Karl Motz (administrative officer)

Karl Motz (born October 16, 1906 in Langula ; † 1978 ) was a German engineer and administrative officer .

Life

After attending the scholarly school of the Johanneum in Hamburg , Karl Motz began studying engineering (civil engineering) at the Technical University of Munich , which he completed in 1931 with an engineering degree. During his studies he joined the National Socialist German Student Union (NSDStB) and was elected head of the student body (AStA). He joined the SA in April 1929 , became a member of the NSDAP the same month (membership number 122.014) and from 1930 worked as a Gau or Reich speaker for the party. In December 1931 he was appointed SA-Sturmbannführer.

After completing his studies, Motz worked for the NSDAP Reich leadership as a consultant for the Reich Agricultural Policy Office headed by Walther Darré . In 1933 he was appointed to the government council and rose to the position of head of the Ostland subdivision himself to head of office. In addition, he acted as head of the main advertising department in the Reichsnährstand and as a consultant for agricultural and eastern issues in the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda . In these functions he was instrumental in the creation of the filmic works Blood and Soil: The Foundations of the German Future and Old Germanic Peasant Culture . In May 1933 Motz had already transferred from the SA to the SS . In addition to his full-time activity, from mid-1933 to February 1937 he was in charge of the training office of the SS Race and Settlement Office, which was still being established . In 1937 he was promoted to SS-Oberführer . He later took part in World War II as an officer .

literature

• Erich Stockhorst : Five thousand heads. Who had which role in the third Reich. , Blick + Bild, Velbert / Kettwig 1967, p. 298.
• Herrmann AL Degener : Who's it 1935. Xth edition. Verlag Hermann Degener, Berlin 1935, p. 1098.