Carl Vincent Krogmann

Carl Vincent Krogmann ( born March 3, 1889 in Hamburg, † March 14, 1978 ) was a shipowner, banker and industrialist from Hamburg and during the time of National Socialism, First Mayor of the city.

Life

Krogmann was until 1933, co-owner of the renowned Hamburg-based trading house Wachsmuth and Krogmann, which was mainly active as a bank and shipping company. In 1930 he was elected to the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce. He was a board member of the Hamburg National clubs.

Before the seizure of power by the National Socialists Krogmann, the son of a long-established Hamburg merchant family came, politically not in appearance. While, however, he has been involved in the industrial input, not initially a member of the NSDAP. When, after the takeover of the Hamburg Senate resigned closed, hit Empire and Gauleiter Karl Kaufmann Krogmann before new first mayor. He promised himself by Krogmann a closer bond of Hamburg to the party and the ideology of the Nazis.

Krogmann was elected on 8 March 1933 member of the Hamburg Senate and the Senate for the first mayor. He joined the NSDAP on 1 May 1933. He was member of the delegation to the London Conference (1933 ), a World Economic Conference. On May 18, 1933, he was appointed by the Reich Governor Kaufmann Governing Mayor, from 30 July 1936 he led as a result of political Gleichschaltung only the position as head of the municipal administration. The leadership of the provincial government took over Kaufmann itself Krogmann had the post of the head of the municipal administration held until the surrender of the city to the British army on May 3, 1945.

After the arrest of businessman on May 4, the British combined state and local government back in the hands of the mayor. From May 5 to 9 were held daily discussions Senate under his leadership. Thus, the military government Reserve left him until his arrest by the British garrison commander Brigadier Armytage on May 11 in office.

Krogmann was in 1932 a member of the Keppler Circle, from which, after 1933, the Friends of Reichsführer -SS was. The incarnation and mediation of Nazi ideology indirectly succeeded in many ways, for example by planet un Blomen, the large park near the fairgrounds today, in accordance with the ideas of the Nazis only " German plants" should grow.

Krogmann also held the office of Gauarbeitsführers, a member of the Presidential Council of the Reich Chamber, was a member of the Academy of German Law and Guide of the German Red Cross.

After the war, Krogmann was interned until April 1948 in Bielefeld. He was sentenced in August 1948 by the 13 Bielefeld Spruchkammer for membership in a criminal organization as 10,000 mark fine, but as was serving with his remand. Krogmann worked after his release from internment in the construction industry. Later he was the owner of a wood wholesale. Politically, he is no longer emerged in public. By newsletters in small numbers, he tried to hold on to old comrades in the 1970s connection. Krogmann died in March 1978 in Hamburg.

Works

  • Carl Vincent Krogmann: Beloved Hamburg. Christian -Verlag, 1955.
  • Carl Vincent Krogmann: Bellevue. Christian -Verlag, 1960 (2nd edition 1963).
  • Carl Vincent Krogmann: It was about Germany's future. Druffel -Verlag, Leoni am Starnberger See 1982 -. ISBN 3-8061-0741-6
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