Herbert Gutjahr

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Herbert Guthjahr (born October 25, 1911 in Rixdorf ; † March 12, 1944 ) was a National Socialist student leader.

Life

Herbert Guthjahr, the nephew of the deputy Gauleiter of Berlin, joined the NSDAP and the SA in 1931 . He had been studying law in Berlin since the summer semester of 1930 , passed his legal traineeship in April 1935 and later became Carl Schmitt's assistant . In 1932 and 1933, he led the Berlin student body as head of District X (Berlin / Brandenburg) of the German student body. Guthjahr played a leading role in the book burning on Berlin's Opernplatz in 1933 . Before the book burning began, he gave a speech to the students and the crowd.

From 1933 Guthjahr, together with Kurt Jewan, played a decisive role in the reorganization of the Berlin University in line with National Socialist ideology and held various positions in the student body. With the founding of the new, National Socialist-led student body and its sub-groups in the individual faculties, the German student body and the NSDStB under the leadership of Guthjahr and Jewan took decisive political influence. Guthjahr, for example, played a key role in whether scientists could continue their academic careers under National Socialism . Through his intervention Guthjahr u. a. the habilitation of Werner Ziegenfuß .

Guthjahr later joined the SS . During his time as Carl Schmitt's assistant , he worked as an informant to Reinhard Höhn for the security service . Guthjahr had been in the Wehrmacht as a soldier since 1939 , most recently as a captain in an infantry division . He died of a war wound in Ukraine on March 12, 1944 .

literature

  • Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy, Heidelberg 2004, p. 67 f.
  • Christoph Jahr / Rebecca Schaarschmidt: The Berlin University during the Nazi era . Volume 1: Structures and People. Franz Steiner Publishing House. 2005. ISBN 3-515086-57-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herbert Guthjahr is referred to in newspaper reports in 1933 as Cand. jur. designated.
  2. ↑ a b Anna-Maria von Lösch: The naked spirit: the law faculty of the Berlin University in upheaval in 1933 . Mohr Siebeck Verlag, 1999 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Hans-Joachim Strätz: The student “Action against the un-German spirit” in spring 1933 in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 16th year 1968, issue 4 / October, p. 44. (PDF; 5.8 MB)
  4. ↑ Werner Treß: Berlin, in Julius H. Schoeps / Werner Treß (ed.): Places of the book burnings in Germany 1933, Hildesheim 2008, p. 119.
  5. ^ Christian Tilitzki: The German University Philosophy in the Weimar Republic and in the Third Reich . Akademie Verlag 2002, p. 647 f.
personal data
SURNAME Gutjahr, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, National Socialist student leader
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Rixdorf
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1944