Artur Missbach

Artur Missbach (born September 21, 1911 in Radebeul , † September 4, 1988 in Bremen ) was a German politician . During National Socialism he was a party functionary of the NSDAP , then a state and Bundestag member of the CDU .

Life

Candidate poster for the 1965 federal election

Missbach attended elementary school from 1918 to 1923 and the Lößnitzgymnasium , a secondary school in Radebeul, from 1923 to 1932 . On December 12, 1930, he joined the Hitler Youth (HJ) and on October 1, 1931, the NSDAP (membership number 658,808), where he became political leader (from September 1, 1931). After graduating from high school (March 1932), he studied law in Greifswald and Berlin . In the summer of 1935 he became head of the NSDAP, at the same time he received the Golden Party Badge; in the same year he passed the first state examination in law. On June 26, 1936, he made his legal traineeship. Missbach also repeatedly took part in training courses for political leaders. He worked for the DAF from 1935 to 1937 . In 1937 he was department head of the Reich Office for silk, rayon and rayon; in autumn 1937 he was deputy managing director of the German Textile Fabrics Working Group. Missbach was also a member of the SA , SS and from January 1937 to September 1939 in the DAF. In 1939 he was department head at the special representative for the textile industry in Berlin; He was also called up for service in the Reich Ministry of Economics with a focus on the textile industry and in the Army High Command . December 1942 he was managing director of the textile and clothing industry in the Generalgouvernement based in Krakow. In 1943 he was managing director of the textile, clothing and leather industry economic group in Krakow. In 1944 he was the deputy manager of the Upper Silesian Rubber Works in Trzebinia .

From 1946 he was a business advisor and in-house counsel for several business associations. He was also the owner of the publishing house Arbeit und Wirtschaft, which has been publishing the information letter he founded, Confidential Messages from Politics and Business , since 1951 . In 1947 he joined the CDU and was later chairman in the county of Hoya and in the administrative district of Hanover . On January 4, 1950, he was classified in category V ( exonerated) by the Hanover main denazification committee . On April 9, 1962, Missbach was a co-founder of the State and Economic Society . From 1955 to 1961 he was a member of the Parliament of Lower Saxony, after he was with the direct mandate of his constituency Fallingbostel - Hoya in two terms until 1969. Member of the Bundestag .

At the end of the 1960s he used Bundestag letterhead to advertise IOS certificates and sold them under the pseudonym Sebastian Bach. IOS went bankrupt in 1973 .

literature

• Died: Artur Missbach . In: Der Spiegel . No. 38 , 1988, pp. 270 ( online ).
• Stephan A. Glienke: The Nazi past of a later member of the Lower Saxony state parliament. Final report on a project of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen on behalf of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Published by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Revised reprint of the first edition. Hannover 2012, p. 180 ( online as PDF) .

Web links

• Literature by and about Artur Missbach in the catalog of the German National Library
• Former member of the constituency of Nienburg

Footnotes

1. ↑ Hans-Peter Klausch : Brown Roots - Old Nazis in the Lower Saxony state parliament groups of the CDU, FDP and DP. On the Nazi past of Lower Saxony state parliament members in the post-war period. Hanover 2008, p. 9 ( PDF; 1.8 MB ).
2. ↑ Andreas Speit : When generals celebrate . In: Jungle World . No. 23, June 5, 2002
3. ↑ Confidential communications: About us
4. ↑ Kurt Blauhorn & Roderich Schneider: "Already brought in a few million dollars" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 3 , 1968, p. 32 ( online - Spiegel interview with IOS board chairman Dr. Erich Mende ).