Dieksanderkoog

The Dieksanderkoog is a 1935 newly acquired piece of land (polders ) in southern Dithmarschen, which is a part of the community Friedrichskoog today. Up to 1945 called the new polder Adolf Hitler polder.

History

In 1935, the reclamation of the Koog obtained from the North Sea has been completed. He was given the name Adolf Hitler polder. This land reclamation took place in the Nazi propaganda for several reasons a special value. For one, in particular the critical abroad against the peaceful assembly will of Nazi Germany should be presented, while Germany is in fact prepared for war. At the same time it should be demonstrated that the National Socialist government would take on the important question of Zugewinnung for her new habitat, no foreign territory, but are limited to their own territory. Secondly, the NSDAP Gauleiter Hinrich Lohse was able to show under that they cared about improving the situation of farmers who were in the new country acquire smallholdings. The impetus for naming came from the NSDAP group Friedrichskoog who had submitted this proposal in April 1933.

The Adolf Hitler polder should be a Musterkoog in the framework of the National Socialist policy of blood and soil. The racial politics played a decisive role in the land reclamation project. Thus, the local farmers' leader of the former district Süderdithmarschen met on behalf of the Reich personally selecting the 93 settlers of the new Adolf Hitler Koogs. Only convinced National Socialists Dithmar received a settler point since the Nazi polder community should be a National Socialist planned community, should make a symbol of the Nazi Volksgemeinschaft outward. The new polder was personally initiated on 28 August 1935 by Hitler. Numerous delegations of foreign politicians and journalists visited the Musterkoog and were impressed by the staged community. Also from Germany even traveled to a lot of onlookers. The volume of traffic in the polder thereby increased so much that needed to be fixed and fixed the roads and paths. Also, water lines and power connections were moved faster than usual because of the many groups of visitors. Because of the overwhelming importance of propaganda Adolf Hitler Koogs the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda took over the costs. With information brochures and films such as defiance bare Hans (1935 ) and unknown territory on the sea (1938 ) as well as radio transmissions from different places in the West Coast made ​​the Propaganda Ministry, the topics of land reclamation and Adolf Hitler polder known throughout the empire.

(: Tümlauer - polder today ) Also inaugurated in 1935 was on the peninsula Eiderstedt another Musterkoog under the name of Hermann Goering polder. In 1938, then the Horst- Wessel - polder followed (now Norderheverkoog ).

A total of 43 polders should according to these models within 100 years are obtained in order to create additional space for a total of 14,000 settlers. The plans to had already emerged in the Weimar Republic. The Nazis concealed this and gave the plans than their own ideas. The project was canceled in 1938 due to the high financial and time burden involved in land reclamation after completion of the Horst- Wessel - polder.

Structures

In Adolf Hitler polder itself courtyards were built, which are based in part on the idealized notions of a Germanic farmhouse, on the other hand remember in their uniformity and uniform arrangement of today's housing settlements. As a central location, designed by the architect Richard Kiel Brodersen territory hall was in 1935/36 on a mound built. It is reminiscent of a Haubarg which, but not in Dithmar is actually on eiderstedt a traditional building form. The deliberately planned as an anti- church hall was used for meetings and ideological training of farmers in the polder and other nationals of the Reich within the meaning of National Socialism. A big bell in a separate wooden bell tower called the peasants as a church together; this bell mysteriously disappeared in the postwar period. It is suspected that she was hiding from sympathizing with Nazism farmers. In architectural implementation of Nazi values ​​was at the tower gables an imperial eagle with a swastika; also were attached to the outer walls of the north side than-life statues of a soldier and a farmer. Most murals and exhibits were removed after 1945, only the fresco dikes of the Altona painter Otto Thämer is still preserved. Until 30 June 2011, the new territory hall served as a youth recreational center of the church circles Norder and Süderdithmarschen. Since 2010, the Church wishes to withdraw from the territory hall. She has a demolition permit, but is willing to give the object to an institution that wants to work with the historic town hall uncharted territory. The Institute of Schleswig-Holstein -term and regional history ( IZRG ) under Professor Danker has examined how the new territory hall is as a historical place of learning for Schleswig- Holstein. Based on this preparation the Land Schleswig- Holstein decided with his Minister of Culture Anke Spoorendonk a memorial and learning center for the period of National Socialism in Schleswig -Holstein to set up. For this purpose, a request for funding half the investment costs was submitted to the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media Monika Grütters. The other half wanted to pay the country. This application was rejected in February 2014.

Policy

By 1945, 91 of 92 settlers in Dieksanderkoog members of the NSDAP, preferably with low membership number, so that the place even long after the war was a center of right.

Non-fiction

• Lars Amenda: " people without space creates space ". Racial Politics and Propaganda in Nazi land reclamation project on the Schleswig - Holstein's west coast. In: Information on Schleswig- Holstein's history. 45 (2005 ), pp. 4-31. ( online at: akens.org, PDF, 228 kB)
• Klaus Groth: The structure of Adolf Hitler Koogs - An example of Nazi Siedlungsbaues. In: Erich Hoffmann, Peter Wulf (eds.): We build the kingdom. First rise and reign years of National Socialism in Schleswig -Holstein. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1983, ISBN 3-529-02181-4.
• Frank Trende: new territory! was the magic word. New dikes in Hitler's name. Boyens book publishing, Heath 2011, ISBN 978-3-8042-1340-1.

Fiction

• Thies Thiessen: The Bell: The same old song. EBook. CulturBooks, 2014, ISBN 978-3-944818-33-7.