Alois Rosenwink

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Alois Rosenwink (around 1926).

Heinrich Alois Rosenwink (born August 1, 1898 in Munich , † May 26, 1969 in Weiden, Upper Palatinate) was a German political functionary and SS leader.

Live and act

Rosenwink, who lived as a businessman in Munich, was one of the first members of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), which he joined in 1922. In 1923 he was a member of the Adolf Hitler raid, which at that time was entrusted with the personal protection of Adolf Hitler .

On 8/9. November 1923 Rosenwink took part in the Hitler putsch in Munich, during which he took part in the occupation of the Bürgerbräukeller . After the coup failed, he was arrested. On April 28, 1924, the Munich People's Court sentenced him to one year and three months imprisonment for high treason for his involvement in the failed coup (file number C 422 23/24). Of these he served three months and 20 days in the Landsberg Fortress before he was released early on September 30, 1924.

When the NSDAP was re-established in 1925, Rosenwink was one of the first to rejoin it ( membership number 82). At that time he also participated in the establishment of the Schutzstaffel (SS), which was set up for the first time , in which he still received the rank of squadron leader in 1925 and was entrusted as a department head with the management of the SS Oberführung, the first administrative center of the SS. For this reason, Heinz Höhne also characterizes Rosenwink as the "actual organizer" of the early SS. Rosenwink is also one of the potential creators of the skull as an SS insignia:

"We wear the skull on our black hats as a warning to our enemies and as a sign of our leaders' commitment to his idea."

In contrast, the assumption made by Georg Franz-Willing that Rosenwink was a pseudonym that Alfred Rosenberg used at the time is incorrect. Since 1926, Rosenwink led an SS photo parade that promoted National Socialism with slide presentations. After this activity was no longer sufficient to finance his living, he settled in Auma in Thuringia in 1928, where he found work in a porcelain factory.

In 1928 Rosenwink resigned from the NSDAP as a result of a dispute with Adolf Rottenberger . On April 1, 1932, he rejoined the NSDAP (membership number 1.100.551). On February 1, 1932, he also became a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), in which he was successively promoted to Scharführer, Troop Leader, Sturmführer and Sturmhauptführer. Politically, however, Rosenwink no longer played a role. He earned his living from the mid-1930s as a Reich employee in the Air Force .

literature

  • Mathias Rösch: The Munich NSDAP 1925-1933 , 2002.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Register Office Munich I: Birth register for the year 1898, birth certificate 1898/6931.
  2. ↑ Heinz Höhe: The Order under the Totenkopf , 1967, p. 83.
  3. ^ Thamer: Seduction and violence. Germany 1933-1945. The Germans and their Nation , 1986, p. 134.
  4. ↑ Georg Franz Willing: The Hitler Movement: 1925 to 1934 , 2001, p. 40.
personal data
SURNAME Rosenwink, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political functionary and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century