Eberhard von und zu Steinfurth

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Eberhard Jürgen Gottfried Ludwig Freiherr Löw von und zu Steinfurth , different spelling: Steinfurt (born July 24, 1909 in Hadersleben , † December 28, 1993 in Bad Nauheim ) was a German police officer and SS leader.

Life

Steinfurt was born as the son of the last Prussian district administrator in the Hadersleben district in what was then North Schleswig, Germany, Hugo Philipp Löw von und zu Steinfurth, Freiherr Löw von und zu Steinfurth (1880-1969), and Eva von Oertzen (1887-1969). After Northern Schleswig returned to Denmark in 1920, the family moved to Germany.

In 1928 Steinfurt passed the Abitur in Wiesbaden , which was followed by an agricultural apprenticeship at Gut Geemelmark near Eckernförde . From the winter semester of 1929/30 he studied law in Munich, where he joined both the NSDAP and the SA on December 1, 1930 . As a representative of the National Socialist German Student Union (NSDStB) Steinfurt was elected to the AStA of the University of Munich in 1931 , where he became head of the office for physical exercise. In the summer semester of 1932 he moved to the University of Kiel , where he passed the first state examination in law in early 1934 .

The active SA troop leader Steinfurt had been working for the SD as an undercover agent since the end of 1933 . In 1934, after approval by the SA leadership, he transferred from the SA to the SS. From 1935 Steinfurt belonged to the security service of the Reichsführer SS (SD). Here Steinfurt initially worked as a consultant for the SD subsection Schleswig-Holstein in Kiel and was appointed Untersturmführer on April 20, 1935 . On April 20, 1936, he was promoted to Obersturmführer and took over the position of head of Department II of the SD subsection Schleswig-Holstein. Steinfurt mainly worked on cultural issues. Steinfurt had been in touch with Frits Clausen , the leader of the Danish National Socialists, since 1937 . Steinfurt was promoted to Hauptsturmführer on April 20, 1938 and to Sturmbannführer on January 30, 1939 .

On April 13, 1940, Steinfurt was assigned to Amt VI of the Reich Security Main Office in Berlin and tasked with setting up the "Occupied Territories" department. Steinfurt should then work on the subject area Denmark within the department.

During the Second World War , Steinfurt took over as Obersturmbannführer (since April 20, 1943) the management of the SD Section III B 5 "Occupied Areas" in the Reich Security Main Office, which, together with the Gestapo Section IV D 4, is responsible for coordinating the security police and intelligence measures of the SD and security police in the German-occupied areas of Europe.

After the end of the war , Steinfurt was transferred to Denmark as a witness imprisoned by the Allies and interned there. Steinfurt was eventually deported to Germany without charges being brought against him. He declined an offer from the Gehlen organization to work for them. In Bonn, Steinfurt was later press spokesman for the federal traffic watch and also editor-in-chief of the magazine Faktor Mensch im Verkehr . Steinfurt spent his retirement from the end of the 1970s on his family's farm in the Rheingau, where he devoted himself to professional rose growing. He was a tree nursery owner and co-founder of the Rosen-Union eG, a cooperative rose gardening company in Bad Nauheim - Steinfurth , founded in 1961 , and its first honorary chairman until 1967.

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Fonts (selection)

  • Eberhard von Löw zu Steinfurt (!): On the question of the knowledge of the Nordic nature and Nordic religiosity. November 25, 1937. In: homepages.uni-tuebingen.de/gerd.simon ( PDF; 33 kB ).
  • Eberhard Frhr. Löw von und zu Steinfurth: The road traffic order in the public consciousness (= human factor in traffic. Issue 6/7). Carried out as a research assignment of the Dt. Road Safety Council e. V. Tetzlaff, Frankfurt a. M. 1971, ISBN 3-87814-013-4 .
  • Eberhard Frhr. Löw von und zu Steinfurth: For and against seat belts (= human factor in traffic. Issue 15/16). Edited by the research community Der Mensch im Verkehr e. V. Cologne. Editing: Eberhard Frhr. Löw. Tetzlaff, Frankfurt a. M. 1973, ISBN 3-87814-025-8 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See note 1 (in the text edition by Gerd Simon ) on Eberhard von Löw zu Steinfurt (!): On the question of the knowledge of the Nordic nature and Nordic religiosity. 1937 (see section Writings ): "File note Löw zu Steinfurth 25.11.37, BA ZM 1582 A 4 Bl. 42-46 - Steinfurth (typewritten) is otherwise written in Steinfurt. Löw was last active in the Reich Security Main Office III B (Volkstum) under Hans Ehlich . ”- Bath, 2015 (see section Literature ), uses the spelling“ Steinfurt ”throughout with reference to contemporary sources in the Third Reich and the SD personnel files . The publications after 1945 bear the (own) spelling "Steinfurth".
  2. ↑ Genealogy of Eberhard Jürgen Gottfried Ludwig Löw von und zu Steinfurth. In: gw.geneanet.org, accessed July 29, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Matthias Bath: The SD in Denmark 1940-1945. 2015, p. 31.
  4. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses. 1918. Volume 68, Justus Perthes, Gotha, p. 477 ( Scan  - Internet Archive ).
  5. ^ A b c Matthias Bath: The SD in Denmark 1940-1945. 2015, p. 32.
  6. ↑ a b prescription in Bath, 2015, p. 32: "Occupied Germanic countries".
  7. ^ A b Matthias Bath: The SD in Denmark 1940-1945. 2015, p. 33.
  8. ↑ The human factor in traffic. Monographs on traffic psychology, traffic education and related areas. Edited by the research association “The human being in traffic” e. V. (Cologne). Rot-Gelb-Grün, Braunschweig, Heft 1, 1969–, ZDB -ID 596044-7 . - Prescription from Bath, 2015, p. 33: “People and Transport”.
  9. ^ Rosen-Union - The company profile ( Memento from August 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: rosen-union.de, accessed on July 29, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Steinfurth, Eberhard from and to
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steinfurth, Eberhard Jürgen Gottfried Ludwig Freiherr von und zu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP)
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Hadersleben
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1993
Place of death Bad Nauheim