Paul Hinkler

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Paul Hinkler

Paul Georg Otto Hinkler (born June 25, 1892 in Berlin , † probably April 13, 1945 in Nißmitz ) was a teacher, soldier in the First World War and a prominent National Socialist ( old fighter ). He became Gauleiter of the NSDAP and SA group leader, was police chief of Altona and Wandsbek from 1933 and temporarily at the same time head of the Gestapo of the Schleswig administrative region. After leaving his post as a result of the incorporation of Altona into Hamburg , he became police chief of Wuppertal.

Life until 1933

Hinkler spent his youth in Thorn , where he attended elementary school and grammar school and completed the teachers' seminar . He participated as a volunteer , first in Warsaw and, from August 1918, the Western Front in the First World War in part. He suffered a nervous breakdown at Soissons and was sent to Thorn hospital. Dismissed from army service as a lieutenant in the reserve in 1919 , he became a teacher in Zippow near Schneidemühl . In the same year he joined the Eastern Border Guard in Posen-West Prussia and became a section leader. He also married Friederike Scholz in 1919 . In 1920 he became a member of the Marburg student corps in Gotha and Ohrdruf . In 1921 he passed his second teacher examination. In August 1921 he was transferred to Freyburg (Unstrut) .

Between 1922 and 1924 Hinkler was a member of the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten . On July 15, 1922, he joined the NSDAP. During the prohibition of the NSDAP, Hinkler worked in the Wehrwolf in 1923/24 and in the Frontbann , a catch-all organization for the also banned SA, in 1924/25 . After the re-admission of the NSDAP, he joined the party on May 7 or 27, 1925 ( membership number 5,492).

Because of his political activities, Hinkler had previously been put into temporary retirement on May 1, 1925. On August 11, 1926, he was dismissed from school because of a violent crime and was given final retirement. Another source speaks of embezzlement as a reason for dismissal. He was henceforth a criminal record. In his later self-portrayal as a member of the Reichstag, Hinkler attributed the dismissal only to his “work for National Socialism” .

In the NSDAP, Hinkler initially worked as a local group leader and district leader in the Halle-Merseburg district . Between 1927 and 1931 he was a city councilor and city councilor in Halle (Saale) . In June 1926 he was commissioned as Gau-SA-Führer with the establishment and formation of the SA in the Gau Halle-Merseburg. On July 25, 1926, he was appointed Gauleiter of the Halle-Merseburg district as the successor to Walter Ernst . In 1927 the Gau was expanded by a few districts.

In the election to the Prussian state parliament in May 1928, Hinkler ran in vain; but he received a mandate in the provincial parliament of the Prussian province of Saxony and headed the NSDAP parliamentary group there. On October 10, 1930, he was elected member of the third Prussian state parliament, in which he was temporarily parliamentary group manager of the NSDAP and chairman of the budget committee (main committee). He also belonged to the fourth state parliament (1932/33).

On May 5, 1930, Hinkler became a member of the National Socialist Motor Corps with membership number 13 . In 1931 he was given leave of absence as a Gauleiter; Rudolf Jordan succeeded him on January 19, 1931. In 1932 Hinkler became a member of the Advisory Board of the Prussian State Bank ( Seehlassung ). He also published the daily newspaper Der Kampf .

Life after seizure of power

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, Hinkler was appointed police chief of Altona-Wandsbek on March 29, 1933 , who headed the joint police force for the two independent Prussian cities of Altona and Wandsbek . With that he was also the head of the Secret State Police. From July 29, 1933, when regional competencies were redistributed, he was still head of the Gestapo in the Schleswig region. Hinkler was responsible for the persecution of Jews, Democrats and Communists and all other persons and groups who were considered enemies of the new state.

