Franz Brinkschulte

Franz Brinkschulte (born October 26, 1897 in Eslohe , † September 12, 1970 in Hagen ) was a German politician of the NSDAP . He was the district leader of the Bergisch-Land district .

Life

Franz Brinkschulte first attended elementary school , then the Catholic Rectorate School in Hagen and in 1915 passed the upper secondary school at the Attendorn grammar school . From 1917 to 1918 he served in France during World War I and was awarded the Iron Cross II. Class and the Wound Badge in black .

On June 1, 1931, he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 559.336). In May 1932 he became the local group leader of Burscheid . In 1933 he joined the SA . On March 4, 1935, he became the full-time district manager of the NSV in the Bergisch Land district. On May 21, 1937 he was also Kreisleiter and officially appointed by Adolf Hitler on February 20, 1938 . In addition, he was deputy district leader of Wuppertal from 1940 to 1941 and district leader in the Neuss-Grevenbroich district from 1942 to 1943 . From autumn 1944 he became the district leader of the newly established Rhein-Wupper district .

He was awarded the Golden Party Badge of the NSDAP , the War Merit Cross I and II Class and the service award of the NSDAP in silver .

After the Second World War he was interned for three years in the Recklinghausen camp and in the Staumühle camp near Paderborn. In the denazification process , he was classified as a minor. Because of his involvement in a pogrom against Jews , the Wuppertal public prosecutor's office began investigating him from 1947. This investigation ended in 1949.

From 1949 he worked as an agricultural assistant and as a fruit and poultry dealer.

literature

• Peter Klefisch: The district leaders of the NSDAP in the districts of Cologne-Aachen, Düsseldorf and Essen . Ed .: North Rhine-Westphalian Main State Archive. Düsseldorf 2000, ISBN 3-9805419-2-4 , p. 95-96 .