Gebhard Ludwig Himmler

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Joseph Gebhard and Anna Himmler (standing) with their three children Heinrich (left), Ernst (middle) and Gebhard (right) (1906)

Gebhard Ludwig Himmler (* 29. July 1898 in Munich , † 22 June 1982 ) was a German Nazi - functionary , a mechanical engineer and older brother of the realm leader SS Heinrich Himmler .

Early years

Gebhard Ludwig Himmler was the first son of the principal studies director Joseph Gebhard Himmler (born May 17, 1865 in Lindau (Lake Constance) ; † October 29, 1936 in Munich) and of Anna Maria Heyder (born January 16, 1866 in Bregenz ; † September 10th 1941 in Munich). His siblings were Heinrich Himmler (* October 7, 1900 in Munich; † May 23, 1945 in Lüneburg ) and Ernst Hermann Himmler (* December 23, 1905 in Munich; † May 2, 1945).

From 1904 to 1906 he attended the cathedral school on Frauenplatz in Munich. From 1906 to 1908 he attended the Amali School and from 1909 to 1916 the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich . In 1916 he was postponed from being drafted into the Bavarian Army because he graduated from high school . In March 1917 he passed an early oral Abitur .

First World War, Hitler putsch, studies, work and family

In 1917 he completed an officer training course and in May 1917 became a flagjunker of the 16th Bavarian Infantry Regiment in Passau . In the summer of the same year he completed a maneuver in Grafenwoehr , a Fahnenjunker course and then a machine gun course in Lagerlechfeld . On April 9, 1918 he came to the Western Front in Lorraine and was then used in the battle of Château-Thierry 65 km from Paris as a reporter between the battalion and regimental command.

Gebhard Himmler took part in the suppression of the Munich Soviet Republic as a member of the Resident Army . In November 1919, like his brother Heinrich, he joined the Rifle Brigade 21 of the Reichswehr under Franz Ritter von Epp as a temporary volunteer . At the beginning of 1923 Gebhard Himmler joined the Bund Reichskriegsflagge under Ernst Röhm , who took part in the Hitler putsch in November 1923.

From January 15, 1919 to July 1923, he studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich . From July 1923 until the introduction of the Rentenmark he was employed by the Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechsel-Bank for paper money. In 1924 he worked in the design office of the Fritz Neumeyer AG machine factory in Munich-Freimann . From January 1925 he was an assistant teacher at the municipal vocational and trade school for precision mechanics Deroystraße; from April 1925 he was employed there as a teacher and taught technical drawing, physics and instrument science.

He was a member of the AGV Munich , where he met his future brother-in-law Richard Wendler . On September 18, 1926, he married Mathilde Hilde Wendler, whom he had met at a ball organized by the Apollo Munich student association (today: Fraternity Franco-Bavaria Munich ). Her children are Irmgard (born October 21, 1927), Anneliese (born October 16, 1930) and Heide (born March 13, 1940 in Gmund am Tegernsee ).

Time of National Socialism - Nazi functionary

After January 30, 1933, Gebhard Himmler was appointed director of the vocational school in Deroystraße. On November 1, 1935, he became director of the Oskar-von-Miller-Polytechnic, a higher technical college.

In May 1933 Gebhard Himmler joined the NSDAP ( membership number 1.117.822) and the Association for Germanness Abroad . In order to ward off the appearance of an opportunist, he was given the low NSDAP membership number of his wife Hilde on his request. Before January 30, 1933, Gebhard was the leader of the Bavarian vocational school association. This was in in 1933 Nazi Teachers League transferred (NSLB). Gebhard Himmler was appointed deputy and then Gaufachschaftsleiter of the Gau Oberbayern .

From his appointment as director of the vocational school in Deroystraße in Munich, Gebhard Ludwig Himmler devoted himself intensively to numerous honorary posts of the Nazi regime and was largely exempt from teaching. He was trained as an officer and continued to work in the NSLB. From the beginning of 1936 he worked in the main office for technology in the NSDAP and at the NS-Bund Deutscher Technik , which were headed by Fritz Todt and which until 1938 was part of almost all technical and scientific associations, such as B. the Association of German Engineers (VDI), were connected.

