Josef Altinger

Josef Altinger (born February 3, 1904 in Aham ; † September 12, 1943 ) was a former Roman Catholic priest and National Socialist . From 1935 to 1940 he worked in the security service of the Reichsführer SS .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1923, the son of an innkeeper entered the Benedictine monastery in Metten and took the religious name Erminold. On January 6, 1926, he made his temporary profession and on January 6, 1929, he moved to the Niederaltaich monastery . At the same time he studied theology, classical philology, history, pedagogy and German at the University of Munich from 1924 to 1930 . He was ordained a priest on June 29, 1929, after serious problems and transfers he left the monastery in 1935. The date of his entry into the NSDAP is unknown, because due to "incomplete sources" only the membership number 3.611.329 is known, which "does not generally allow conclusions to be drawn about the time of entry". The SS came Altinger in 1935, was on 25 March 1935 untersturmführer and on 9 November 1940 obersturmführer transported.

Altinger came to the security service of the Reichsführer SS in May 1935 through the mediation of his former classmate Ernst Himmler , the brother of the Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler . After training with the SS auxiliary troops , he was from 1936 in Office II of the SD Main Office “Inland” within its Section II / 113 “Confessional and Political Currents” as a clerk for “religious orders”. On May 19, 1936 , he suggested to Reinhard Heydrich to exploit moral trials against clergy in journalistic terms and to work towards the closure of "all homes run by monastic moral criminals". Altinger one tried in 1937, V-man "of the Fulda Bishops Conference Commissariat" in the infiltrate, and used his former connections to the Benedictine order to win informant for the SD from this area. From 1937 to 1939 Altinger was assigned to the SD Upper Section Northeast . After German- speaking minorities who had come under Soviet rule were to be resettled to Germany in the wake of the German-Soviet border and friendship treaty of September 28, 1939, Altinger was active in a "resettlement commission" on the territory of the USSR in 1939/40 and died According to the incomplete files, on September 12, 1943, as a member of the Wehrmacht, “suffered from angina and facial rose”.

literature

• Wolfgang Dierker : Himmler's religious warrior . The SS Security Service and its Religious Policy 1933–1941 . [= Publications of the Commission for Contemporary History. Row B: Research. Vol. 92]. Schöningh, Paderborn 2002, ISBN 3-506-79997-5 (Zugl .: Bonn, Univ., Diss., 2000). With short biography, p. 551.
• Kevin Spicer: Hitler's Priests. Catholic Clergy and National Socialism, DeKab 2008, p. 241

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ordinary file of Niederaichtal Abbey .
2. ↑ Wolfgang Dierker: Himmler's religious warriors . The SS Security Service and its Religious Policy 1933–1941 . Schöningh, Paderborn 2002, p. 551.
3. ↑ Wolfgang Dierker: Himmler's religious warriors . The SS Security Service and its Religious Policy 1933–1941 . Schöningh, Paderborn 2002, p. 180f.
4. ↑ Wolfgang Dierker: Himmler's religious warriors . The SS Security Service and its Religious Policy 1933–1941 . Schöningh, Paderborn 2002, pp. 352f.
5. ↑ Wolfgang Dierker: Himmler's religious warriors . The SS Security Service and its Religious Policy 1933–1941 . Schöningh, Paderborn 2002, p. 371f.
6. ↑ The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 . Vol. 3. Oldenbourg, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-58524-7 , p. 163, FN 6
7. ↑ Wolfgang Dierker: Himmler's religious warriors . The SS Security Service and its Religious Policy 1933–1941 . Schöningh, Paderborn 2002, p. 551.