Erich Schmidt (Nazi functionary)

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Erich Schmidt (born July 31, 1900 in Schwerin , † 1981 ) was a German National Socialist .

Life

Schmidt attended elementary school from 1907 to 1915 and then completed commercial training at the commercial school. From June 1918, Schmidt briefly took part in the First World War. After his discharge from the army, Schmidt worked as an office worker for the Schwerin city administration from February 1919, and at the end of June 1920 he started his own business in the auction sector. From the beginning of November 1920 to May 1923 Schmidt was employed by the protective police in Hamburg . Schmidt was dismissed from the police force and charged with a case of negligent homicide, but the case was later dropped.

The Nazi Party he joined in October 1931 ( membership number at 710,245). From January 1934, Schmidt worked for the party as a "Gaupressewart" and worked for the party organ Hamburger Tageblatt . Afterwards Schmidt was initially press officer and in early April 1935 head of the Hamburg regional office of the Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (RMVP). In early 1939, at the instigation of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels , Schmidt was transferred to the RMVP in Berlin. There, Schmidt was supposed to restructure the Reich Chamber of Culture as general manager.

During the Second World War , Schmidt succeeded Maximilian du Prel in July 1940 as the main department head of the main office for “Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda” in the German-occupied General Government (GG). However, Schmidt was unable to assert himself in this position in the GG because he made enemies in his department and abused alcohol. In April 1941, Schmidt was finally replaced by his deputy Wilhelm Ohlenbusch as head of the office. From mid-April 1941 to the end of December 1941 Schmidt worked for the Reich Commissioner for the Occupied Norwegian Territories in the field of Nazi propaganda . Schmidt ended his work at the Reich Chamber of Culture at the end of April 1942 and then lived again in Hamburg. At the beginning of June 1942 he joined the SS (membership number 422.943 V).

literature

  • Lars Jockheck: Propaganda in the Generalgouvernement - The Nazi occupation press for Germans and Poles 1939-1945 , individual publications by the German Historical Institute in Warsaw, Volume 15, fiber Verlag, Osnabrück 2006, ISBN 3-938400-08-0 , p. 76f. ( pdf )
  • Werner Präg / Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (eds.): The service diary of the German Governor General in Poland 1939–1945 . Publications of the Institute for Contemporary History , Sources and Representations on Contemporary History Volume 20, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-421-01700-X .
  • Willi A. Boelcke (Ed.): War Propaganda 1939–1941. Secret ministerial conferences in the Reich Propaganda Ministry. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1966, p. 69

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus-Peter Friedrich (edit.): The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933-1945 (source collection) Volume 4: Poland - September 1939-July 1941 , Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-58525- 4 , p. 317, doc. 131, note 7
  2. ↑ a b c Werner Präg / Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (Ed.): The service diary of the German Governor General in Poland 1939–1948 , Stuttgart 1975, p. 952.
  3. ↑ a b Lars Jockheck: Propaganda in the Generalgouvernement - The Nazi Occupation Press for Germans and Poles 1939-1945 , Osnabrück 2006, p. 76.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German National Socialist
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH 1981