Adolf Rottenberger

Johann Martin Adolf Rottenberger (born April 8, 1878 in Schweinfurt , † August 9, 1945 in Munich ) was a German businessman and political functionary ( NSDAP ).

Life

Rottenberger was a son of Josef Lucas Rottenberger and his wife Ana Marie Maria geb. Ruppert. Rottenberger settled down as a merchant in Munich after the First World War . He joined the NSDAP for the first time on September 22, 1922 ( membership number 7,698). From April to November 1923 he took over the leadership of a Munich hundred of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the party army of the NSDAP. After participating in the failed Hitler putsch on November 8th and 9th, 1923 , Rottenberger became involved in the German Volksgemeinschaft (German People's Community) , a rescue organization for the banned NSDAP, to which he had belonged since April 10th, 1924.

On October 10, 1925, Rottenberger was one of the first to join the newly founded NSDAP (membership number 23.033). As a co-founder of the Schutzstaffel (SS), he took over the office of Reich Treasurer of the SS from 1927 to 1929.

In 1926 Rottenberger founded a business called the Reichswirtschaftsstelle, which until around 1930 assumed a key role in supplying NSDAP and SA members with uniforms and equipment. Rottenberger's partner in this company, which was housed in Rottenberger's house Im Tal 24 / II in Munich, was the then SS chief Erhard Heiden . In June 1927, Adolf Hitler confirmed the company as the sole supplier of the SA. A series of scandals, according to reports in social democratic newspapers, that Rottenberger had drawn excessive profits from the business at the expense of his party customers and that a Jewish company had been one of the suppliers to the Reichswirtschaftsstelle, ultimately led the Reich leadership of the NSDAP to appoint the Supreme SA- Management commissioned to set up their own goods exchange. This gradually pulled the business of the Rottenberger company to itself, so that his company had to file for bankruptcy around 1931. In this context, Rottenberger resigned from the SS in January 1929, but continued to have a good relationship with Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler , for whom he was temporarily active in providing information. A party court case against Rottenberger to investigate the events around the Reich economic office was also set.

From 1932 Rottenberger was employed by the Reich leadership of the NSDAP. On August 1, 1934, he was awarded the " Blood Order " of the NSDAP (No. 614) and on April 19, 1940 the NSDAP's Golden Medal of Honor .

During the Second World War , Rottenberger can be proven to have lived in Melusinenstrasse in Munich. There is no information about the time thereafter.

family

Rottenberger was married to Käthe Konieczna with whom he had at least one son.

literature

• Mathias Rösch: The Munich NSDAP 1925–1933. An investigation into the internal structure of the NSDAP in the Weimar Republic , 2002.