Helmuth Friedrichs

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Helmuth Friedrichs

Helmuth Friedrichs (born September 22, 1899 in Otterndorf ; † probably February 1945 ) was SS leader, commander-in-chief in the party chancellery of the NSDAP and a member of the Reichstag at the time of National Socialism .

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After attending primary and secondary school in Otterndorf, Friedrichs graduated from secondary school in Osnabrück . After graduating from high school , he took part in the First World War as a soldier from 1916 , where he was deployed on the Eastern and Western Fronts. From October 1918 to the end of 1919 he was a British prisoner of war. Then he was a member of a volunteer corps and belonged to the Reichswehr. At the beginning of 1920 he worked together with the later SA leader Karl Dincklage as a campaign assistant for the DNVP in the Prussian state elections. From 1921 to 1925 he worked as a miner in Westphalia. During this time, from April 1923 to March 1925, he attended the mountain school in Bochum, where he passed the advanced examination. He then studied mining at the mining academy in Clausthal-Zellerfeld . He left the academy without a degree.

The Nazi Party , he joined the 1929th He joined the SA at the turn of 1929/1930 and the SS in 1936. In 1944 he reached the rank of group leader in the SS. From the spring of 1930 he was Gau managing director in the Gau Kurhessen . From 1934 he worked for the NSDAP Reichsleitung in Munich and in the following year was a clerk at the staff of the Deputy Leader . Eventually he became commander in chief in the Munich party chancellery . Until the end of the war he remained “ Bormann's most important support ” in dealing with “party affairs”.

In 1933 he was a member of the provincial parliament of Hessen-Nassau . Friedrichs had been a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for constituency 19 (Hessen-Nassau) from November 1933 until the beginning of 1945. Friedrichs was appointed to Berlin in autumn 1944 and joined the Volkssturm there. He had been missing since February 1945 and was declared dead on August 13, 1951 by the Munich District Court with the date December 31, 1945.

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  1. ^ Helmuth Friedrichs in the database of members of the Reichstag
  2. a b Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 167.
  3. a b Joachim Lilla: Extras in Uniform: The Members of the Reichstag 1933 - 1945, Düsseldorf 2004, pp. 162–163.
  4. ^ Waldemar Besson: On the history of the National Socialist command officer. In: Institute for Contemporary History Munich (Ed.): Quarterly Issues for Contemporary History . 9th year, issue 1, 1961, p. 99 ( PDF )
  5. Erich Stockhorst: 5000 heads - who was what in the Third Reich. Kiel 2000, p. 146
  6. ^ Peter Longerich: Hitler's deputy . Munich 1992, ISBN 3-598-11081-2 , p. 13.