11 Facts About Karl Dincklage

Karl Dincklage was a German Nazi Party official and an Oberfuhrer in the Sturmabteilung.

Karl Dincklage served as the Deputy Gauleiter and Deputy Supreme SA Leader in Hanover.

Karl Dincklage was awarded the Iron Cross, first class, and at the end of the war in 1918, he retired from active military service with the rank of Major.

Karl Dincklage settled in Hanover and became politically active, serving as the local secretary of the conservative German National People's Party.

In early 1925, Karl Dincklage joined the Nazi Party when the ban imposed on it following the Beer Hall Putsch was lifted, serving as the business manager in the Hanover local office.

In March 1925, Karl Dincklage was appointed Deputy Gauleiter and Gau-SA Fuhrer of the newly formed Gau Hanover-North, and continued to head the local Hanover office until 1929.

Karl Dincklage was for a time an editor for the local weekly Nazi newspaper named the Niedersachsischer Beobachter.

Karl Dincklage was named to one of these as Deputy Supreme SA Leader-North, based in Hanover.

On 1 October 1928, Gau Hanover-North absorbed Gau Hanover-South to form Gau Southern Hanover-Brunswick and Karl Dincklage remained in his Deputy Gauleiter position under Rust.

In early 1930, Karl Dincklage fell ill with pneumonia, the result, it was supposed, from bicycling in inclement winter weather.

Karl Dincklage spent many months in treatment, and died on 7 October 1930.