Albert Derichsweiler

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Albert Derichsweiler
Albert Derichsweiler (left) during a rally at Berlin University in 1934. In the middle, Rector Eugen Fischer .

Albert Derichsweiler (born July 6, 1909 in Bad Niederbronn / Alsace ; † January 6, 1997 in Munich ) was a high-ranking National Socialist student functionary during the Nazi era , including the federal leader of the National Socialist German Student Union (NSDStB) from 1934 to 1936 During the war he was involved as a local and state politician in the German Party and the FDP .

Nazi career

Derichsweiler had been a member of the Hitler Youth since 1929 . From 1931 to 1937 he studied law in Bonn , Münster and Cologne . Since December 1930 a member of the NSDAP , membership number 394.037, he joined the NSDStB and the SA in 1931 . After his move to Munster it belonged 1931 to 1935 the local CV connection Sauerlandia to which he in the winter semester 1932/33 as a senior board.

In April 1933 he was appointed NSDStB-Hochschulgruppenführer and at the same time leader of the Münster student body . In May of the same year he appeared as a speaker at the book burning in Munster. The Nazi regime drove the DC circuit determined to forge; Derichsweiler quickly made a career in the following months, among other things as 'Kreisführer West' of the NSDStB, district leader of the German student body and head of the CV, before he took over the federal leadership of the NSDStB on August 1, 1934 as "Reichsleiter".

In this position, which he held until November 1936, Derichsweiler made a name for himself as an advocate of an uncompromising elimination of traditional student associations , the majority of which broke up after a brief phase of resistance in the course of 1935 in order to avoid integration (see also the history of the Student associations ) or incorporated into the NSDStB. In May 1935 he himself had left his association. On June 25, 1935, in his function as "Leader of the NSDStB", he issued guidelines for ideological training in the corporations. In the course of this development, there were repeated power struggles with the German student body , led by the National Socialist Andreas Feickert , as both organizations claimed the political leadership of the student body for themselves. In order to end this rivalry, which was disruptive to the Nazi leadership, both Derichsweiler and Feickert were finally deposed and their functions were merged under Gustav Adolf Scheel in a uniform Reich student leadership .

Derichsweiler was then appointed to the staff of Rudolf Hess as SA-Obersturmführer and, according to his own statements, “did not emerge further until the end of the war”. In fact, in the years that followed he held numerous offices and functions in the Nazi state, e. B. Reich speaker of the NSDAP, member of the uninfluential Reichstag (1936 to 1938), Gauobmann of the DAF as well as briefly President of the Gauarbeitskammer in Warthegau in 1943 , before spending the last two years of the war as a soldier in the Waffen-SS , with the last rank of SS-Obersturmführer .

Derichsweiler stood out as an ideologue when, during the intensification of the church struggle in 1936, Hitler's slogan “ Positive Christianity ” was interpreted in such a way that Christians have lagged behind and should only occasionally not be attacked to protect them. The Protestant churches resisted this tightening, which endangered their previous position of asserting the unproblematic agreement between National Socialism and Protestantism. Church leaders and BK people had quoted the slogan of positive Christianity again and again in order to assure themselves of Hitler's alleged support in the fighting.

post war period

After the end of the war, Derichsweiler initially worked as a businessman and then became involved in the national-conservative German party , of which he was the Hessian state chairman in the early 1950s. In 1952 he was elected to the city council of Frankfurt am Main . A year later he switched to the FDP . On January 12, 1955, he replaced August-Martin Euler in the Hessian state parliament . He left the FDP parliamentary group on May 2, 1956 and joined the FDP split-off Free People's Party , of which he was federal manager. With this, Derichsweiler finally returned to the DP in 1957 and was re-elected as the Hessian state chairman and held this office until 1959. After the merger of the DP and GB / BHE , he ran for the merger of the All-German Party on the Hessian state list and unsuccessfully in the 1961 federal election in the Bundestag constituency of Hanau .

Derichsweiler was elected President of the German Society for Solar Energy in 1978 .

literature

  • Sebastian Felz: Albert Derichsweiler (1909–1997). An arsonist's career. In: Anja Gussek, Daniel Schmidt, Christoph Spieker (eds.): Public censorship and book burning in Münster. A documentation published on the occasion of the unveiling of a memorial plaque on May 6, 2009 (= Villa ten Hompel Aktuell 12). Villa ten Hompel, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-935811-05-7 , pp. 21-37. ( Chapter online as PDF; 1.13 MB )
  • Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , pp. 38-39.
  • Albrecht Kirschner: Final report of the working group on the preliminary study “Nazi past of former Hessian state parliament members” of the commission of the Hessian state parliament for the research project “Political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse” . Ed .: Hessischer Landtag . Wiesbaden 2013, p. 8, 23, 26–29, 31–32, 34–36, 39, 49 ( Download [PDF; 479 kB ]).
  • Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 234 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
  • Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 105.
  • 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 , pp. 95–96.
  • Albert Derichsweiler , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 35/1959 from August 17, 1959, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  • Rainer Pöppinghege: Book burning as a career springboard: "Reichsstudentenbundsführer" Albert Derichsweiler (1934–1936). In: GDS-Archiv , Vol. 9, 2011, pp. 137–155.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b History of the KDStV Sauerlandia (PDF; 178 kB), p. 4.
  2. ^ Albert Derichsweiler in the database of members of the Reichstag
  3. from the NSDAP party program of 1920
  4. Even those Christians who have the honest will to serve their people must be fought, it was said in a student training camp. When the party program speaks of "positive Christianity", it is not really Christianity, but more generally positive religiosity. You couldn't say that straight away. Because the doctor cannot tell the whole truth to a sick person. These statements have been expressly confirmed by the Reichsamtsleiter Derichsweiler . Source ( memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), To Protestant Christianity and the authorities in Germany, pulpit announcement by the Confessing Church of Germany on Sunday. August 23, 1936. Printed by: Silesian Confession Synod Naumburg; Ed. Heinrich Benckert ; Brehmer & Minuth, Breslau 1936; Derichsweiler's attack on July 20, 1944 and the legacy of the German resistance. Ed. Günter Brakelmann , Manfred Keller. Lit, Münster 2005 ISBN 3825885615 , p. 48; again in Margot Käßmann , Anke Silomon Hgg .: God wants to see action. Christian resistance against Hitler. CH Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 3406644538 ; both can be viewed online
  5. Christof Brauers: The FDP in Hamburg 1945 to 1953. Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-89975-569-5 , page 587. ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  6. http://www.kgparl.de/online-volksvertretung/mdb-d.pdf Genealogie Dead Link | url = http: //www.kgparl.de/online-volksvertretung/mdb-d.pdf | date = 2018 -08 | archivebot = 2018-08-22 19:59:54 InternetArchiveBot}} (link not available)
  7. Carsten Krystofiak: Time travel: Eastern Front on the Canal - Research without end: The historian Christian Steinhagen knows everything about "The Brown Minster". In: Ultimo, No. 11/13, May 13, 2013 - May 26, 2013, p. 8f.