Karl Fahrenhorst

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Karl Fahrenhorst

Karl Emil Paul Fahrenhorst (* 24. February 1882 in Berlin , † 17th September 1945 in Oranienburg ) was a German journalist , union functionary , racist genealogist and ethnically - Nazi politician .

Life

From 1905 he was Secretary General of the Protestant Youth Welfare Service , then until 1918 as a soldier in World War I in the field and head leader of the soldiers' homes of Army Group Linsingen and Eichhorn .

On November 19, 1922, Fahrenhorst took part in the "Reichskanzler" restaurant in Yorckstrasse in the founding of the Greater German Workers' Party (GDAP), which was promoted by Gerhard Roßbach , Albert Leo Schlageter and Heinz Oskar Hauenstein served, and which he led together with Arno Chwatal and Hermann Kretzschmann until the GDAP was banned on January 10, 1923.

In autumn 1922, together with Roßbach, Fahrenhorst founded the “Workers' Liberation League ” in Berlin, a rescue organization for the banned German National Guard and Defense Association .

Since 1923 he was in Charlottenburg leaders of the co-founder of Chwatal "Reich Federal Nationalist struggle unions" and a senior member of DFVP . In the founding appeal, Fahrenhorst incited against "Jewish finance capital " and praised Adolf Hitler as the historical savior of the German workers:

"That is the great historical merit of Adolf Hitler, to have seen the German workers and thereby enabled them to carry out their historical mission to free the German people from the slave chains of stock market capital to the full."

From 1923 on, Fahrenhorst (until 1935) was the editor of Der Deutsche Roland , the bulletin of the German Roland founded in 1904 by Bernhard Koerner , the Association for German-Völkische Kinskunde zu Berlin eV

In May 1924 , Fahrenhorst was elected to the Reichstag on the Reich election proposal, where he represented the National Socialist Freedom Party , a list association made up of DVFP and substitute organizations of the NSDAP, which was banned at the time, in the second election period . Fahrenhorst's list place was originally intended for a National Socialist. When drawing up the list, DVFP leader Albrecht von Graefe Fahrenhorst gave the Nazis "untruthful" as a Nazi supporter.

In a parliamentary speech on the issue of welfare for disabled people, Fahrenhorst rushed against the " State Court for the Protection of Jewish Supremacy in Leipzig", calling the revolution of November 9, 1918 "the greatest crime in world history" and a "Jewish stock market revolution "; claimed that the Dawes Plan , based on the "question of the guilt lie ", would " press German workers into slave labor of Jewish international big business"; advised to expropriation of the "whole [n] Eastern Jewish [n] Galiziergesindel [s] that the kaftan fully lice came to Germany" to solve all the social issues and predicted to a "People's State", which one the necessary by "fight on Streets of Berlin ”. Because of the expression "three times cursed Jewish republic" he was called to order by the Vice President of the Reichstag, Johannes Bell .

In 1925 he became a district councilor in Charlottenburg . In 1928 he was a member of the executive council of the German National Freedom Movement (DVFB); at the same time he headed the "Bund völkischer Freiheitskampf", the paramilitary security and propaganda troops of the DVFB. From 1928 to 1931, Fahrenhorst joined the NSDAP from the DVFB. From 1931 he was a city ​​councilor in Berlin .

In 1933, Fahrenhorst was elected to the last free Prussian state parliament for the NSDAP . Here he was managing director of the NSDAP parliamentary group. In September 1933 he was elected to represent Achim Gercke as leader of the Reich Association for Family Research and Heraldry Associations, and remained in this position until Gercke's fall in early 1935.

On April 1, 1935 he was mayor (until 1940) of Prenzlau . During the same period he became a freelancer for the "Expert for Race Research" in the Reich Ministry of the Interior . As a "race scientist " he wrote in Kretzschmann's book Building Blocks for the Third Reich :

“ With its legislation, the government of the National Socialist Revolution created the prerequisites for German genealogical research to become a matter of the people. Every German has to deal with the history of his gender. In every German national comrade , the knowledge of the depth of historical and blood-based ties between his clan and the great German people must come to life. "

Fahrhorst was also a member of the Reich leadership of the Faith Movement of German Christians .

literature

  • Ernst Kienast (Ed.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag , edition for the 5th electoral period, Berlin 1933, p. 319.
  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , p. 132 .
  • Oranienburg City Archives, repository 14 ´Standesamt Oranienburg`, Oranienburg death register 1945, vol. 2, reg. No. 1244/1945.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Martin Schuster: The SA in the National Socialist "seizure of power" in Berlin and Brandenburg 1926-1934. Technical University of Berlin 2005, pp. 22, 43.
  2. Werner Maser : The early history of the NSDAP: Hitler's way until 1924 . Athenäum-Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. and Bonn 1965, p. 317.
  3. Quoted from Othmar Plöckinger: History of a book: Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” 1922–1945. A publication by the Institute for Contemporary History. Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, p. 110. ISBN 3-486-57956-8 .
  4. Martin Döring: "Parliamentary arm of the movement." The National Socialists in the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic. (= Contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties, Volume 130) Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5237-4 , p. 433.
  5. Speech at the 12th session of the Reichstag on June 26, 1924, in: Negotiations of the Reichstag, Volume 381, pp. 337, 339f. See Döring, Parlamentarischer Arm , p. 209.
  6. Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: Extras in Uniform: The members of the Reichstag 1933-1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , p. 132 .
  7. Volkmar Weiss : Prehistory and consequences of the Aryan ancestral pass: On the history of genealogy in the 20th century. Neustadt an der Orla: Arnshaugk, 2013, p. 101 and p. 134, ISBN 978-3-944064-11-6 .
  8. City administration. ( Memento from April 20, 2007 in the web archive archive.today )
  9. Quoted from Stefan Krebs, Werner Tschacher: "Family research and race politics" - Albert Huyskens and the Aachen myth of Catholic resistance. Lecture manuscript (October 20, 2005), p. 5; quoted there from Cornelia Schmitz-Berning: Vocabulary of National Socialism . Berlin, New York 1998, keyword “Family Research”, p. 579.