Wilhelm Karpenstein was a German Nazi Party politician.
16 Facts About Wilhelm Karpenstein
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Wilhelm Karpenstein served as Gauleiter of Pomerania from 1931 to 1934.
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Wilhelm Karpenstein was born the son of a train inspector in Frankfurt am Main.
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In 1923, with the Nazi Party banned, Wilhelm Karpenstein joined the German Volkisch Freedom Party.
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In 1924 Wilhelm Karpenstein became the editor of the Norddeutscher Beobachter the first National Socialist newspaper in Pomerania.
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In 1925 Wilhelm Karpenstein returned to Hesse for four years, working as a law clerk.
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On 31 August 1925 Wilhelm Karpenstein joined the re-founded Nazi Party.
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Wilhelm Karpenstein served as the Party Ortsgruppenleiter for Darmstadt for the next four years.
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In 1929, after passing the bar exam, Wilhelm Karpenstein returned to Greifswald where he worked as a lawyer.
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Wilhelm Karpenstein was appointed Nazi Kreisleiter for Greifswald.
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On 1 April 1931, Wilhelm Karpenstein was appointed Gauleiter of Pomerania to succeed Walther von Corswant.
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Wilhelm Karpenstein did not present this problem, as he was conservative and pro-middle class.
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Wilhelm Karpenstein was one of the Prussian representatives to the Reichsrat until its abolition on 14 February 1934.
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However, unlike many other Gauleiters, Wilhelm Karpenstein did not succeed in obtaining the office of Provincial Oberprasident, after the removal of Carl von Halfern on 1 October 1933.
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Ostensibly Wilhelm Karpenstein was dismissed for his supposed links to Gregor Strasser and his failure to work with Hermann Goring.
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Wilhelm Karpenstein was arrested by the Gestapo and held under house arrest from October 1934 to July 1936, when he was pardoned and released, with the condition that he never live in Pomerania.