Wolfgang Bergemann

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Wolfgang August Bergemann (born February 27, 1901 in Oberdreis , Neuwied district , † January 12, 1969 in Munich ) was a German political functionary (NSDAP).

Life and activity

Bergemann was the son of the evangelical pastor August Bergemann and his wife Emma, ​​née Heck. He passed the Abitur at a humanistic grammar school. He then studied political science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . As a student in Munich, he was involved in the National Socialist German Student Union. At the beginning of 1927 he took over the chairmanship of the Munich NSDStB group after intrigues initiated by himself against the previous leader Max Kurz. In the following years he also tried, encouraged by Joseph Goebbels , the chairman of the student union Wilhelm Tempel (1905-1983) to overthrow.

From 1925 to 1926 Bergemann was the publisher and editor-in-chief of the National Socialist weekly newspaper Der Saardeutsche .

In spring 1927 Bergemann took part in the revolt led by Edmund Heines by parts of the Munich SA against the party leadership around Adolf Hitler . The "mutiny" of the SA people was motivated by the rejection of the political power-gain strategy that Hitler and the leadership group of the NSDAP had been pursuing since 1925, which was aimed at unconditional maintenance of (formal) legality and the activist SA people who long-term one Preferred takeover of power by illegal, violent and revolutionary means through a coup, as weak and impetuous. In the course of the suppression of the SA revolt at the end of May / beginning of June 1927, in the course of which more than 100 SA men who had not submitted to the party leadership were expelled from the NSDAP and the SA by Hitler and the Supreme Party Court, was also expelled Bergemann expelled from the party.

Bergemann was accepted back into the NSDAP after just a few weeks. In the following years he distinguished himself as a tireless political agitator: After moving to Marburg University as a student, Bergemann became a driving force in Nazi propaganda in the Hessian region, which earned him the nickname “The Drummer of Upper Hesse”. Bergemann's activity as a propagandist for the National Socialist cause was particularly evident during the election campaign leading up to the Reichstag elections in 1928 . In the weeks leading up to the election, he appeared at 70 out of 100 meetings that the NSDAP held in the Marburg constituency as part of its election propaganda.

In the following years, Bergemann took over positions as district propaganda leader, chief editor of the national newspaper and finally as district inspector of the NSDAP in Westphalia-North.

In 1932 Bergemann was convicted of anti-Semitic agitation against the Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith .

On the occasion of the Reichstag election of April 1938 , Bergemann was nominated as a member of the National Socialist Reichstag on the so-called “List of the Führer for the election of the Greater German Reichstag”, but was not elected.

During the Second World War , Bergemann worked as an editor for the Deutsche Zeitung in Norway . In this position he wrote propaganda articles, B. the article “In the Ghetto. Jews manage themselves ”over the Litzmannstadt ghetto , in which he praised the“ generosity ”of the German authorities in allowing the ghetto residents to self-govern, which was“ striking counter-evidence ”against the atrocity baited abroad.

Fonts

  • "Streiflichter aus der Kampfzeit", in: NSDAP Marburg , pp. 21-25.
  • “250,000 Jews administer themselves. The Litzmannstadt ghetto, a clear refutation of foreign atrocities. A necessary interim solution to the Jewish question (photo report for the Litzmannstädter Zeitung ) ”, in: Litzmannstädter Zeitung of June 9, 1940, p. 13f.

literature

  • Bergemann, Wolfgang. In: Erich Stockhorst: 5000 heads. Who had which role in the third Reich. Blick + Bild Verlag, 1967, p. 52. ( limited preview in Google book search)
  • Alexander Graf: Cap, ribbon and brown shirt: Marburg student associations and the National Socialist student union during the Weimar Republic. Tectum-Verlag, Marburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8288-2860-5 , pp. 38f., 42f., 53 ( limited preview in the Google book search)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Death register of the registry office Munich III No. 106/1969.
  2. ↑ Rösch, Munich NSDAP pp. 200f.
  3. ^ Mathias Rösch: The Munich NSDAP 1925-1933: An investigation into the internal structure of the NSDAP in the Weimar Republic , 2014, pp. 160 and 201.
  4. ↑ Rudy J. Koshar: Social Life, Local Politics, and Nazism: Marburg, 1880-1935 , 1986, p. 189.
  5. ↑ Steffi Jersch-Wenzel / Reinhard Rürup (eds.): Sources on the history of the Jews in the archives of the new federal states , Vol. 5 (Secret State Archive Preussischer Kulturbesitz Part 2), Munich 2000, p. 122.
  6. ↑ Erich Stockhorst: 5000 heads. Who was what in the Third Reich , 1967, p. 52.
  7. ^ Czeslaw Madajczyk: The Occupation Policy of Nazi Germany in Poland 1939-1945 , 1988, p. 159.
personal data
SURNAME Bergemann, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bergemann, Wolfgang August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political functionary (NSDAP)
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberdreis , Neuwied district
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1969
Place of death Munich