Fritz Reinhardt (SS member)

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Fritz Reinhardt as a witness at the Nuremberg trials.

Dr. Friedrich Rudolph ( Fritz ) Reinhardt (born September 27, 1898 in Kassel , † September 30, 1965 in Stade ) was a German Nazi agricultural functionary, SS functionary and witness in the Nuremberg trials.

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After attending school, Reinhardt took part in the First World War as a war volunteer from 1916 to 1918 , in which he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class.

After the war Reinhardt studied agriculture at the University of Halle / Salle . He completed his studies in July 1923 as a qualified farmer. After passing the state examination, Reinhardt became the test ring manager in Trossin, Saxony, and a civil servant (clerk for test systems and rural economic advice in the arable farming department) of the Chamber of Agriculture of the Province of Saxony in Halle (Saale).

In January 1929 Reinhardt joined the NSDAP ( membership number 109.707) and on September 15, 1935 the SS (SS number 166.846), in which he was promoted to Sturmbannführer .

From 1929 to 1934 Reinhardt worked in the agricultural advisory service of the agricultural department of IG Farben .

In 1932 Reinhardt was promoted to Dr. rer. nat. PhD.

From 1934 Reinhardt worked in the Ministry of Agriculture as an advisor to State Secretary Herbert Backe . As a member of the staff at the Race and Settlement Main Office, he was promoted to SS-Obersturmführer on November 9, 1936 and to SS-Hauptsturmführer on September 11, 1938.

From 1935 to 1937, Reinhardt was transferred to Schleswig-Holstein as the main department head of the state farmers' union. Then he was personal assistant to the Reichsobmann in the Reichsnährstand , Gustav Behrens .

In May 1938 Reinhardt worked in the Race and Settlement Main Office (RuSHA) of the SS, in October 1939 he came to the head of the agricultural staff at the head of the administration of Reich Minister Hans Frank in Posen.

The Reichslandwirtschaftsrat (RLR) Reinhardt was appointed Reichsnährstandsrat at the end of 1941 or in January 1942.

At the beginning of the Second World War , Reinhardt was called up as a special leader in the army and assigned to the quartermaster general. After the German occupation of France in the summer of 1940, he was appointed as Deputy Head of the Military Administration and Head of the Department of Food and Agriculture at the French Military Commander, which he led until the end of the occupation in autumn 1944. During this time he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the War Merit Cross with Swords in November 1943 , because "he was responsible for the agricultural production and the supply of food to the French people and the German occupation army and thus made a decisive contribution to the war."

At the end of the war, Reinhardt was taken prisoner by the Allies. As a result, he was interrogated as a witness at the Nuremberg trials . He was later denazified in the Kornwestheim internment camp .

Promotions

  • September 15, 1935: SS-Untersturmführer (appointment)
  • November 9, 1936: SS-Obersturmführer
  • November 11, 1939: SS-Hauptsturmführer
  • November 9, 1943: SS-Sturmbannführer
  • 1944: SS standard leader
  • January 30, 1945: SS-Obersturmbannführer

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth register of the registry office Kassel No. 1884/1898.
  2. ↑ Harten, Hans-Christian, ideological training of the SS and the police in National Socialism: compilation of personal data, PeDoc 2017, 531 S., p. 365/366, https://www.pedocs.de/volltexte/2018/15155/ pdf / Harten_2017_World_view_training_of_SS_and_police.pdf
  3. ↑ Harten, Hans-Christian, "Philosophical training of the SS and the police under National Socialism: Compilation of personal data", PeDocs 2017, 531 S., P. 365, https://www.pedocs.de/volltexte/2018/15155/ pdf / Harten_2017_World_view_training_of_SS_and_police.pdf
  4. ^ "Transports in the administrative office of the Reichsbauernführer", in: Gartenbauwirtschaft, Wirtschaftszeitung des deutschen Gartenbaues, 59th year, No. 3, January 22, 1942, p. 2, http: //gartentexte-digital.ub.tu-berlin. de / archive / Horticulture / Vol. 59 / No._03.pdf
  5. ↑ Klaus Patzwall: Die Ritterkreuzträger des Kriegsverdienstkreuz, 1942–1945: a documentation in words and pictures , 1984, p. 88.
  6. ↑ List of witnesses at the Nuremberg trials (PDF file; 182 kB)
  7. ↑ Holdings EL 903/3: Judgment Chamber of Interned Camps: procedural files of Camp 75, Kornwestheim, Ludendorff barracks at the Baden-Württemberg State Archives.
personal data
SURNAME Reinhardt, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reinhardt, Friedrich Rudolph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS functionary
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1965
Place of death Stade