Gerhard Rühle

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Gerhard Rühle

Ger (har) d Rühle (born March 23, 1905 in Winnenden ; † June 5, 1949 in Innsbruck , suicide ) was a German lawyer, author and member of the Reichstag . Rühle was the federal leader of the NS Student Union (NSDStB).

Life

After attending the Reformrealgymnasium, Rühle completed a law degree at the universities of Munich , Halle and Frankfurt am Main . During his studies in 1924 he became a member of the Rhenania Munich fraternity . He went through a two-year legal clerkship and entered the Prussian judicial service, from which he resigned in the summer of 1930 for political reasons.

Rühle joined the NSDAP with membership number 694 and in 1925 became the party's deputy local group leader in Halle . This was followed by his entry into the SS and a job with the Gauleitung in Frankfurt am Main . Here, in 1930, Rühle temporarily took over the office of NSDAP district leader.

In 1931 he joined the Association of National Socialist German Lawyers (membership no. 23). He reached the high point of his Nazi career as early as 1932 when he was appointed federal leader of the Nazi student union in succession to Baldur von Schirach . Rühle held this office until 1933. He also sat from 1932 to 1933 as a member of the Prussian state parliament .

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933, Rühle received a seat in the Reichstag. He worked as a government councilor in the Upper Presidium of the Province of Brandenburg and was the head of the district administration in Kurmark . In 1935 he became district administrator in Calau and in 1939 envoy in the Foreign Office . Here he headed the "Broadcasting Policy Department" in the office of a ministerial director and in January 1944 founded an anti-Jewish campaign abroad with Gustav Adolf Steengracht von Moyland , Franz Alfred Six and Paul Carell to counter the unrest that arose in Europe because of the Shoah . Rühle was a member of the Academy for German Law and received the rank of SS standard leader in 1942 . He received the golden party badge of the NSDAP, the service awards of the NSDAP in gold, silver and bronze; SS service awards, the Reichsführer SS's sword of honor and the SS skull ring .

Rühle was the main author of the series “Das Third Reich” (1933–1939) and “Das Großdeutsche Reich” (1940), a documentation about the preparation and construction of National Socialist Germany and the movement in Austria.

Fonts

  • The Third Empire. Documentary representation of the building of the nation ; With the support of Dt. Reichsarchivs, Berlin: Hummel
    • Part 1: The first year 1933 , 1934 (3 editions).
    • Part 2: The second year 1934 , 1935 (2 editions).
    • Part The fighting years 1918-1933 , 1936.
    • Part 3: The Third Year 1935 . With numerous pictures and documents as well as a subject index, 1936.
    • Part 4: The fourth year 1936 . With numerous pictures and documents as well as a subject index, 1937.
    • Part 5: The fifth year 1937 . With numerous pictures and documents as well as a subject index, 1938.
    • Part 6: The sixth year 1938 . With numerous pictures and documents as well as a subject index, 1939.
  • The Greater German Reich. Documentary representation of the construction of the nation , Berlin: Hummel
    • Part 1: The Austrian fighting years 1918–1938 , 1940 and special volume 1941.
  • Race and Socialism in Law (= German Law Library, Volume 4), Berlin: German Law and Economic Sciences. Publishing company 1936 (with Erich Ristow).

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 138-140.
personal data
SURNAME Rühle, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rühle, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR, MdL, federal leader of the NS student union
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Winnenden
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 1949
Place of death innsbruck