Helmut Mehringer

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Helmut Mehringer (* December 7, 1912 , † March 1944 ) was a senior official in the Reich Security Main Office in the National Socialist German Reich .

Life

After graduating from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1932 , Helmut Mehringer studied law , history and military science at the University of Munich . He joined the NSDAP ( membership number 736.440) and after completing his studies became a research assistant in the NSDAP's Defense Policy Office. After this rapid career in the party, with the support of the Security Service, he was appointed head of Office Group II A 1 "Press" in the Reich Security Main Office. From 1941 he took over sub-department VII A 2 (reporting, translation service, viewing and exploitation of press material) in Office VII, after having attended the colonial training course (Africa) at the SIPO driving school in Berlin-Charlottenburg in January and February 1941.

Helmut Mehringer was completely devoted to the ideas of National Socialism . This is particularly evident in his 1938 publication The NSDAP as a political elite organization . In this publication he advocates the idea that the NSDAP is an elite organization that has built up a fixed leadership hierarchy in order to act as a political elite organization.

Mehringer was also actively involved in the SS , in which he was promoted to Sturmbannführer on November 9, 1941 (SS no. 314.754).

In March 1944, Helmut Mehringer was killed on the Eastern Front . According to other sources, he died in an air raid on Berlin . He was buried in the forest cemetery in Munich.

Works

  • The army without a banner , Dresden: Franz Müller, 1943
  • France's public opinion , Berlin: Junker & Dünnhaupt, 1940 (= writings of the German Institute for Foreign Policy Research, No. 75).
  • The NSDAP as a political selection organization , Munich: Deutscher Volksverlag, 1938

literature

  • Michael Wild: Generation of the Unconditional. Leadership Corps of the Reich Security Main Office , Hamburg 2002, p. 368.
  • Karl Dietrich Bracher : The National Socialist Seizure of Power: Studies on the Establishment of the Totalitarian System of Rule in Germany 1933/34 , Cologne 1960, p. 217
  • Book trade history , 1994, p. 71

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual report of the Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich 1931/32
  2. ↑ Numery członków SS
  3. ↑ Federal Archives, BDC, Personnel File Helmut Mehringer, BArch DH, ZR 542, A 12 (based on Michael Wild: Generation des Unbedingten. Leadership Corps of the Reich Security Main Office , Hamburg 2002)
  4. ^ Yearbook of the Karl May Society , 1991, p. 106
personal data
SURNAME Mehringer, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German office group leader in the Reich Security Main Office
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1912
DATE OF DEATH March 1944