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Hanns Streit (born July 3, 1896 in Posen , † June 10, 1983 in Munich ) was a German NS student functionary and SS standard leader .

Life

After leaving school, Streit took part in World War I as a volunteer from 1914 to 1918 , most recently as a reserve lieutenant. After the end of the war he was a French prisoner of war until 1920. He then completed a degree in political science at the University of Berlin . From 1925 he headed the Berlin Student Union. At the University of Berlin he was awarded a doctorate in 1931 with the dissertation "Das Deutsche Studentenwerk (Economic Aid of the German Student Union) 1921-1931". phil. PhD . From 1931 to 1933 he worked as an economic advisor for the German Association of Cities .

Streit was a member of the NSDAP from 1931 ( membership number 826.154). Until 1938 he was co-editor of the series “Nachwuchs und Auslese”. From 1933 to 1944 he headed the Reichsstudentenwerk . From 1938 he was head of the Reichsstudentenführung.

After the German occupation of Poland at the beginning of the Second World War , Streit was sent to Posen by Reich Education Minister Bernhard Rust in October 1939 to secure the inventory of the closed university and to set up a German university there. As the Eastern Commissioner of the NS Student Union and the NS Lecturer Union, he became a “favorite” of the local Reich Governor and Gauleiter Arthur Greiser . Greiser appointed him his university and science officer. In December 1939 he became the student leader in Wartheland . From 1940 to 1945 he was (initially provisional) curator of the University of Posen , where he played a key role in building it up.

At the University of Poznan, he became the managing director of the Central Institute for Cancer Research , where, among other things, research on biological warfare should take place. He was appointed government director in 1941. From 1941 he was the leader of the Gaudozenten Wartheland. With the SS (SS-No. 335.651) he rose to the position of SS-Standartenführer at the end of January 1942 and did spy services for the SD . From April 1942 he was the Reichsstudentenführer's representative for the East and from October 1943 headed the People's Political Office within the Reichsstudentenführung. From 1944 until the end of the war in 1945 he was a member of the leadership of the Reichsdozentenführung.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon for National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 170.
  2. ^ A b c d e Rolf-Ulrich Kunze: The Study Foundation of the German People from 1925 to the present day. On the history of the promotion of gifted children in Germany , Berlin 2001, p. 152.
  3. a b Excerpt from the seniority list of the SS
  4. ^ A b Helmut Wilhelm Schaller: The Imperial University of Posen. 1941–1945 , Frankfurt / M. 2010, p. 126
  5. Jan M. Piskorski: The Imperial University of Posen (1941–1945). In: Hartmut Lehmann , Otto Gerhard Oexle (Hrsg.): National Socialism in the Cultural Studies. Volume 1 (subjects, milieus, careers), Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-525-35198-4 , p. 250.
  6. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 475.