Emil Steinhoff

Emil Adolf Hermann Steinhoff (born May 3, 1883 in Wenigensömmern ; † January 25, 1953 in Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe ) was a German SA functionary.

Life

Steinhoff was a son of Hermann Steinhoff and Olga Bieling. After graduating from high school , he became an officer and attended the military academy . Steinhoff took part in the First World War with the infantry regiment “von Stülpnagel” (5th Brandenburgisches) No. 48 and retired from military service as a major at the end of the war .

Around 1930 Steinhoff joined the NSDAP's SA . In this he was from 1932 to 1933 Oberführer of the SA sub-group Hessen-Nassau -Nord.

From April 1, 1933, Steinhoff was appointed as the successor to August Schneidhuber , who was transferred to Munich, with the management of the SA in West Germany (Group Westmark) in the rank of SA group leader . Within the organizational structure of the SA, Steinhoff (still with the rank of group leader) was in the summer of 1933 as leader of SA-Obergruppe V (based in Frankfurt am Main ) one of only seven leaders of SA-Obergruppen as the largest regional branches of the SA at the time. The upper group led by Steinhoff comprised the SA groups Thuringia, Westmark with Koblenz-Trier and Pfalz-Saar, Hesse and Southwest, as well as the Free State of Hesse. He also became the NSDAP's agent for the Rhine Province .

In 1936 Steinhoff ran unsuccessfully in constituency 21 for the Reichstag .

literature

August Ludwig Degener: Who is it? The German who's who. 1935. p. 1545.
Cuno Horkenbach (Ed.): Das Deutsche Reich from 1918 to today, born 1931–1933, publishing house for press, economy and politics, Berlin 1931–1935.
Erich Stockhorst : 5000 heads: who was what in the 3rd Reich. VMA-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1967.

Web links

Photo by Steinhoff in the German Digital Library
"Gauleiter Weinrich, Oberführer Steinhoff and SA-Untergruppenführer in Steinberg, summer 1932". Historical image documents from Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

↑ Death register of the registry office Kassel No. 197/1953.
↑ Eike Hennig (Ed.): Hessen under the swastika. Insel, Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1983, pp. 76, 83, 85, 88-89.
↑ In the summer of 1933 the SA was divided into the main groups I (Litzmann), II ( Max Luyken ), III ( Edmund Heines ), IV ( Manfred von Killinger ), V (Steinhoff), VI ( Viktor Lutze ) and VII ( August Schneidhuber ).
^ Rademacher: Handbuch der NSDAP-Gaue, p. 385.
^ Lilla: 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. 2004, p. 802.

personal data
SURNAME	Steinhoff, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Steinhoff, Emil Adolf Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German SA functionary
DATE OF BIRTH	May 3, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	Little summer
DATE OF DEATH	January 25, 1953
Place of death	Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe

[1] Death register of the registry office Kassel No. 197/1953.

[2] Eike Hennig (Ed.): Hessen under the swastika. Insel, Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1983, pp. 76, 83, 85, 88-89.

[3] In the summer of 1933 the SA was divided into the main groups I (Litzmann), II ( Max Luyken ), III ( Edmund Heines ), IV ( Manfred von Killinger ), V (Steinhoff), VI ( Viktor Lutze ) and VII ( August Schneidhuber ).

[4] Rademacher: Handbuch der NSDAP-Gaue, p. 385.

[5] Lilla: 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. 2004, p. 802.