Helmut Reinke

Helmut Reinke

Helmut Reinke (born March 23, 1897 in Pyrehne, Landsberg district (Warthe) , † March 26, 1969 in Goslar ) was a German politician (NSDAP).

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After attending primary school , Reinke completed an apprenticeship as a blacksmith in Genshagen. From 1916 to 1917 he took part in the First World War.

After the war Reinke was a member of the Lettow-Vorbeck Freikorps . From 1919 to 1922 he worked for the regulatory police in Hamburg.

In September 1923 Reinke joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). After the end of the ban on the NSDAP, he rejoined the party (membership number 1,242). In this he initially took on official duties as a district leader in the Hamburg Gau and as an agricultural Gaufach advisor (Gaufach advisor of the agricultural policy apparatus) in the same Gau. Later he also became a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA) and the Schutzstaffel (SS). From 1928 to 1933 Reinke was a member of the Hamburg parliament .

In the Reichstag election of July 1932 , Reinke entered the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic for the first time . He was a member of parliament for four months, until November of the same year, as a representative of constituency 34 (Hamburg). After leaving parliament in the November 1932 election , Reinke was able to return to the Reichstag on the occasion of the March 1933 election, to which he now belonged without interruption until the end of Nazi rule in May 1945 as a representative of his old constituency. One of the important parliamentary events in which he was involved during his time as a member of parliament was the vote on the Enabling Act, which was finally passed with Reinke's vote .

On July 1, 1933, Reinke was appointed city councilor in Hamburg. In the same year he took over the post of Head of Department 1 in the Reichsnährstand , which he was to hold until 1935. He then acted for a year, until 1936, as Reich Commissioner and special representative of the Reichsbauernführer for agricultural workers' questions. In 1936 Reinke became head of office in the Reich Office for Agricultural Policy . After he had already worked as a lecturer at the farmers' college in Goslar , Reinke began to give lectures at the University of Göttingen in 1936 . In addition, Reinke was a member of the Reichsbauernrat for a time. In addition, with the rank of Sturmbannführer of the SS, he took over duties in the staff of the Race and Settlement Main Office of the SS (membership no. In November 1944 he came again to the Race and Settlement Main Office.

The awards Reinke received include the Reichsführer SS's sword of honor , the golden party badge and the skull ring of the SS .

Fonts

• The German farm worker , Berlin 1935.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Year and place of birth according to the manual of the Greater German Reichstag from 1938; Year and place of death according to Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : BIORAB database.
2. ↑ For SA membership see BIORAB database, for SS membership see Reichstag Handbook.

literature

• Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).

Web links

• Literature by and about Helmut Reinke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Helmut Reinke in the database of members of the Reichstag