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Ernst Leichtenstern , also Ernst von Leichtenstern (born April 22, 1895 in Erlangen , † April 2, 1945 in Breslau ), was a German Lord Mayor, Nazi propaganda and film functionary at the time of National Socialism .

biography

Leichtenstern left the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in March 1914 before graduating from high school and took part in the First World War as an officer in the Imperial Navy ; then he worked in a volunteer corps . He worked as an engineer. The Nazi Party , he joined the 1930th He was a local group leader for the party in Gilching . Through his employment as an electrician in the Brown House, he made contacts with Nazi celebrities and rose within the Nazi hierarchy. From 1934 he was head of the Gau propaganda at the Gauleitung Munich-Upper Bavaria. He became a lay judge at the People's Court in 1934 . In the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (RMVP) he headed the film department, promoted to Ministerialrat from January 1938 to August 1939. In 1939/40 he was at the request of Joseph Goebbels as the successor to Alfred Greven for a time as head of production at UFA . However, since Leichtenstern had no experience with film productions, he was released from this post after a short time.

From April 7, 1940, he was Lord Mayor of Görlitz . From Görlitz he officially moved to Breslau in July 1944 , where he was Lord Mayor of this city until his death in April 1945. Leichtenstern died in combat operations during the Battle of Breslau .

literature

Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

Individual evidence

^ Annual report from the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich 1913/14.
↑ Hans-Christoph Blumenberg : Life goes on. The last film of the Third Reich , Rowohlt-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-87134-062-6 , p. 47
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 364
↑ ^a ^b Helmut Heiber (editor), Institute for Contemporary History (ed.): Files of the party chancellery of the NSDAP, part 1 Regesten , Oldenbourg, Munich 1983, p. 73
↑ ^a ^b At UFA this is how it was done ... Cinema - The great dream business . In: Der Spiegel , edition 3/1951 of January 17, 1951, p. 21
↑ Ingo Schiweck: "(...) because we prefer to sit in the cinema than in sackcloth and ashes." : the German feature film in the occupied Netherlands 1940-1945 . Waxmann, Münster / New York 2002, p. 19.
↑ Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , p. 295.

personal data
SURNAME	Light star, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Light star, Ernst von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Lord Mayor, Nazi propaganda and film functionary at the time of National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH	April 22, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH	gain
DATE OF DEATH	April 2, 1945
Place of death	Wroclaw

[1] Annual report from the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich 1913/14.

[2] Hans-Christoph Blumenberg : Life goes on. The last film of the Third Reich , Rowohlt-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-87134-062-6 , p. 47

[Klee364-3] Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 364

[Heiber73-4] Helmut Heiber (editor), Institute for Contemporary History (ed.): Files of the party chancellery of the NSDAP, part 1 Regesten , Oldenbourg, Munich 1983, p. 73

[Spiegel3/1951-5] At UFA this is how it was done ... Cinema - The great dream business . In: Der Spiegel , edition 3/1951 of January 17, 1951, p. 21

[6] Ingo Schiweck: "(...) because we prefer to sit in the cinema than in sackcloth and ashes." : the German feature film in the occupied Netherlands 1940-1945 . Waxmann, Münster / New York 2002, p. 19.

[7] Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , p. 295.