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Ludolf Haase
(1926)
Gauleiter of Gau Göttingen
later, Gau Hanover-South
In office
27 March 1925 – 20 July 1928
Appointed byAdolf Hitler
Preceded byPosition created
Succeeded byBernhard Rust
Personal details
Born(1898-01-06)6 January 1898
Hanover, Province of Hanover, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Died8 October 1972(1972-10-08) (aged 74)
Ilten, Lower Saxony, West Germany
CitizenshipGerman
Political partyNazi Party
Alma materUniversity of Göttingen
ProfessionPhysician

Ludolf Haase (6 January 1898, Hanover – 8 October 1972, Ilten) was a Nazi Party official who served as Gauleiter in Southern Hanover from 1925 to 1928.

Early life

After attending elementary school and high school, Haase studied medicine at the University of Göttingen. In Göttingen in 1921 he served as the local Chairman of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund, the largest, most active, and most influential anti-Semitic federation in Germany. In February 1922 he joined the Nazi Party and founded the first Ortsgruppe (local group) in Göttingen, becoming the Ortsgruppenleiter.[1]

Haase was personally devoted to Adolf Hitler, who was imprisoned at Landsberg prison in 1924 as a consequence of the Beer Hall Putsch. Haase had a continuous connection to Hitler through Haase's friend, Hermann Fobke, a member of the Stoßtrupp-Hitler, who was imprisoned in Landsberg with Hitler and acting as his correspondence secretary. While the Party was outlawed, Haase carried on activities as Bezirksleiter (District Leader) of the Hanover National Socialist Landesverband (State Association) a Nazi front organization.[2]

Nazi career

After the ban on the Party was lifted, Haase rejoined it on 6 March 1925 (membership number 2,827). On 27 March 1925, Haase was appointed the Gauleiter for Gau Göttingen. This was composed of the southern section of the Province of Hanover known as Regierungsbezirk (Governmental District) Hildesheim. Fobke was named Deputy Gauleiter. In December, the organization was redesignated Gau Hanover-South.[3]

In September 1925, Haase's Gau joined the National Socialist Working Association, a short-lived group of northern and western German Gaue, organized and led by Gregor Strasser. Haase and Fobke, strong advocates of non-participation in electoral politics, viewed this organization as a means to build additional support for their position, and they were able to obtain the group's consensus to advance a resolution to Hitler that pushed strongly for electoral abstention.[4]

On Strasser's initiative, a new draft program was drawn up to replace the Party program of 1920. However, both Haase and Fobke had reservations about the draft, finding it lacked sufficient völkisch content.[5] Subsequently, Hitler completely repudiated the proposed draft at the Bamberg Conference, a meeting that neither Fobke nor Haase attended,[6] and the Working Association was dissolved shortly thereafter.

Under Haase's leadership, according to the historian Hans-Jürgen Döscher, “the Hanover and Göttingen local groups developed into the most active and largest bases of the National Socialists in Lower Saxony”.[7] Haase suffered a head injury in an altercation with political opponents in 1927 and resigned as Gauleiter on 20 July 1928. Gau Hanover-South was merged with neighboring Gau Hanover-North under Bernhard Rust on 1 October, and was renamed Gau Southern Hanover-Brunswick.[3]

In February 1943, Haase took a position as a personal assistant to the State Secretary and SS-Obergruppenführer Herbert Backe in the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture.[3]

After World War II, Haase practiced medicine in Wunstorf in the Hanover area. In April 1949, the Denazification Committee of the city of Hanover classified him as Category IV (follower) and he was not jailed or sanctioned.[8] He died in Ilten, a village of the township of Sehnde in 1972.[9]

Bibliography

  • Döscher, Hans-Jürgen (2008). "Kampf gegen das Judenthum". Gustav Stille 1845–1920. Antisemit im Deutschen Kaiserreich (in German). Berlin: Metropol. ISBN 978-3-938690-90-1.
  • Höffkes, Karl (1986). Hitlers Politische Generale. Die Gauleiter des Dritten Reiches: ein biographisches Nachschlagewerk (in German). Tübingen: Grabert-Verlag. ISBN 3-87847-163-7.
  • Miller, Michael D.; Schulz, Andreas (2012). 'Gauleiter: The Regional Leaders of the Nazi Party and Their Deputies, 1925-1945. Vol. I (Herbert Albrecht - H. Wilhelm Hüttmann). R. James Bender Publishing. ISBN 978-1-932970-21-0.
  • Miller, Michael D.; Schulz, Andreas (2017). 'Gauleiter: The Regional Leaders of the Nazi Party and Their Deputies, 1925-1945. Vol. II (Georg Joel - Dr. Bernhard Rust). R. James Bender Publishing. ISBN 978-1-932970-32-6.
  • Noakes, Jeremy (October 1966). "Conflict and Development in the NSDAP 1924-1927". Journal of Contemporary History. 1 (4). Sage Publications, Ltd.: 19–35.
  • Noakes, Jeremy; Pridham, Geoffrey, eds. (1983). Nazism 1919-1945, Volume 1: The Rise to Power 1919-1934 (1998 ed.). University of Exeter Press. ISBN 0-85989 598 X.
  • Stachura, Peter D. (2015). Gregor Strasser and the Rise of Nazism. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-79862-5.

References

  1. ^ Höffkes 1986, p. 118.
  2. ^ Miller & Schulz 2012, p. 415.
  3. ^ a b c Miller & Schulz 2012, p. 416.
  4. ^ Noakes & Pridham 1998, pp. 43–44.
  5. ^ Stachura 2015, p. 48.
  6. ^ Noakes 1966, p. 29.
  7. ^ Döscher 2008, p. 90.
  8. ^ Döscher 2008, p. 94.
  9. ^ Miller & Schulz 2017, p. 450.
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