Fritz Hilgenstock

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Fritz Hilgenstock , (born September 8, 1898 in Barmen ; † October 30, 1961 in Salzburg ; full name: Friedrich Karl Ernst Hilgenstock ) was a German student functionary in the Weimar Republic and a successful architect during National Socialism .

Life

Hilgenstock was the son of a building contractor. After graduating from secondary school , he studied at the Technical University of Hanover . In 1918 he became a member of the Arminia fraternity in Hanover . He graduated with a degree in engineering.

From 1922 to 1923 he was chairman and from 1924 to 1931 one of the two "elders" of the German Student Union (DSt). He was ousted from his role in the DSt during the advancement phase of the National Socialist German Student Union (NSDStB). As a Hanoverian student leader in 1925 he was the “decisive agitator” of an anti-Semitic student “combat committee” that drove the Jewish philosopher and publicist and Professor Theodor Lessing out of the university.

Hilgenstock was chairman of the university policy committee of the German Burschenschaft (DB). After conflicts between the corporations and the NSDStB, whose national community ideology stood in "sharp contrast" to the "elitist self-image of the corporations" and which overtook the competition, Hilgenstock was an initiator of the University Political Working Group (Hopoag) in 1932 under the leadership of DB, which led the Should secure influence of the corporate associations. Hilgenstock did not question the basic consensus with National Socialism : He regretted the conflict with the NSDStB because "it was ultimately ... a fratricidal struggle" and emphasized the "agreement with the basic ideas of National Socialism". The NSDStB worked “to the detriment of the National Socialist movement”. When a new student body law came into force in April 1933 after the transfer of power to Hitler's government made up of National Socialists and German Nationals, which excluded students with “ non-Aryan ” parents and / or grandparents from the student body, Hilgenstock welcomed this step: “Now the people's citizenship principle ... . implemented, a solution which we warmly welcome and which was previously not possible due to the Weimar Constitution ”.

Hilgenstock, a long member of the German Volkish Freedom Movement , joined after the membership ban imposed by the NSDAP in 1933 . As an architect, he had been a member of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts since 1940 .

From 1934 Hilgenstock worked as an independent architect in Berlin , Wilhelmshaven and Posen . As part of the armaments industry, he was able to participate in extensive state construction projects, for example in the 60 million Reichsmark project for naval management and residential buildings for thousands of naval members and shipyard workers in Wilhelmshaven, on construction sites in Estonia, Hanover, Posen and Bremen der Focke Wulf AG, the tunnel construction (tunneling) in Blankenburg (Harz) , a branch office first of the Buchenwald concentration camp , then of the Mittelbau concentration camp , for which hundreds of mostly Jewish forced laborers were used.

After the end of National Socialism, Hilgenstock continued his professional activity, including building residential buildings for the US Army (1950). He died in a car accident.

Fonts

  • The moral foundations of the Third Reich. The working conference of the German National Freedom Movement on 19. u. January 20, 1929 in Berlin. 1929.
  • Fascist or German form of government? Lecture by Fritz Hilgenstock, given at the conference of the German Volkish Freedom Movement in Berlin from 1. – 2. February 1930. (= Our weapons. Armaments of the German National Freedom Movement , Volume 21) 1930.
  • Honor, freedom, fatherland. Evidence of bravery in the time of German calamity. (= The ABC of the National Book Service. ) 1936.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 334-335.
  • Michael Grüttner : Students in the Third Reich. Munich 1995.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Stitz: The CV 1919–1938. The university policy path of the Cartell Association of Catholic German Student Associations (CV) from the end of World War I to its destruction by National Socialism. Munich 1970, p. 125.
  2. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 334-335, here: p. 334.
  3. ^ Michael Grüttner: Students in the Third Reich. Munich 1995, p. 37; Hans Peter Bleuel, Ernst Klinnert: German students on the way to the Third Reich. Ideologies - Programs - Actions 1918–1935. Gütersloh 1967, p. 225f.
  4. ↑ Heike Ströle-Bühler : Student anti-Semitism in the Weimar Republic. An analysis of the Burschenschaftliche Blätter 18918 to 1933. Frankfurt am Main et al. 1991, p. 139.
  5. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 334-335, here: p. 335.
  6. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , p. 335; Jens-Christian Wagner: Production of Death. The Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp. Göttingen 2001.
personal data
SURNAME Hilgenstock, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hilgenstock, Friedrich Karl Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and functionary of student policy
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1961
Place of death Salzburg