Hans Gerd Techow

Hans Gerd Techow (born January 30, 1905 in Berlin ; † July 29, 1992 in Mühltal ) was a German publicist , lawyer and publisher . He was involved in the planning of the attack on Walther Rathenau , in which his brother Ernst Werner Techow drove the car.

Life

Techow headed the Berlin branch of the German National Youth Association, founded in 1919, and joined the Freikorps as a high school student in 1919 . He became a member of the Ehrhardt Brigade and took part in the Kapp Putsch , where he was employed as an orderly for messenger services in the Reich Chancellery . Here he is said to have met the later Rathenau assassin Erwin Kern . He then became a member of the German National Guard and Defense Association and the right-wing extremist terrorist organization Organization Consul (OC), a successor organization to the Ehrhardt Brigade. According to his own statements, he was "Adjutant of the Prussian state consultant for pre-military youth education".

Through his older brother, Techow was included in the inner circle of conspirators and the plan to assassinate Walther Rathenau. After someone confessed, Techow was arrested on June 27, 1922, three days after the assassination attempt. The State Court for the Protection of the Republic sentenced him to four years and one month in prison for aiding and abetting murder .

After his release in July 1926, Techow was appointed editor of the German Front in Altona in 1927 . In March 1928 he passed the school leaving examination and then took up law studies in Berlin, which he completed in December 1933 with the first state examination. Immediately after his release from prison he had joined Hermann Ehrhardt's Bund Wiking and, even before its dissolution, the Freischar Schill, which served as a cover organization . From February 1928 to November 1930 he acted as chancellor of the Freischar and also became Federal Chancellor of the Elder Organization of the Freischar, the Confederation of Confederates . In connection with the bomb attacks by the Schleswig-Holstein rural people's movement , Techow and the founder of the Freischar, Werner Laß , were arrested in 1928 and the Freischar were banned from schools in various cities. As the second editor behind Karl Otto Paetel , he worked on the national journal Die Kommenden while Laß and Ernst Jünger were editing . After differences with Lass, from whose supposedly pro-communist course he distanced himself in March 1933, Techow left the group in autumn 1932.

At this point Techow had already become active in the German Academic Guild as a member of the Berlin Guild Teja . At first he only worked in the press office, but in 1933 he successively became leader of the Bündische Guildenschaft and chancellor of the young guilds. In the early 1930s he sympathized with the circle around Ernst Niekisch , but after 1933 converted the guild movement into the SA and SS .

From 1934 to 1935 Techow completed his legal clerkship at the Berlin Higher Regional Court . Since June 1932 he was also a member of the Hitler Youth . He worked in the NSDStB , in the youth department of the Reich inspector of the NSDAP Heinrich Haake and in the Reich youth leadership . In 1935 he became editor-in-chief and deputy managing director of the Reich Association of the Address and Advertising Book Industry . In March 1936 he applied for membership in the NSDAP , which was approved retrospectively to May 1, 1937 ( membership number 6.937.656). After leaving the HJ in 1943, he joined the SA . From 1928 to 1942 he was also a member of the NSRB and from 1939 to 1945 of the NSV .

After the Second World War, Techow lived as a publisher in Darmstadt .

Fonts

• (Ed.): The circle of ideas of the German guild body. Way and confession of German boys. Self-published by the German Guild, Berlin 1934.
• Who? What? Where? E. Müller, Berlin 1939.
• ABC of the address business. E. Müller, Berlin 1940.
• Guild and guild members. Lecture given on January 11, 1965 on the occasion of the 40th Foundation Festival of the Gilde Widukind in Münster. , [Sl] 1965.

As well as numerous articles in Der Jungdeutsche , Deutsche Zeitung , The advance , the coming , the attack .

literature

• Martin Sabrow: The Rathenaumord. Reconstruction of a conspiracy against the Republic of Weimar. Oldenbourg, Munich 1994. (= series of the quarterly books for contemporary history 69).
• Stefan Breuer, Ina Schmidt: The coming ones. A magazine of the Bündische Jugend (1926–1933). Wochenschau Verlag, Schwalbach / Ts. 2010.