Heinrich Glasmeier

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Heinrich Glasmeier (born March 5, 1892 in Dorsten , † presumably 1945 ) was a German broadcast director and functionary of the Nazi broadcasting system.

Life

Heinrich Glasmeier was the son of the merchant Bernhard Glasmeier. From 1911 he studied German, history, philosophy and allegedly archival science in Münster and Munich (the subject was not taught in Münster or Munich at the time), and joined the Catholic student associations Cimbria Münster and Saxonia Munich in the Cartel Association of Catholic German Student Associations KV a.

From 1913 Glasmeier worked as an archivist in Münster for the family of the Counts von Merveldt . In the First World War he was an officer and after the end of the war he was involved in the suppression of the Ruhr uprising. In 1920 he was in charge of the archives of the Dukes of Croÿ in Dülmen and of the entire archives of the Counts of Landsberg in Velen from 1922 to 1933 . From 1923 he was also archive director of the United Westphalian Aristocratic Archives and, from 1927, he was part-time head of the archives advisory office for the province of Westphalia . His doctoral thesis, “The Family of Merveldt zu Merfeld: A Contribution to the Family and Class History of the Muenster Knighthood”, submitted in Münster in 1920, was assessed by his doctoral supervisor Aloys Meister as “carried out very carefully and with good judgment” and ultimately rated “cum laude” . In May 1923 Glasmeier was elected a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia .

Glasmeier was characterized by opportunism and naive piety and, as a staunch National Socialist, believed blindly in Adolf Hitler . From an early age he probably had connections to the NSDAP environment through his connections to the Westphalian nobility . In 1932 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 891.960) and became managing director of the NSDAP-Gaus Westfalen-Nord and "Gaukulturwart". Glasmeier was also a member of the SS since the beginning of 1933 (membership number 53,406). As Gauge Managing Director, he was directly involved in the organization of the NSDAP election campaign for the politically insignificant elections in the state of Lippe in early 1933 , which the NSDAP leadership called for a “fateful election ” for reasons of imperial politics . Here he learned u. a. Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels know personally. This joint election campaign laid the foundation for his subsequent party career.

In the DC circuit of the student associations and thus also of the KV glass Meier took the post as assessor of the leadership council of the KV, because he was the only member of the association with a higher party office in the Nazi Party. Membership in the NSDAP should not be possible due to a decision by the KV.

At the instigation of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels , Glasmeier was appointed director of West German Broadcasting in Cologne in 1933 as the successor to the released and arrested Ernst Hardt . The Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft (RRG) praised Glasmeier's appointment as artistic director, because as an archivist he had shown his “National Socialist basic view of blood and soil ”.

In 1937 he became Reichsintendant of the All-German Broadcasting and General Director of the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft .

In the summer of 1942 he moved to Linz, to the St. Florian Monastery of the Augustinian Canons, which was dissolved by the Nazis , in order to set up a production facility for “Greater German and European broadcasting”. This idea found support from Hitler. Thanks to generous donations, Glasmeier was able to renovate the monastery and in memory of Anton Bruckner , who was the organist at St. Florian and is also buried there, he founded a Bruckner orchestra with a choir that had more than 100 members. The concerts of this orchestra were conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler , Herbert von Karajan , Karl Böhm and Eugen Jochum . In November 1943 Glasmeier was the representative of Reich Propaganda Minister Goebbels in occupied France.

From January 30, 1943, Glasmeier was the holder of the NSDAP's golden party badge .

On May 4, 1945 Glasmeier fled from the advancing US troops and has been missing since then. Deviating from this representation, Ernst Klee gives January 31, 1945 as the date of death.

The discount glass Meiers is located in the archives of the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe in Münster.

Fonts

  • The family of Merveldt zu Merfeld: A contribution to the family and class history of the Münster knighthood, Münster 1931 (published in the Westphalian Adelsblatt, which he himself edited)

literature

  • Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographical Lexicon of KV. 5th part (= Revocatio historiae. Volume 6). SH-Verlag, Schernfeld 1998, ISBN 3-89498-055-9 , pp. 55-56.
  • Norbert Reimann: Heinrich Glasmeier. In: Westphalian pictures of life . - Munster. - (Publications of the Historical Commission of the Provincial Institute for Westfälische Landes- und Volkskunde; 17, A). - 17 (2005), pp. 154-184.
  • Willi A. Boelcke (Ed.): War Propaganda 1939–1941. Secret ministerial conferences in the Reich Propaganda Ministry. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1966.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Norbert Reimann: Heinrich Glasmeier . In: Westphalian pictures of life . tape 17 , 2005, pp. 154 .
  2. ↑ a b Willi A. Boelcke (Ed.): War Propaganda 1939–1941. Secret Ministerial Conferences in the Reich Propaganda Ministry , 1966, p. 90
  3. ^ Norbert Reimann: Heinrich Glasmeier . In: Westphalian pictures of life . tape 17 , 2005, pp. 157 .
  4. ^ Norbert Reimann: Heinrich Glasmeier . In: Westphalian pictures of life . tape 17 , 2005, pp. 166 .
  5. ↑ a b List of seniority of the NSDAP Schutzstaffel. As of December 1, 1936, p. 64 f., No. 1405. (JPG; 1.05 MB) In: http://www.dws-xip.pl/reich/biografie/1936/1936.html . Retrieved November 3, 2019 .
  6. ^ Norbert Reimann: Heinrich Glasmeier . In: Westphalian pictures of life . tape 17 , 2005, pp. 167 .
  7. ↑ Communications of the RRG of March 30, 1933, quoted from Ansgar Diller: Broadcasting policy in the Third Reich . In: Hans Bausch (Ed.): Rundfunk in Deutschland , Volume 2, p. 114, dtv 3184, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-423-03184-0 .
  8. ^ A b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 185.
  9. ↑ Klaus D. Patzwall : The Golden Party Badge and its Honorary Awards 1934-1944, Studies of the History of Awards Volume 4 , Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt 2004, ISBN 3-931533-50-6 , p. 69
personal data
SURNAME Glasmeier, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German broadcast director and functionary of Nazi broadcasting
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorsten
DATE OF DEATH around 1945