Emil Klein (politician)

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Emil Klein

Emil Klein (born December 3, 1905 in Oldenburg , † February 22, 2010 in Munich ) was a German politician of the NSDAP and from 1936 a member of the Reichstag .

Life

After attending primary schools in Innsbruck , Meran and Munich, Klein completed a commercial apprenticeship from 1920 to 1923 and at the same time attended the municipal higher commercial school in Munich. He worked as a bank clerk until 1925, after which he was an authorized signatory, and from 1929 co-owner of the revision law firm group Eugen Klein & Sohn.

Klein was a National Socialist from the very beginning. As a teenager, he joined the NSDAP and its youth group on October 4, 1920, the year it was founded. For the party he worked as a propaganda leader and speaker. On September 28, 1922, he joined the Sturmabteilung ; until November 1923 he belonged to the 1st company of the SA regiment "Munich". On October 14 and 15, 1922, Klein took part in the “March on Coburg” at the German Day and also took part in the Hitler-Ludendorff putsch on November 8 and 9, 1923 . During the subsequent ban on the NSDAP, he was treasurer of the substitute organization Großdeutsche Volksgemeinschaft in 1924 and 1925 .

After the re-admission of the NSDAP, Klein rejoined the party on September 24, 1925 ( membership number 47.014). He belonged to the Hitler Youth (HJ) from 1927, and a year later he led the party's youth organization in Munich and southern Bavaria. From 1934 he organized the highland camps, large tent camps taking place in the Bavarian Oberland . In 1935 he rose to the position of HJ-Obergebietsführer and was regionally responsible for the highlands, Swabia, Franconia and the Palatinate. From 1934 to 1945 Klein was editor of the youth magazine "Der Aufbruch". Because of his many offices, he was considered the highest Bavarian Hitler Youth leader. Since 1936 he was also a member of the Reichstag , which was insignificant during the Nazi era.

As on November 9, 1938, the November pogroms were triggered Klein organized the participation of the HJ. Among other things, he and some HJ activists broke into around twenty apartment buildings, extorted money from the Jewish owners and forced their consent to notarize their house with the HJ the next day; in some cases he ordered violent reprisals. According to the historian Michael Buddrus , he was involved in the murder of Judicial Councilor Emil Krämer , which was declared a suicide . Because of this unauthorized enrichment of the Hitler Youth, Klein had to answer before a party court, but remained unpunished.

From December 1937, Klein was adjutant and representative in the political staff of Gauleiter and Minister of Education, Adolf Wagner . From 1943 he headed the political staff in the Bavarian Ministry of Culture , a political ministerial office that controlled the other officials and ensured Nazification. From 1944 he was entrusted with the management of the affairs of the Ministry of Culture; Paul Giesler was formally Minister of Culture at this time . Between 1939 and 1942 Klein took part in the 98 Mountain Infantry Regiment in World War II in Yugoslavia and the USSR, and in 1942 he was discharged from the Wehrmacht as a lieutenant in the reserve . From January 1945 Klein was the liaison officer of the Bavarian Gauleiter Paul Giesler to the Wehrmacht. Klein was awarded the golden party badge , the Coburg Badge of Honor , the Blood Order No. 1054, the golden HJ badge of honor with oak leaf border and the NSDAP badge of merit in silver, grade 2, by his party.

After the liberation , Klein was interned in several camps under automatic arrest until May 7, 1948. In the course of denazification , a ruling chamber classified him on June 27, 1948 in the category of “main offenders”. Also because of his participation in the November pogrom, Klein was sentenced to three years in a labor camp and restricted in his choice of profession. In the following years the restrictions were eased; in October 1953 the restrictions on residence were lifted. Klein then worked as an authorized signatory in the furniture trade in Munich, where he was under observation by the police and the Bavarian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution . Emil Klein died on February 22, 2010 at the age of 104 in Munich.

literature

  • 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 , p. 313 f .
  • Irene Struif: "Youth Leader " Emil Klein - from party member of the NSDAP to head of the Ministry of Culture , in Marita Krauss: Right careers in Munich. From the Weimar period to the post-war years , Volk Verlag Munich, 2010, ISBN 978-3-937200-53-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ DVD "From the beginning to the end", original sound Emil Klein, Zeitreisen Verlag, Bochum 2008.
  2. ↑ Tessa Sauerwein: Hitler Youth (HJ), 1926-1945. In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria
  3. ↑ Armin Nolzen: The Nazi Party and its Violence Against the Jews, 1933-1939: Violence as a Historiographical Concept (PDF; 198 kB), p. 21.
  4. ↑ a b Heiner Emde: Prologue to the Holocaust , in: Focus No. 46 (1998).
  5. ^ Winfried Müller: School policy in Bavaria in the area of ​​tension between the cultural bureaucracy and the occupying power 1945-1949 , Munich 1995, p. 11.
  6. ↑ Joachim Lilla: Klein, Emil . In: ders .: Minister of State, senior administrative officials and (NS) officials in Bavaria from 1918 to 1945 (as of October 11, 2012).

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personal data
SURNAME Little, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 2010
Place of death Munich