Eleonore von Wangenheim

Eleonore von Wangenheim was a German nobleman and Nazi politician.

Life

Further life data of Eleonore von Wangenheim such as birthday, date of death, place of birth etc. are not known.

Eleonore von Wangenheim is not identical to the daughter of the same name of Gustav and Inge von Wangenheim , which can be seen from the life data.

Political activity

Eleonore von Wangenheim was a member of the NSDAP and since 1932 active in the Nazi women's group.

After the Second World War , Eleonore von Wangenheim was again politically active in the right-wing extremist environment in the Socialist Reich Party (SRP). There she was in a row of the first party congress on July 30, 1950 in Hannover , which is modeled on the Nazi Party rallies was called the Nazi Party as "sufficient conference" by the board - consisting of Fritz Dorls , Wolfgang Falck , Otto Ernst Remer August Finke , Bernhard Gericke , Gerhard Heinze, Helmut Hillebrecht , Gerhard Krüger and Wolf Graf von Westarp - appointed as "consultant for women's and social issues".

Women's Association

Parallel to these activities, Eleonore von Wangenheim tried in August 1950 to set up a “women's association” which was to be open to “all women who feel German” without compulsory membership in the SRP. However, the women's association was organized in such a way that the top leader always had to belong to the party executive committee of the SRP and the country leaders were the speakers for women's and social issues. This meant that women without membership in the SRP were fundamentally excluded from significant influence and the party had vertical access to all organizational levels at all times.

The primary task of the women's association was to transport the ideology of the SRP to sections of the population - and especially women - who had no or only weak ties to the party. This was done with reference to the “German world of thought”, “sense of community” and “firm comradeship”. However, the attempts by the Wangenheims were altogether unsuccessful, since appeals from August and October 1950 received no noticeable response. The last call in March 1951 was therefore no longer directed at “German women” but “comrades of the SRP”. Along with the shift to the focus on comradeship aid went the transformation of the open women's union into a closed, internal party organization called "Kameradschaftshilfe"

In addition to the ideology transfer, the goal of the women's association was to raise money and benefits in kind for the notoriously underfunded party, which is constantly threatened by seizures (Richard Stöss: Socialist Reich Party , page 2322), to support "needy comrades", to sew clothes, Christmas packages and supplies for prisoners of war. The spectrum also included cultural and youth work - the latter through the establishment of a BDM-like "girls' group".

By transforming the open women's association into the closed, internal party organization Kameradschaftshilfe , the danger of a ban, as happened in May 1951 for activist groups of the SRP, was averted - but the range of potential donors was also significantly reduced.

Comradeship assistance

Like the Women's Association, the Kameradschaftshilfe was an exclusively women's organization with the same organizational principle. However, there was a restriction regarding the tasks due to the permanent lack of active people. Von Wangenheim was not able to remedy this even through tours and visits, so that in the end the Comradeship Aid was only dedicated to supporting its own, needy party comrades who were sentenced to prison terms for defamation against public figures, defamation and denigration of the memory of the dead , sedition one ate and incitement to racial hatred, propaganda of unconstitutional or abusive speech against carriers of political violence in prisons. Examples of such support were the help given to the families of the party founder Otto Ernst Remer, who escaped imprisonment by fleeing abroad, and the state chairman in North Rhine-Westphalia, Günter Demolsky, who had been sentenced to ten months' imprisonment without parole for violating the peace . Conveniently, his wife Marliese Demolsky was also the state advisor for women's and social issues and responsible for helping fellowship. Whether Otto Ernst Remer Marliese Demolsky excluded Günter Demolsky without an honorary council meeting due to irregularities in the comradeship assistance in the course of entering prison remains unclear - but is obvious due to the temporal coincidence.

In addition to this task, the second focus was on helping war criminals incarcerated in the Landsberg and Werl correctional facilities , who had been convicted in the Nuremberg trials in 1946 . This help also included a Christmas package campaign at the end of 1951. In mid-1952, when the ban on the SRP was foreseeable, an attempt was made to revive the women's association in order to have a cover organization ready after the ban - this failed.

literature

• Richard Stöss: Socialist Reichspartei In: Party Handbook: The parties of the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1980 4 volumes, special edition, Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1986, ISBN 3531118382 . Volume 4, page 2274ff.
• Otto Büsch: First study: History and shape of the SRP In: Right-wing radicalism around post-war Germany. Studies on the Socialist Reich Party (SRP) Verlag Franz Vahlen, Berlin 1957, Westdeutscher Verlag Cologne and Opladen 1967, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 1967, ISBN 9783663196143
• Peter Furth: Second Study: Ideology and Propaganda of the SRP In: Right-wing radicalism around post-war Germany. Studies on the Socialist Reich Party (SRP) Verlag Franz Vahlen, Berlin 1957, Westdeutscher Verlag Cologne and Opladen 1967, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 1967, ISBN 9783663196143

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia: BVerfG judgment on the ban on right-wing extremist SRP ( memento of the original from October 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 20, 2017. 
2. ↑ Otto Büsch, First Study: History and Shape of the SRP , page 57, 135ff. accessed October 20, 2017
3. ^ Otto Büsch, First Study: History and Shape of the SRP , page 135f. accessed October 20, 2017
4. ↑ Peter Furth: Second Study: Ideology and Propaganda of the SRP , page 281
5. ↑ Otto Büsch: First Study: History and Shape of the SRP , page 138