The VDI defined the guidelines for awarding the title of engineer. Gebhard Himmler had a formative influence on this corporate representation of interests and exercised her political power in a discriminatory and partisan way.

On August 1, 1939, Gebhard Himmler was called up to the 19th Bavarian Infantry Battalion and was stationed with his company in the Czech Republic on the Polish border .

After the beginning of the Second World War , he took part in the attack on Poland from September 1, 1939 . Gebhard Himmler's Infantry Regiment 19 belonged to the 14th Army . At the end of the fighting on September 16 and 17, 1939, his regiment was west of Lemberg and was relocated to the Lower Rhine at the beginning of October 1939.

On October 18, 1937, Fritz Todt and Abdul Majid Zabuli signed a German-Afghan agreement on construction and land transport. Gebhard Himmler enjoyed the protection of Fritz Todt, which contributed to his transfer to Department E IV of the Reich Ministry for Science, Education and National Education in Berlin in December 1939 . On July 12, 1940 he was promoted from senior studies director to ministerial councilor. In Berlin-Friedenau , the Gebhard and Hilde Himmler family lived on Hähnelstrasse from June 1940. In 1944, Ministerialdirigent Wilhelm Heering (* 1877) was retired in the Reich Ministry for Science, Education and National Education and Gebhard Himmler was his successor. From August 1943 Gebhard Himmler lived with his brother Ernst in Ruhleben in Berlin.

His family lived in the Lindenfycht house in Gmund am Tegernsee with Margarete Himmler until 1946 ; This supervised the renovation work of the private villa prisoners of the subcamp of the Dachau concentration camp . Gebhard Himmler was promoted to SS-Standartenführer (SS-No.214.049) on January 30, 1944 and to SS-Standartenführer of the Reserve of the Waffen-SS on March 30, 1944 and was appointed inspector of the Waffen-SS schools .

post war period

Gebhard Himmler came into British captivity near Kappeln an der Schlei . At the beginning of March 1946 he was interned in the Emil Köster leather factory in Gadeland , after which he was transferred to Fallingbostel in the Lüneburg Heath . In 1948 he was transferred to an internment camp on Ungererstrasse in Munich.

After his dismissal in 1948, he was engaged in the manufacture of capacitors in Hoffmannstrasse in Munich. Karl Hudezeck (1934–1945 director of the Wittelsbacher Gymnasium in Munich ) issued him with a clean bill for the Nazi period. In a court proceedings , it was classified in Category II as contaminated .

In the European-Afghan Cultural Office in Munich, the Ministerialdirigent a. D. and engineer Gebhard Himmler employed as a student advisor and arranged internship positions for Afghan students. He was excluded from civil service and his pension entitlements were denied, which he sued and succeeded in doing in 1959.

Publications

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katrin Himmler, Michael Wildt, The Private Heinrich Himmler: Letters of a Mass Murderer, p. 302 .
  2. ↑ Gebhard Himmler, The father of a mass murderer
  3. ↑ Klaus Mües-Baron: Rise of the Reich SS; (1900 - 1933) V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2011 ( Google books ) p. 29 (Dissertation University of Oldenburg 2010, 561 pages)
  4. ↑ a b List of seniority of the NSDAP Schutzstaffel (SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer - SS-Standartenführer) , Berlin 1944.
  5. ^ Josef Greiner , Sudetenfahrt der deutschen Technik Own train newspaper; No. 1-8; Nov-Dec
  6. ↑ Michael Alisch: Heinrich Himmler. Ways to Hitler; the example of Heinrich Himmler. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2010 ( Google books ) p. 53, ISBN 978-3-631-61219-4 (Master's thesis Universität Hamburg 2008, 171 pages).
  7. ^ Heering, Wilhelm (* 1877): Professor at the Vocational Education Institute in Berlin, active in the Prussian Ministry of Labor, 1933–1934 in the Office for Technology and School, then Reich Secretary of the NSLB for the vocational area, 1934–1945 department head of the REM for the vocational field.
  8. ↑ Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 2: Early camp, Dachau, Emsland camp. CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-52962-3 , p. 12.
  9. ↑ Katrin Himmler , The Himmler Brothers , p. 288.
personal data
SURNAME Himmler, Gebhard Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Nazi functionary, engineer and older brother of Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1982
Place of death Munich