Helmut Möckel (politician)

Helmut Möckel

Helmut Möckel (born June 21, 1909 in Vielau ; † February 15, 1945 in Darmstadt ) was a German staff leader of the Hitler Youth (HJ), deputy to the Reich Youth Leader and member of the Reichstag .

biography

After completing his school career, Möckel studied education and economics at the Technical University of Dresden and then political science at the University of Vienna . Möckel, who completed his courses in 1933 and 1934, was a co-founder of the National Socialist Teachers' Association (NSLB). He joined the NSDAP in 1930 and was a member of the SS from 1930 to 1933 . Möckel switched from the SS to the Hitler Youth in 1933, where he was employed full-time in 1933 in the area management of the Hitler Youth in Saxony in the departments “Training” and “Propaganda”. In 1935 he became head of the area management in Saxony. On July 16, 1937, he became head of the Office for Procuring the Reich Youth Leadership, which he remained until the end of the war. In October he was also head of the authority committee of the Reich Youth Leadership and on November 9, 1937, he was HJ chief ban leader. In April 1938 he was unsuccessfully proposed to move into the German Reichstag, which was relatively insignificant at the time of National Socialism . In June 1938 he returned to Saxony to the HJ area leadership, where he became HJ area leader in August 1938. From the end of 1939 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and trained as a fighter pilot. In August 1940 he was deputy head of the Hitler Youth as a deputy to the Reich Youth Leader of the NSDAP and the German Reich .

In November 1942 Möckel became a member of the National Socialist Reichstag, of which he was a member of the constituency of Breslau until his death in February 1945 . On February 11, 1945 he was awarded the Knight's Cross for War Merit Cross with Swords. Möckel died together with his driver and another Hitler Youth leader in a car accident.

literature

• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
• 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 .