Adolf Schmidt-Bodenstedt

Adolf Schmidt-Bodenstedt

Adolf Schmidt-Bodenstedt , for short just Adolf Schmidt , (born April 9, 1904 in Fallersleben , † August 18, 1981 in Bad Harzburg ) was a German elementary school teacher and politician of the NSDAP , after 1945 a member of the FDP . He was parliamentary group leader of the NSDAP in the Braunschweig Landtag and from 1933 to 1945 a member of the Reichstag .

Life

The son of a railway worker, born under the name Adolf Schmidt, finished secondary school and then attended the teachers' seminar . From 1925 to 1930 he worked as a primary school teacher. He had been a member of the NSDAP since 1923 and took over the district leadership in the Braunschweig Land area from 1927 to 1930.

Career in the Nazi state

In 1930 Schmidt-Bodenstädt was elected to the Braunschweig Landtag. The National Socialist Minister Dietrich Klagges appointed him in 1931 as an assistant in the Brunswick Ministry of Education. In 1933, Klagges, who had meanwhile risen to the position of Prime Minister, appointed him to the government council and in 1934 to the senior government councilor. Klagges also appointed him deputy of the Brunswick Ministry of the Interior and Public Education and appointed him honorary councilor. He was a co-founder of the Nazi teachers' association in Braunschweig, whose chairman of the southern Hanover-Braunschweig district he was. On November 19, 1933, he was appointed to the National Socialist Reichstag , of which he remained a member until 1945. In 1934 he was entrusted with the management of the “ Landjahr ” and “ Elementary School Teachers ” departments in the newly formed Reich Ministry for Science, Education and National Education in Berlin . The appointment to Ministerialrat followed in July 1935, to Ministerialdirigenten in 1939. He was " Reich speaker of the NSDAP ", Gauamtsleiter in the Office for Educators ( NS Teachers Association ) for the Gau Südhannover-Braunschweig and holder of the Golden Party Badge . The Hitler Youth , he belonged as an area leader of honorary. Schmidt-Bodenstedt was the highest Landjahrführer and was appointed to the Prussian State Council. As ministerial director, he headed department E VI “Teacher Training” in the Ministry of Education.

In essays and speeches, he propagated the awareness of teachers in terms of National Socialism .

After the Second World War

After the end of the Second World War , Schmidt-Bodenstedt was interned by the Allied military government for two years . Since 1948, his new place of residence was Bad Harzburg, where he worked as a choir director, among other things. He joined the FDP and became politically active in the local council of Bündheim .

His writings country year. Plan and design (Armanen-Verlag, Leipzig 1937) and reorganization of teacher training (Diesterweg, Frankfurt a. M. 1942) were placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone . In the German Democratic Republic , this list was followed by the teaching and education he published at teacher training institutes (Deutscher Schulverlag, Berlin 1944).

Awards

• Golden party badge of the NSDAP

Fonts (selection)

• Country year. Plan and design. Armanen-Verlag, Leipzig 1937, DNB 576059056 .
• Reorganization of teacher education. Diesterweg, Frankfurt am Main 1942, DNB 362628084 .
• Teaching and education at teacher training institutions. German school publisher, Berlin 1944, DNB 366601598 .

literature

• Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 .
• Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz, Arend Mindermann (eds.): Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians, 1919–1945. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 .
• Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).
• Reinhard Bein : Hitler's Brunswick staff. DöringDruck, Braunschweig 2017, ISBN 978-3-925268-56-4 , pp. 246-253.

Web links

• Literature by and about Adolf Schmidt-Bodenstedt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Adolf Schmidt-Bodenstedt in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Short biography - Project officials of the National Socialist Reich Ministries

Individual evidence

1. ^ Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the national and national socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , pp. 573-574.
2. ^ ^{A b c} Adolf Schmidt-Bodenstedt - Officials of National Socialist Reich Ministries . In: Officials of National Socialist Reich Ministries . February 5, 2018 ( ns-reichsministerien.de [accessed March 30, 2018]).
3. ^ Paul Egon Huebinger: Thomas Mann, the University of Bonn and contemporary history. Munich, Vienna 1974, p. 415.
4. ^ Negotiations of the Reichstag in 1938
5. ↑ Uwe Danker, Astrid Schwabe: Schleswig-Holstein and National Socialism. 2nd edition, Neumünster, 2006, ISBN 3-529-02810-X . P. 59.
6. ↑ List of literature to be sorted out 1946 on polunbi.de
7. ↑ List of the literature to be sorted out 1953 on polunbi.de