Wilhelm Henning
Wilhelm Henning | |
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| Born | Wilhelm Henning 26 July 1879 Lichterfelde, Berlin, East Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | Army officer |
| Known for | Politician |
| Political party | German National People's Party, German Völkisch Freedom Party, National Socialist Freedom Movement, Nazi Party |
Wilhelm Henning (26 July 1879 in
Lichterfelde, Berlin[1]) was a German military officer and right-wing
politician.
Military service
Henning enlisted as an officer in the
St Petersburg in 1918.[3]
Politics
Entering politics, Henning joined the
anti-Semitic and was close to the likes of Albrecht von Graefe, Reinhold Wulle and Richard Kunze, although the latter split from the DNVP in 1921 to form his own Deutschsoziale Partei.[4]
Rathenau controversy
Henning became notorious for an article of his that appeared in the June 1922 edition of Konservative Monatsschrift. In the article, 'The Real Face of Rapallo Terror', Henning denounced
far right anti-Semitic wing, including Henning.[6] In response Henning joined with Wulle and von Graefe in establishing the German Völkisch Freedom Party (DVFP) as a rightist splinter group. Henning continued to represent this group (as well as the National Socialist Freedom Movement, a joint list with the Nazi Party active after the Beer Hall Putsch) in the Reichstag until 1928.[2]
Later years
During the struggles for the leadership of the Völkisch movement between the DVFP and the Nazis Henning had been a strong critic of Adolf Hitler and had denounced him as "not a politician".[7] Despite this he would go one to serve as a Nazi Party member after the collapse of the DVFP.[3] Henning also served as the deputy chairman of the Verband nationalgesinnter Soldaten, a right-wing veterans organisation active in the 1920s.[2]
References
- ^ Death register of the Steglitz registry office in Berlin No. 2702/1945.
- ^ a b c d Detlef Mühlberger, Hitler's Voice: The Völkischer Beobachter, 1920-1933. Organisation & Development of the Nazi Party, Volume 1, Peter Lang, 2004, p. 239
- ^ a b Henning, Wilhelm
- ^ Donald L. Niewyk, The Jews in Weimar Germany, Transaction Publishers, 2001, p. 50
- ^ Hermann Beck, The Fateful Alliance: German Conservatives and Nazis in 1933: the Machtergreifung in a New Light, Berghahn Books, 2009, p. 37
- ^ Beck, The Fateful Alliance, pp. 37-8
- ^ Ian Kershaw, Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris, Penguin Books, 1998, p. 263
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