Georg Usadel

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Georg Usadel

Georg Friedrich Hennig Usadel (born March 14, 1900 in Gumbinnen , East Prussia ; † August 4 or August 27, 1941 near Uschukowa, Russia ) was a German high school teacher and politician (NSDAP).

Life

Usadel, the younger brother of Willy Usadel , was born as the son of a farmer and manager of the estate (estate manager). He attended elementary school in Trakehnen in the Stallupönen district in the province of East Prussia , then a private school in the same city. Then Usadel studied at the secondary schools in Stallupönen and Barmen . At the First World War Usadel participated as a musketeer part in the Infantry Regiment 30th Afterwards he belonged to the 33rd Infantry Regiment, a free corps . From 1919 to 1923 he studied German, history and theology at the Albertus University in Königsberg . Like his brother, he became a member of the Königsberg fraternity of Teutonia . In 1923 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . In 1924 he passed the 1st state examination for higher teaching qualifications, in 1927 the 2nd state examination. In 1929 he became a teacher in Insterburg .

In 1929 Usadel joined the NSDAP . In it he devoted himself above all to youth policy. He participated in the expansion and organization of the Hitler Youth , of whose leaders he was one of the leaders. At the end of the 1920s, he was Gauführer HJ in East Prussia, then Obergebietsführer and leader of the East Prussian National Socialist Schools' Association . In the völkisch movement he had already distinguished himself in 1924/1925 as the editor of the Tannenberg magazine . In the local elections of 1929 he became an unpaid city councilor in the Insterburg magistrate, and later also a member of the Gumbinnen district council.

In the general election of September 1930 Usadel was a candidate of the Nazi Party for the constituency 1 (East Prussia) in the Reichstag elected. From the elections from July 1932 to November 1933 Usadel belonged to the Reichstag on the Reich election proposal. From November 1933 until his death in August 1941, Usadel sat again for constituency 1 (East Prussia) in the Reichstag . He was a member of the German parliament for a total of almost eleven years from September 1930 to August 1941. Less than two months after Usadel's death, Arthur Axmann took over his Reichstag mandate in October 1941.

In the SA Usadel was Oberführer of Brigade 27 and in 1931 Standartenführer of the SA Group Ostland, later SA Oberführer in the staff of the SA Group Berlin-Brandenburg . After 1933 Usadel was head of the Reichsfuhrer School in Potsdam . In the year of the " seizure of power ", he was also appointed to the Reich Ministry of the Interior . Furthermore, the Prussian Ministry of Culture consulted him on reforming the curriculum for secondary schools. Around the same time he became head of the school department of the Reich Youth Leadership and liaison officer of the Reich Youth Leader to the Reich Ministry of the Interior. In 1934 Usadel became head of the department for physical education of youth in the Reich Ministry for Science, Education and National Education with the rank of Ministerialrat . He acted as a regional advisor for race and culture and was the main editor for youth publications in the Rosenberg office and a member of the Frontbann . In addition, Usadel also emerged as the author of relatively much-read writings on youth education in the National Socialist sense. For example, Usadel's consideration of breeding and order circulated in 85,000 copies.

Usadel coincided with 41 years as a soldier of the Wehrmacht Army in the German-Soviet war .

Awards

Fonts

  • Development and importance of the National Socialist youth movement , 1934.
  • Iron time. Teutons march , 1935 (together with Kurt Pastenaci )
  • The Golden Age of the Teutons , 1935 (together with Kurt Pastenaci)
  • Discipline and order. Foundations of National Socialist Ethics , 1935.
  • Folk history of the Teutons , 1936. (together with Kurt Pastenaci)
  • Freedom and Demand , 1936.
  • Germany's becoming. Survey and National Socialist Assessment , 1937.
  • The young citizen of the Reich , 1937.
  • with Walther Hofstaetter : From a pure source. German poetry from Hölderlin to the present , 1938
  • Contemporary history in words and pictures. From the old to the new Reich , 1939.
  • Knowledge, education, school , 1940.

All of Usadel's writings were placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet zone of occupation after the end of the Second World War .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The large German Reichstag , 1943, p 55, and the magazine "ideology and school," 10, October 1941, p 225
  2. ↑ Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : BIORAB online.
  3. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 637 (entry: Georg Usadel)
  4. ^ A b c Georg Usadel - Officials of National Socialist Reich Ministries . In: Officials of National Socialist Reich Ministries . February 5, 2018 ( ns-reichsministerien.de [accessed March 30, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Fraternity leaves . Volume 45, Issue 5, p. 107.
  6. ↑ Dissertation: The description of persons in the old German epic up to Gottfried von Strasbourg .
  7. ↑ Max Schwarz : MdR, Biographisches Handbuch der Reichstag. , Hannover 1965, p. 779.
  8. ^ Paul Egon Heinrich Lüth: Literature as history. German poetry from 1885 to 1947 , 1947, p. 124.
  9. ^ German administration for popular education in the Soviet occupation zone , list of the literature to be sorted out, Berlin, transcript letter U, pages 423-426, Zentralverlag 1946

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SURNAME Usadel, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Usadel, Georg Friedrich Hennig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high school teacher and politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Gumbinnen , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH August 4, 1941 or August 27, 1941
Place of death near Uschukowa, Russia