Harro from Zeppelin

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Harro Freiherr von Zeppelin (born April 3, 1904 in Basel , † April 10, 1989 in Nuremberg ) was a German farmer, ministerial official and manager.

Life

As a child, v. Zeppelin with his family to Breslau in 1910 . After graduating from high school, he began to study agricultural sciences at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University . In 1923 he became active in the Corps Marcomannia Breslau . He switched to the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität , where he also joined the Corps Saxonia Bonn . He returned to Breslau and passed the diploma examination there in March 1927 . Until 1929 he worked on estates in Silesia and Pomerania . In 1930 he was employed by the German Agricultural Council as a consultant for trade and customs policy. Since April 1, 1931, a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (membership number 515.715), he became an agricultural consultant for the Berlin district in 1932 . From 1 April 1933, he served as Agricultural Council in the Reich Ministry for Food and Agriculture only Adjutant and Private Secretary of the Reich Farm Leader and Reich Minister diet Walther Darré . He was accepted into the Allgemeine SS (membership number 56.179) in mid-1933 and discharged at the end of 1934. At the same time he resigned from his post. From mid-1935 he was unemployed for a year and a half. From 1936 he was a research assistant at the German Potash Association .

On June 8, 1940 , he was drafted into the army (Wehrmacht) and initially served with a reserve rifle battalion. Throughout the Second World War he served in the Air Force , first in Rennes , then at the Eastern Front ( Bromberg ) and most recently at an anti-aircraft guns - battery in Berlin. After the Battle of Berlin , he escaped to Bavaria on foot with some comrades. His family, which was bombed out in Berlin in 1943, found refuge there. He was interned there from 1945 to 1948 . In January 1948 he witnessed the indictment against Darré at the Nuremberg Trials . In 1950 he got a job at Quelle GmbH as the first purchaser for textiles. His services to rebuilding the company earned him the power of attorney . He then became the purchasing director of Schwab Versand in Hanau . Retired in 1969, he lived in Nuremberg again. Shortly after his 85th birthday, he succumbed to Parkinson's disease and bronchial carcinoma . He left his wife Edith geb. Haunhorst , two daughters and two sons.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Klaus Bender: Harro Louis von Zeppelin . Corps newspaper of Marcomannia Breslau (1989), pp. 1572–1573.
  2. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 96/306; 141/522; 146/851.
  3. ↑ a b Zeppelin's interrogation on January 10, 1948 (IFZ)
personal data
SURNAME Zeppelin, Harro of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zeppelin, Harro Louis Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German farmer, ministerial official and manager
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1989
Place of death Nuremberg