Hans Goebbels

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Johann Friedrich Goebbels (born January 25, 1895 in Rheydt ; † August 13, 1947 in Katzenelnbogen ) was a German manager and leading member of the SA .

Origin and childhood

Goebbels was the second eldest son of Friedrich Goebbels named Fritz (1867–1929) and Maria Katharina geb. Odenhausen (1869-1953). His brother, who was two years younger than him, was the Reich Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels . With him and his siblings Konrad (1893-1949), Elisabeth (1901-1915) and Maria Katharina (1910-1949; later married to the screenwriter and film director Max W. Kimmich ) he grew up in a Catholic home.

School and education

He attended secondary school and then trained as an insurance salesman at a Gladbach fire insurance company. He then specialized in reinsurance issues in Bern and switched to an insurance company in Cologne in 1914.

Soldier in World War I and prisoner of war

In May 1915 Goebbels was drafted as a soldier in the First World War and captured by French troops in June 1916 . He remained in French captivity until January 1920. Since then he has suffered from severe kidney disease. His brother Joseph later wrote: He brought "hatred and thoughts of war."

Career

From 1929 Goebbels was a member of the NSDAP and from October 1933 General Director and Operational Manager of the Provincial Fire and Life Insurance Institutions of the Rhine Province . He was also a state commissioner at the State Insurance Company of the Rhine Province .

Together with the Gauleiter of the NSDAP in Pomerania, Franz Schwede-Coburg , he campaigned for the nationalization of the German insurance industry.

Goebbels had been SA Oberführer since November 9, 1942 .

Shortly before the end of the war, Hans Goebbels commissioned a sister superior in the Holsterhausen Lung Sanatorium in Essen to destroy his brother's estate. In 1956 there was a legal dispute over the estate between the niece of the sister superior, who had appropriated the estate, and the publisher François Genoud . The case ended before the Federal Court of Justice , where it led to a fundamental decision on surrender claims in the event of a bona fide purchase .

death

He died on August 13, 1947 French internment camp in Katzenelnbogen in the French occupation zone at a blood poisoning .

literature

  • Manfred Müller: In the shadow of "Grandgoschiers" - General Director Hans Goebbels (brother of the Reich Propaganda Minister) , Aschau im Chiemgau 1994. ISBN 3-9803875-0-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Luck's review of Manfred Müller's book Im Schatten "Grandgoschiers" - General Director Hans Goebbels, brother of the Reich Propaganda Minister, in: Annalen des Historisches Verein für den Niederrhein, Issue 200, December 1997, p. 336 Abstract
  2. ↑ Manfred Müller: In the shadow of "Grandgoschiers" - General Director Hans Goebbels (brother of the Reich Propaganda Minister), Aschau im Chiemgau 1994, ISBN 3-9803875-0-X , reading sample, PDF file, pp. 10-13 [1]
  3. ↑ Peter Longerich: Joseph Goebbels. Biography. Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-88680-887-8 , p. 35.
  4. ↑ Biography on the Spartacus Educational website
  5. ↑ Provinzial, 175 years of security in the Rhineland ( memento of the original dated August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. PDF file, p. 31  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.provinzial.com
  6. ↑ Gerald D. Feldman : The alliance and the German insurance industry, 1933-1945, CH Beck, 2001, ISBN 3-406-48255-4 , p. 385 [2]
  7. ^ Peter Koch : History of the Insurance Industry in Germany, Verlag der Versicherungswirtschaft, 2012, ISBN 978-3-89952-371-3 , p. 282 [3]
  8. ↑ Manfred Müller: In the shadow of "Grandgoschiers" - General Director Hans Goebbels (brother of the Reich Propaganda Minister), Aschau im Chiemgau 1994, ISBN 3-9803875-0-X , reading sample, PDF file, p. 7 [4]
  9. ↑ Gerald D. Feldman : The alliance and the German insurance industry, 1933-1945, CH Beck, 2001, ISBN 3-406-48255-4 , p. 559 [5]
  10. ^ Picture by Hans Goebbels at historiskbildbyra.imagedesk.se
  11. ↑ The Ghosts of Yesterday , The Time of March 8, 1956.
  12. ^ Auction of Goebbels' writings Judas, my old comrade in arms , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from September 26, 2009.
  13. ↑ North Rhine-Westphalia: The Ghosts of Yesterday , Die Zeit , March 8, 1956
personal data
SURNAME Goebbels, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goebbels, Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager and SA-Oberführer
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheydt
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1947
Place of death Katzenelnbogen