August Schirmer

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August Schirmer

August Schirmer (born June 16, 1905 in Celle ; † October 30, 1948 there ) was a German architect , civil engineer , head of the Rosenberg office and a member of the Reichstag .

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Schirmer visited a high school in Celle and studied at the Technische Hochschule Hannover architecture . After graduating in 1929, he worked as a site manager at the Prussian Building Department in Torgau . From 1930 to 1933 he was a research assistant at the Technical University in Hanover. From the winter semester of 1935/36 onwards, like Joachim Mrugowsky , he carried out events on the subject of "Political, ideological education" at the Technical University of Hanover, in which so-called "genetic biology issues" were dealt with.

In May 1929 he joined the National Socialist German Student Union (NSDStB) and in February 1930 the NSDAP . In Hanover he was from the beginning of February 1930 country leader of the Combat League for German Culture (KfdK). From July 1933 he acted within the party as regional training manager and regional culture warden in the southern Hanover-Braunschweig district . From July 1934, Schirmer was a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for constituency 6 (Pomerania) .

From November 1, 1935, Schirmer was the head of the main branch of the “ Fuhrer's commissioner for the entire intellectual and ideological education of the NSDAP ”, the party ideologist Alfred Rosenberg . Through Schirmer, "the archive and the library of the world service by donation from the [...] butcher " were officially transferred to the Rosenberg office. Schirmer formally became editor of the anti-Semitic magazine Welt-Dienst . From 1938 onwards, the editorial staff of the magazine operated under the Rosenberg Office as the Office for Jewish and Freemason Issues , which Schirmer was in charge of.

On July 22, 1940, Schirmer, who was regarded as a “specialist” in questions of Judaism and Freemasonry , opened the newly established “ West Office ” of the Reichsleiter Rosenberg Task Force in Paris in the Hotel Commodore on Boulevard Haussmann in Avenue d'Iéna No. 54. The office, which was headed by Georg Ebert , was operational. On July 28th, two wagons with musical instruments arrived from Paris in the direction of “Amt Musik” in Berlin. Even William Gray , the Schirmer together with Gotthard Urban already with regard to the establishment of the end of 1938, the Institute for the Study of the Jewish question had visited, began from then on with its uninhibited activity in Paris.

The, as the historian Reinhard Bollmus stated, "rather meaningless" office for Jewish and Freemason issues was incorporated into the main office for supranational powers of the Rosenberg office in 1942 under the direction of Hans Hagemeyer . After the incorporation, Schirmer did military service in the Wehrmacht from March 15, 1942 . On September 9, 1942, he was shot in the head in Russia. His replacement as editor of the Welt-Dienst took place in September 1943 after he had come under suspicion of fraud and furthermore "character deficiencies" were attested to him. He was accused of having privately appropriated a stamp collection confiscated in Paris. However, both were intrigues. He was unable to work until his death, but was interned in 1945. After his release in spring 1948 he lived in Celle.

Schirmer died on October 30, 1948 in Celle as a result of his war injury. He was buried on the war cemetery, which was prepared by the Volksbund , in the city cemetery in Celle.

literature

  • 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 Bollmus: The Rosenberg Office and its opponents. Studies on the power struggle in the National Socialist system of rule . With a bibliographical essay by Stephan Lehnstaedt . 2nd Edition. Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-486-54501-9 .
  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Database of members of the Reichstag entry August Schirmer
  2. ^ Karen Bayer, Frank Sparing, Wolfgang Woelk: Universities and colleges in National Socialism and in the early post-war period . Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004, ISBN 978-3-515-08175-7 , pp. 44 .
  3. ↑ Reinhard Bollmus: The Office Rosenberg and his opponents , p. 293.
  4. ↑ Erich Stockhorst: 5000 heads - Who was what in the Third Reich , p. 381.
  5. ↑ a b Reinhard Bollmus: The Office Rosenberg and his opponents , p. 68, p. 121f.
  6. ↑ From March 1941 the address of "West Office" was: Berlin-Charlottenburg , Bismarckstrasse 1. This relocation of the seat indicates the attack on the Soviet Union that was about to take place and the task force was faced with new robbery tasks.
  7. ^ Willem de Vries: Art theft in the west 1940 - 1945. Alfred Rosenberg and the special staff music . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-596-14768-9 , pp. 99 f .
  8. ↑ Dieter Schiefelbein: The "Institute for Research into the Jewish Question Frankfurt am Main". Prehistory and foundation 1935-1939 . Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-88270-803-4 , p. 20th f., 34, 38 .
  9. ↑ Magnus Brechtken: Madagascar for the Jews. Anti-Semitic Idea and Political Practice 1885-1945 . 2nd Edition. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1998, ISBN 978-3-486-56384-9 , p. 59 .
  10. ↑ Bollmus, p. 293, footnote 93
  11. ^ A b Joachim Lilla: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004
personal data
SURNAME Schirmer, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), Reichsamtsleiter in the Rosenberg office, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1948
Place of death Celle