Joachim Reuscher

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Joachim Reuscher (born August 19, 1895 in Frankfurt (Oder) , † September 26, 1980 in Hanover ) was a German district administrator , district leader of the NSDAP and SS leader.

Life

Joachim Reuscher attended high schools in Frankfurt (Oder) and Posen . He did military service in World War I , was wounded and received several military awards. In 1917 he became a British prisoner of war, from which he was released in 1919. He was discharged from the army as a first lieutenant. Reuscher completed an agricultural training at the agricultural seminar in Königsberg / Neumark . He joined the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten . In 1926 Reuscher took part in a large agricultural enterprise in Turkey. In 1927 he was back in Germany.

Reuscher had been a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party ( NSDAP ) and the Schutzstaffel (SS) since 1930 . On July 31, 1933, Reuscher was appointed head of the Kurmark propaganda station by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels . From 1933 he was the local group leader of the NSDAP in Königsberg / Neumark. From August 1933 he officiated as district administrator in the district of Königsberg Nm. in the province of Brandenburg ; in June 1934 he was employed full-time in the position. From 1936 to 1938 he also held the post of district leader of the NSDAP. In 1939 Reuscher became SS-Hauptsturmführer . From 1942 to 1943 Reuscher worked as head of the main administration department with the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer and district administrator in the general commissioner of Belarus . From 1943 he worked as a leader in the SS Section XII (Frankfurt a. O.).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Expansion of the state propaganda stations . In: Berliner Morgenpost . No. 183 . Berlin August 2, 1933, p. 3 ( dpmu.de [accessed on February 26, 2020]).
  2. ^ Rainer Bookhagen: The Protestant child care and the inner mission in the time of National Socialism, mobilization of the communities ; Volume 1: 1933-1937 ; Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 1998; ISBN 3-525-55729-9 , p. 1049. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
  3. Soviet Union with annexed areas II: General Commissariat Belarus , footnote 657. ( limited preview with Google Book Search ).