Fritz Reinhardt (State Secretary)

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Fritz Reinhardt, here SA Ogruf around 1938

Fritz Reinhardt (* 3. April 1895 in Ilmenau , † 17th June 1969 in Regensburg ) was a German state secretary in the Finance Ministry in the era of National Socialism .

Career

At the beginning of the First World War , Reinhardt stayed in Riga and was interned in Siberia as an enemy foreigner . After his return in early 1919, he was director of the commercial school and the academy for economics and tax in Ilmenau. In 1922 he founded the German Tax Syndicate there and was approved as a tax agent by the newly established Reich Finance Administration. From 1923 Reinhardt was the editor of the Rundschau für Wirtschaft und Steuer (1929 renamed Economic Observer ).

In the same year he joined the NSDAP and was then dismissed from school in Ilmenau. In 1924 he founded the Deutsche Fern-Handelsschule in Herrsching am Ammersee , which in 1929 became the official speaker school of the NSDAP. From October 1930 to March 1931 he took over the editing of the Ingolstadt NS-Kampfblatt Der Donaubote . In addition, he published speaker material for the party and organized the training of propaganda speakers in the speaker school and in distance learning; According to the party, around 6,000 NSDAP members completed these training courses.

Since 1927 district leader of the NSDAP Upper Bavaria South, Reinhardt was appointed Gauleiter of Upper Bavaria the following year . He held this party office until 1930. After the Reichstag election of September 14, 1930 , the NSDAP succeeded in becoming the second largest parliamentary group with 107 seats with 6.4 million votes after 810,000 in 1928. Reinhardt took on the leading role in financial matters for the NSDAP and entered the Reichstag as a member of the parliament . There he represented his faction in the budget and the Reich debt committee. He was known as a finance and tax expert who was obsessed with details, was didactically talented and was inclined to Keynesianism .

State Secretary

On April 1, 1933, after Hitler's personal intervention, he became State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Finance under Johann Ludwig Graf Schwerin von Krosigk . He gained popularity through the Reinhardt program named after him to eliminate unemployment by means of tax measures and family support programs . The Tax Adjustment Act of October 16, 1934, in which he u. a. It was stipulated that the new tax laws were to be interpreted according to the National Socialist worldview .

From then on, Reinhardt made tax decisions almost independently; he was responsible for the Reich Finance Schools he set up from 1935 , as well as the customs schools for training tax and customs officials and the customs border guard established in 1937 . The company tax audits carried out by these newly trained staff were considered particularly strict and thorough. Reinhardt was the editor of the Deutsche Steuerzeitung and the author of various specialist and training books for tax officials and tax advisors.

In addition, he was formally SA group leader from 1933 . In 1937 he was promoted to SA-Obergruppenführer . In parallel to his work in the Reich Ministry of Finance, he was head of the tax / financial policy and job creation department from 1934 as the main service manager in the staff of the Führer’s deputy .

Shortly before the end of the war he claimed in a lecture in January 1945 that the finances of the German Reich were in order, and he took the view that “after the end of the war, the major reconstruction measures and social projects could be financed without difficulty and that real debt repayment would also be possible is possible to the extent economically necessary. [...] Inflation is completely out of the question in National Socialist Germany. "Apparently, even the official propaganda had doubts about this optimistic assessment, as a newspaper reported on the lecture under the heading" State Secretary Reinhardt on current financial problems ".

With the Aktion Reinhardt Fritz Reinhardt is not connected, this is the first name Reinhard Heydrich back.

post war period

From 1945 to 1949 Fritz Reinhardt was in automatic arrest by the Allies . He appeared as a witness at the Nuremberg trials. During the denazification in 1949 he was classified as a particularly active National Socialist in Group 1 (main culprit) and sentenced to four years in a labor camp. Reinhardt appealed against this . The classification was confirmed again in what is known as a judicial chamber procedure , but his detention in the camp was reduced to three years and his previous internment counted towards the sentence, with which he was immediately released.

With the exception of the specialist books Buchführungpraxis Fritz Reinhardt. Commercial apprenticeship through self-teaching and distance learning (1920), Household affairs in the Reich, State and Municipality (1922) and Limited Liability Companies (1927), all of Reinhardt's writings were placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone .

Reinhardt later worked as a tax consultant and published other tax books, but otherwise did not appear publicly. He lived in Bad Wörishofen and Riedenburg . His son, Klaus Reinhardt , born in 1941, became a general of the German armed forces .

Books (selection)

  • The rule of the stock exchange, Fr. Eher Nachf. , Munich 1927.
  • Bookkeeping, balance sheet and tax: teaching and reference work, 1936.
  • What is happening to our money? Finance, purchasing power, currency. Willmy publisher, Nuremberg 1942.
  • Value Added Tax Service: Commentary on the Value Added Tax Act, 1967.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/gnd116420537.html
  2. ^ Karl Walker: Overcoming capitalism while maintaining market competition. Rudolf Zitzmann Verlag 1954, p. 8.
  3. ↑ State Secretary Reinhardt on current financial problems. In:  Znaimer Tagblatt and Niederösterreichischer Grenzbote , January 17, 1945, p. 1 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / ztb
  4. ^ Günther Morsch, Bertrand Perz: New studies on National Socialist mass killings by poison gas. Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-940938-99-2 , p. Roman 17.
  5. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-r.html
personal data
SURNAME Reinhardt, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR, State Secretary
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Ilmenau
DATE OF DEATH 17th June 1969
Place of death regensburg