council was preceded by a city council election in which the NSDAP achieved an absolute majority with 64.5% (in the same month the NSDAP achieved 43.9% in the Reichstag election). At the same time as he was elected head of the city council, the city council granted him honorary citizenship (in the same session of the city council, Adolf Hitler was also granted honorary citizenship).

In 1934, after the Biedenkopf district had been restored , Thiele was appointed the first district deputy of the Biedenkopf district and head of the city council. On March 1, 1934, he was appointed full-time mayor of the city of Biedenkopf.

In April 1935, Thiele entered the National Socialist Reichstag as a replacement for the excluded member of parliament Walter Kramer (suspected homosexuality) , in which he represented constituency 19 (Hessen-Nassau) until the end of the Nazi regime in spring 1945.

After he had voluntarily resigned from municipal service on April 1, 1937, Thiele was appointed district manager of the Biedenkopf / Dillenburg district on October 1, 1937.

On March 28, 1945, the day before Biedenkopf was liberated by a US Army unit, Thiele and other NSDAP party leaders tried to flee from the advancing army unit in a car. Like other Nazi leaders, Thiele was arrested by members of the US Army and taken to an internment camp.

In July 1946, the freedom of the city Biedenkopf he was from the city disallowed (same time as the withdrawal of honorary citizenship of Adolf Hitler).

In an address directory of the city of Biedenkopf from 1955, Thiele was listed as a "pensioner".

Contemporary witnesses described Wilhelm Thiele as a man who stood out due to his small figure, his walking disability due to his war injury from the First World War and his strong commitment to the NSDAP.

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  1. ↑ Adalbert Gimbel: So We Fought! Descriptions from the time of the NSDAP's struggle in Gau Hessen-Nassau; NS.-Verlagsgesellschaft mbh, 1941
  2. ↑ Hinterländer Anzeiger of March 23, 1933
  3. ↑ Hinterländer Anzeiger of March 13, 1933
  4. ↑ Written note by the then mayor Klein, who opposed Thiele's request to flee with him. City of Biedenkopf, stories and history of our city, volume 2, 1254-2004, festival book for the anniversary of the city of Biedenkopf , p. 72
  5. ^ City of Biedenkopf, Stories and History of our City, Volume 2, 1254-2004, Festival book for the anniversary of the city of Biedenkopf , p. 101
personal data
SURNAME Thiele, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thiele, Wilhelm Waldemar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Ballenstedt
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1990
Place of death Biedenkopf