High school of the NSDAP

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The high school of the NSDAP was the project of a National Socialist -oriented elite university, which was subordinate to the chief ideologist of the NSDAP , Alfred Rosenberg . Various institutes that have more or less been realized belonged to this party university. The project to build a central monumental building for this university on the banks of the Chiemsee on the basis of the plans by Hermann Giesler failed. Occasionally this building is also referred to in the literature as "high school".

history

In 1939 the construction of the central library of the high school began, with Alfred Baeumler appointing the philologist Walter Grothe to head this library. On January 29, 1940, Alfred Rosenberg was officially commissioned by Adolf Hitler to build the NSDAP High School as an elite National Socialist university. In the “ Führer Decree ” it says: “The 'High School' should one day become the central point of National Socialist research, teaching and education.” Because of the war, this should be postponed until further notice. However, Hitler ordered that Rosenberg "should continue this preparatory work by building the library."

For this purpose Rosenberg had state libraries, archives and chancelleries of lodges and high church authorities searched for material in the occupied territories of the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France from 1940; At the behest of Adolf Hitler, the Secret State Police were also to contribute to the necessary research . In a “Führer's Decree” of March 1, 1942, Rosenberg received a corresponding power of attorney for the occupied eastern territories, because the “Jews, Freemasons and the ideological opponents of National Socialism allied with them” were the authors of the war against the Reich and the “planned intellectual Combating these powers “is a task necessary for war.

At least eleven institutes or branch offices that have more or less advanced were planned. For example: Institute for Indo-European Spiritual History (Munich), Institute for Biology and Racial Studies ( Stuttgart ), Institute for Religious Studies ( Halle ), Institute for Germanic Research ( Kiel ), Institute for ideological colonial research ( Hamburg ), Institute for German Folklore ( Münster and Graz ), Institute for Eastern Research ( Prague ), Institute for Celtic Research ( Römhild ) and Institute for Research into Germanism and Gallicanism ( Strasbourg ). The institute for research on the Jewish question was opened in Frankfurt am Main on March 26, 1941, as the first institution of this party university . On August 12, 1942, Alfred Baeumler was appointed head of the high school and Kurt Wagner was named as his deputy.

In October 1942, the central library of the High School moved from Berlin to Carinthia , where parts of the library were housed in Tanzenberg Castle. Towards the end of the war, the entire high school was housed in this former Olivetan monastery.

literature

  • Reinhard Bollmus : On the project of a National Socialist alternative university. Alfred Rosenberg's "High School". In: Manfred Heinemann (Ed.): Education and training in the Third Reich, Part 2: University, adult education. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3129331204 , pp. 125-152.
  • Ernst Piper : Alfred Rosenberg - Hitler's chief ideologist. Blessing, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-89667-148-0 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Piper : Alfred Rosenberg. Hitler's chief ideologist. Munich 2005, ISBN 3-89667-148-0 , p. 490 (source: Adunka, 2002, p. 16).
  2. ↑ Martin Moll: "Leader Decrees" 1939–1945. Edition of all surviving directives in the fields of state, party, economy, occupation policy and military administration issued by Hitler in writing during the Second World War, not printed in the Reichsgesetzblatt. Stuttgart 1997, p. 111. Also as a later copy in: IMT: The Nuremberg Trial against the Major War Criminals. Reprint Munich 1989, vol. XXV (= document volume 1), document 136-PS, p. 230.
  3. ^ IMT : The Nuremberg Trial of the Major War Criminals. Reprint Munich 1989, vol. XXV (= document volume 1), document 137-PS, p. 230 f.
  4. ^ IMT: The Nuremberg Trial of the Major War Criminals. Reprint Munich 1989, vol. XXV (= document volume 1), document 149-PS, p. 235.
  5. ^ Jan Björn Potthast: The Jewish Central Museum of the SS in Prague. Opponent Research and Genocide under National Socialism. Frankfurt a. M. / New York 2002, ISBN 3-593-37060-3 , p. 179.