Ernst Schlange

Ernst snake ( born September 1, 1888 at the Good Schwaneberg circle Prenzlau, † 1947) was a German politician (NSDAP ).

Life

Ernst snake was the eldest son of a manor owner. After attending elementary school and graduating from the Humanistic Gymnasium, he studied law and political science at the universities of Greifswald and Halle. In 1908 he became a member of the Corps Pomerania. During his studies he worked as a volunteer at the Central German private banking hall. Except for the times in Halle ( Saale ), he was active throughout the study in Pomerania. In 1912 he was philistriert on the day of the First State Examination. Since 1913 he was employed by the Darmstadt Bank in Berlin. After the clerkship and the Doctorate in Law. it was 1914, the Great State Examination in Prenzlau.

As his left hand was mutilated by a hunting accident, he managed only ninth in the run-up to be drafted as a volunteer. From 1914 on, he was on the Western Front, 1915, he was transferred to the Eastern Front. After being wounded on 31 May 1915 Stepj in Galicia he lost his right arm and the right lung. As a reserve lieutenant in the Kaiser Franz Garde- Grenadier Regiment No. 2, he married 1917.

After the war ended in 1918 appeared as a snake Gerichtsassessor entered the Prussian civil service. He was Councillor since 1923 with the trustee for the enemy's assets, was founded in January 1925 Member of the Imperial compensation office and joined in August 1929 as a council in the Reich Finance Administration.

1922 belonged to queue at the nationalist anti -Semitic German Social Party ( DTSP ) by Richard Kunze and founded the DTSP local groups in Wilmersdorf, Steglitz Zehlendorf. Beginning in February 1925 initiated snake in Berlin, the short-lived United German national community that worked was founded in Berlin on 17 February the same year NSDAP. In the NSDAP snake had the membership number 4387th

From March 1925 to June 1926 was snake Gauleiter of the NSDAP in the district Berlin- Brandenburg, which had about 350 members. Schlanges tenure as Gauleiter of Berlin was marked by disputes over the course of the party. Snake, a close associate of Otto Strasser, spoke out against a foundation of the SA in Berlin, but could not prevail. In particular, from the Frontbann emerged formations of the SA who were in explicit opposition to snake. The political orientation was less controversial than the reserved price of the Nazi Party to gain power by legal means. Snake, which was criticized for his weak leadership style also within its own wing of the party, resigned in June 1926 as a Gauleiter.

Snake moved to Potsdam, where he took over the construction of the Nazi Party and was chairman of the local city council faction. In October 1930 he was appointed as successor to Emil Holtz Gauleiter of the Gau Brandenburg. In 1932 he was elected to the Prussian Landtag, which he belonged to the dissolution of the corporation in October 1933. In clashes between Snake and his organization leader Josef Schönwälder to the party structures in the district of the Imperial Government intervened in favor Schönwälder and pointed out that the situation in the party since Schlanges previous positions have changed as Gauleiter considerably. On March 16, 1933 snake was recalled as Gauleiter; later the district was merged with the Gau Gau Ostmark to the new Electorate. In 1934 he was appointed President of the General Directorate of the Prussian - South German Class Lottery.

Snake died in 1947 in Soviet custody.

Student Corp.

So give as unmistakably called snake in a letter dated September 28, 1934, " his leader" Adolf Hitler to to to redeem the connection hostile available Andreas Feickerts. As a successor of Max Blunck was snake in the fall of 1935, Chairman ( "leader" ) and the Association of KSCV age students Corp. (VAC ). On October 24, 1935, he decreed that " all rich German Corps are suspended ." The VAC was aware snake continue; to him met his justification for the suspension of the active corps not to. Snake drew up a new VAC Statute (approved by the Reich and of Prussia and was legally binding), an honor and weapons of Procedure of the VAC and an honor protection agreement between the VAC and the Reich Association of German officers ( April 1936 ).

Family

Ernst Schlanges eponymous snake cousin Ernst (1888-1967) was a farmer and sat 1932 for the NSDAP in the Reichstag, whose older brother Hans Snake Schoningen ( 1886-1960 ) was also a politician and last German postwar ambassador in London.