Hans Schick (SS member)

Hans Schick (born April 22, 1889 in Eitorf ; † after 1964) was a lay German priest, historian and SS-Sturmbannführer .

Life

Hans Schick (also: Johannes Schick) attended elementary school in Holland. In 1903 or 1907 he entered the Kamillian monastery in Vaals near Aachen and received training in philosophy and theology in Roermond . He was ordained a priest on March 18, 1913 . From 1918 to 1922 he worked in the Camillian monastery in Essen-Heidhausen. As a member of the Camillian order, he was responsible for youth education and social work. During his religious activities in Essen-Heidhausen, he worked for a time in the alliance of the cross , in which he took over the editing of the monthly Johannisfeuer in 1919 .

From 1922 to 1925 he was superior of the Camillian monastery in Neuss . In 1925 he resigned from the order. This was followed by an activity as a secular priest of the Archdiocese of Cologne . Between 1926 and 1931 he worked as a pastor and religion teacher in Düsseldorf and in 1931/32 as a hospital chaplain in Bonn. In 1928 he passed his Abitur at the age of 38. On December 19, 1931, he received his doctorate as a historian at the University of Bonn under Max Braubach .

He resigned from the priesthood on October 20, 1932. In February 1932 he passed the state examination for the higher teaching post. He became a trainee lawyer at the Beethoven grammar school in Bonn , worked as a private teacher and became a teacher at the middle school in Hoya on June 1, 1933 .

On April 1, 1933, he became a member of the NSDAP (membership number 1,675,565) and from 1933 was a trainer in an SS storm in Hoya (membership number 229,564). From April 23, 1935 he was employed in the main security service office of the SS (SD-HA) and from October 15, 1936 in the SD upper section south . On November 1, 1938 he became SS-Untersturmführer .

From April 1934, he was recruited by Reinhard Heydrich , a full-time employee of the security service of the Reichsführer SS . He was "extraordinaire department head II 1", later "head of section VII B5" (individual scientific studies on domestic problems) and of RSHA II C 1 (cultural research) . In June 1938, as part of the fight against opponents, Schick began to evaluate the material from a former lodge house at Eisenacher Strasse 12 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf as SS-Untersturmführer with assistants . In the following months, Schick's team in Berlin examined the registrar property of Catholic institutions in order to collect incriminating material for Heydrich's main SD office. On June 25, 1938, the Austrian editor-in-chief of the Vienna daily Reichspost was interrogated by Schick in the Dachau concentration camp . On June 30, 1938, Schick interrogated the General Director of the Austrian National Library, Josef Bick , whom he had transferred from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp to the Gestapo prison. In his final report, he asked Heydrich to retire or fire Bick.

In the spring of 1939, as SS-Obersturmführer , Schick supported the NSDAP Gauleiter Friedrich Rainer in Salzburg with officials from the Secret State Police in order to close down Benedictine monasteries in his district.

On April 20, 1941 he became SS-Sturmbannführer , his last SS rank.

In the religious-political discourse, Schick went beyond the ideas of Martin Bormann and Heydrich on the question of religious instruction, demanded the abolition of religious instruction and also demanded that the subjects ethics and biblical studies no longer be allowed.

From 1940 to 1941 he was Franz Six's assistant at the Faculty of Foreign Studies in Berlin. In 1942 he completed his habilitation at the University of Strasbourg under Günther Franz on The Elderly Rosicrucianism , A Contribution to the History of Freemasonry . In 1943 he became a lecturer in political intellectual history at the Faculty of Foreign Studies. His habilitation thesis is to be assigned to National Socialist research on opponents, in this case directed against the Freemasons , and was part of the research book series Sources and Representations on the Freemason Question , written by employees of the Reich Security Main Office between 1939 and 1943 , based on evaluations of the lodge material confiscated by the Nazis. Schick's habilitation thesis, published as a book, was placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet Zone in 1946 .

After the end of the Second World War he was interned from 1945 to 1948. He then worked as a speaker at the Caritas Association of the Diocese of Cologne . In 1964 he was based in Eitorf .

Fonts

• The Reichstag in Regensburg in the era of the Basel Peace 1792–1795, Dillingen a. D .: Schwäb. Publishing house, 1931.
• Older Rosicrucianism. A contribution to the genesis of Freemasonry, Berlin: Nordland-Verlag ., 1942, reprint: Struckum: Verlag für holistic research and culture 1982

literature

• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
• Michael Wildt : Generation of the Unconditional. The leadership corps of the Reich Security Main Office. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-930908-87-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Gideon Botsch: "Political Science" in World War II: the "German Foreign Studies" in action 1940-1945 , Schöningh, Paderborn a. a. 2006, p. 266.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Wolfgang Dierker: Himmler's faith warriors . The SS Security Service and its Religious Policy 1933–1941. Schöningh, Paderborn 2002. p. 558.
3. ^ Franz Henrich: The leagues of the Catholic youth movement: their significance for the liturgical and eucharistic renewal , Kösel, Munich 1968, p. 140, p. 470.
4. ↑ Joachim Lerchenmueller: The historical science in the planning of the security service of the SS, the SD historian Hermann Löffler and his memorandum "Development and tasks of historical science in Germany" , Bonn, Dietz, 2001, p. 32f.
5. ↑ Wolfgang Dierker: Himmler's religious warriors . The SS Security Service and its Religious Policy 1933–1941. Schöningh, Paderborn 2002. pp. 430f.
6. ↑ Wolfgang Dierker: Himmler's religious warriors . The SS Security Service and its Religious Policy 1933–1941. Schöningh, Paderborn 2002. p. 523.
7. ↑ Wolfgang Dierker: Himmler's religious warriors . The SS Security Service and its Religious Policy 1933–1941. Schöningh, Paderborn 2002. p. 528.
8. ↑ Joachim Lerchenmüller: The University of Strasbourg: SD Science Policy and Academic Careers Before and After 1945 , in: Karen Bayer, Frank Sparing, Wolfgang Woelk (ed.) Universities and colleges during National Socialism and in the early post-war period , Steiner 2004. P. 53– 81, here p. 55, p. 61.
9. ↑ Ralf Klausnitzer: Poetry and Conspiracy: Sense of Relationship and Sign Economy of Conspiracy Scenarios in Journalism, Literature and Science 1750-1850. Vol. 13. Walter de Gruyter, 2007. p. 24.
10. ^ List of literature to be discarded .
11. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 533.