Adolf Hühnlein

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Adolf Hühnlein
Adolf Hühnlein (right behind Hitler) at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Reichsautobahn in 1933

Adolf Hühnlein (born September 12, 1881 in Neustädtlein near Kulmbach , † June 18, 1942 in Munich ) was a German officer and corps leader of the National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK).

Life

Chicken was the son of a teacher. He married Paula Däumling in 1906. The marriage had three children.

Military career

Hühnlein graduated from the humanistic high school in Bayreuth and joined the 7th Infantry Regiment “Prince Leopold” of the Bavarian Army in October 1900 as a one-year volunteer . In mid-January 1901 he was transferred to the 1st Engineer Battalion. After successfully attending military school, Hühnlein was promoted to lieutenant on March 9, 1902 . After being assigned to the Amberg rifle factory and to the artillery and engineering school , Hühnlein was transferred to the telegraph detachment in early March 1907 . From 1909 to 1912 Hühnlein graduated from the war academy , which pronounced him qualified for the higher adjutantage and the subject. Subsequently, he was used as an adjutant in the pioneer inspection and, with the promotion to captain on October 1, 1913, was ordered to inspect the engineer corps . On April 25, 1914, he was transferred to this.

At the beginning of the First World War , Hühnlein was transferred to the staff of the General of the Pioneers at Army High Command 6 . On April 1, 1916, he returned to the service and became the leader of Reserve Pioneer Company 5. With her he was on duty in Romania until the beginning of 1917 . On January 22, 1917, he briefly joined the staff of the 1st Pioneer Replacement Battalion and from February 10 to November 2, 1917 was the commander of the 15 Pioneer Battalion on the Western Front . This was followed by his transfer as second general staff officer to the staff of the 15th Division . In May 1918 Hühnlein joined the staff of the General Command z. b. V. 57 , where he saw the end of the war.

After the war he became a company commander in the Epp Freikorps . Soon afterwards he was accepted into the provisional Reichswehr . There it was first used in the Engineer Battalion 21. After the formation of the Reichswehr , Hühnlein joined the staff of Infantry Leader VII and as a major in 1923 on the staff of Group Command 1 in Berlin . In the same year he was assigned to the Jüterbog artillery school. As a member of the " Federal Reich War Flag ", Hühnlein acted in the Hitler-Ludendorff Putsch in November 1923 and had to serve six months in prison in Munich-Stadelheim and Landsberg am Lech . He was then released from the Reichswehr on December 31, 1923.

National Socialism

After his departure, Hühnlein was appointed to the " Supreme SA leadership " and in 1925 quartermaster of the NSDAP . Ernst Röhm appointed Hühnlein as SA-Obergruppenführer and in 1927 as chief of SA motor vehicles. In 1930 he founded the SA motor troops and the National Socialist Automobile Corps (NSAK), and in 1931 the National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK) as a subdivision of the SA.

In June 1933 he was entrusted as NSKK corps leader with the task of organizing the amalgamation of the SA's own motor vehicle system and that of the NSKK. He was also elected as a member of the Reichstag in the same year . In 1934 he organized the 2000 km through Germany rally . On September 1, 1934, after the murder of Ernst Röhm, Hitler appointed him corps leader of the new NSKK, which had been upgraded to an independent NSDAP organization. Hühnlein was also appointed President of the Supreme National Sports Commission for Motor Sports in Germany . In this role he accompanied the Silver Arrows of Auto Union and Mercedes-Benz to national and international races and also organized the speed record drives on the AVUS and the Frankfurt-Darmstadt motorway. During one of these record runs, Bernd Rosemeyer had a fatal accident in 1938. Since almost all German racing drivers were members of the NSKK, Hühnlein took Siege as an opportunity to promote successful drivers.

On May 14, 1936, Hühnlein received the character of Major General of the Wehrmacht . On November 8, 1938, a report appeared in the Völkischer Beobachter , according to which Hühnlein and the chief engineer Winkelmann undertook a “record drive” on the Reichsautobahn route Berlin-Munich in a motor vehicle (5.4 l) . He covered the total distance of 527 kilometers in around four hours. On February 22, 1940, Hühnlein was given the function of "Commissioner for the motorized transport of the war economy". His direct superior was Hermann Göring . Hühnlein was also a member of the board of directors of the Reichsautobahnen Society and a member of the Reichsverkehrsrat and the Reichsarbeitskammer . During the Second World War he was commissioner for the motorized transport of the war economy.

Hühnlein received a state funeral after his death and Hitler posthumously awarded him the highest distinction of the NSDAP, the German Order .

The NSKK to a paramilitary organization of the armed forces or the state, which took care of the training of Kraftfahrer- and Automotive Sports young and in the occupied territories and during the Second World War as a transport organization has been under the leadership of Adolf Hühnlein deportations to the death camps used was . Erwin Kraus was his successor as NSKK corps leader .

Honors

Hühnlein was an honorary citizen of the city of Bayreuth and the city of Ahrweiler . The motorsport school of the NSKK Nordmark in Nordoe was called "Adolf Hühnlein". The building is used today by the Federal Network Agency .

literature

Web links

Commons : Adolf Hühnlein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Othmar Hackl: The Bavarian War Academy (1867-1914). CH Beck´sche publishing house bookstore. Munich 1989. ISBN 3-406-10490-8 . P. 482.
  2. ↑ Postcard with the building. ( Memento of the original from March 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.globalpostcards.de
personal data
SURNAME Chicken, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR, leader of the National Socialist Motorist Corps (NSKK)
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustädtlein near Kulmbach
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1942
Place of death Munich