In this capacity he was very committed to the persecution of the Jews. He complained to the governing mayor of the neighboring city of Hamburg, "that the police in Hamburg are too cautious about the Jewish question". He also took radical action against Democrats. On August 11, 1933, he requested in a letter to the management of the Emsland camps, also responsible for the Esterwegen concentration camp, that one of his predecessors, the Social Democrat Otto Eggerstedt , police chief of Altona and Wandsbek from 1929 to 1932, moved to Esterwegen on August 12 should be carefully guarded . Otto Eggerstedt was treated accordingly and on October 12, 1933 in the Esterwegen concentration camp - as it was officially called - "shot while trying to escape".

From October 30, 1933, Hinkler was employed as a deserving and reliable National Socialist State Commissioner in Emden after the lawful mayor had been driven out of his office. Hinkler helped out with the synchronization and appointed a National Socialist as the new mayor.

On November 15, 1933, Hinkler was briefly appointed head of the Gestapo in Berlin by Hermann Göring as the successor to Rudolf Diels, who had fled to Czechoslovakia . He had to vacate this office after two weeks because of an intrigue. SA circles had spread rumors of an alleged mental weakness of Hinkler.

Hinkler remained police chief of Altona-Wandsbek and head of the Gestapo control center "Schleswig". Hinkler lost both offices on March 31, 1937 as a result of the territorial reorganization through the Greater Hamburg Act . After he had previously applied unsuccessfully in the Reichstag election on March 29, 1936, Hinkler had moved up for Cuno Meyer in the National Socialist Reichstag on July 20, 1936 . At that time, a seat in the Reichstag had no other function than providing deserving NSDAP people with additional supplies and applauding Hitler's appearances on the rare days of meetings.

On August 29, 1938, Hinkler became the acting police chief of Wuppertal ; on March 8, 1939 he officially took over the office. In 1940 Hinkler was temporarily drafted into the Wehrmacht . In the SA Hinkler was promoted several times, the last on November 9, 1942 to SA group leader. After conflicts with the Düsseldorf Gauleiter Friedrich Karl Florian Hinkler with effect from December 1, 1943 in the active status are added.

At the end of the war, Hinkler committed suicide, probably on April 13, 1945 in Nißmitz near Freyburg an der Unstrut, according to other information in May 1945.

literature

  • Christoph Graf: Political police between democracy and dictatorship. The development of the Prussian Political Police from the state security organ of the Weimar Republic to the Secret State Police Office of the Third Reich. With a foreword by Walther Hofer. Individual publications by the Historical Commission in Berlin, volume. 36. Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-7678-0585-5 .
  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
  • Gerhard Paul : State terror and social brutality. The Gestapo in Schleswig-Holstein. With the collaboration of Erich Koch. Results, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-87916-037-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lilla: Extras. P. 249f.
  2. ^ HB Gisevius: Until the bitter end. Part II. Zurich 1946, p. 71.
  3. ^ Handbook of the Reichstag. 1938, p. 250.
  4. ↑ Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Edition for the 5th electoral term (from 1933 onwards). Berlin 1933, p. 337.
  5. ^ Frank Bajohr: Aryanization in Hamburg. Hamburg 1997, p. 46f.
  6. ↑ Akens-Infoseiten-Eggerstedt. Documents and materials on the Stolperstein Otto Eggerstedt. Hamburg 2008.
  7. ↑ Dietmar von Reeken : Ostfriesland between Weimar and Bonn: a case study on the problem of historical continuity using the example of the cities of Aurich and Emden . Lax Hildesheim 1991. The book appeared in the publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen, Sources and Studies on the History of Lower Saxony after 1945; Vol. 7. ISBN 3-7848-3057-9 , p. 121
  8. ^ Gerhard Paul : State terror and social brutality. The Gestapo in Schleswig-Holstein. With the collaboration of Erich Koch. Results, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-87916-037-6 , p. 29ff.
  9. ↑ Consistent: Lilla: extras. P. 249f. and biographical entry in the Federal Archives, files of the Reich Chancellery
  10. ↑ Horst Romeyk: The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945. (= Publications of the Society for Rhenish History. Volume 69) Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , pp. 138, 258.
personal data
SURNAME Hinkler, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hinkler, Georg Otto Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR, Gauleiter
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: April 13, 1945
Place of death Nißmitz