Karl Wilhelm Steinhorst

Karl Wilhelm Steinhorst (born November 6, 1910 in Gelsenkirchen-Buer ; † May 17, 1961 there ) was a German politician and NSDAP district leader.

Life

Origin and family

Karl Wilhelm Steinhorst was born as the son of the miner Karl Steinhorst. On December 5, 1937, he married Else Hartwig. The marriage resulted in three children.

Professional background

After completing elementary school, he graduated from secondary school in Recklinghausen in 1932 and then worked as a miner until 1933. From 1930 Steinhorst was organized in the NS student union and from March 1, 1932 a member of the NSDAP in the local group Buer. He also joined the SA in 1932 and was last storm leader here. After a traineeship at the national newspaper Essen in 1933, he became editor-in-chief a year later and then full-time district chief for press and propaganda at the NSV district administration in Münster; from January 1, 1937 he was a district propaganda leader here. On August 25, 1939, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and served in the occupation forces in France. On the first day of the Russian campaign , he lost an arm. After his recovery, he continued to work as an adjutant in a replacement battalion at his own request. At the end of 1942 he became the leader of a marching company and was deployed in Africa. From March 15, 1943, Steinhorst was released and released from the Wehrmacht as a first lieutenant on June 8, 1943. From July 1, 1943 to the end of 1944, he was a deputy district leader in Paderborn and from January 5, 1945 until the end of the war, he was a deputy district leader in Borken-Bocholt. From May 1945 he lived under the false name Karl-Erich Berndt in Uchte (Nienburg district), while his wife lived under her real name in nearby Sulingen. He found work at a ticket office and was a company representative for liqueurs from 1948 to 1951. On August 1, 1950, Steinhorst was arrested in Nienburg and was remanded in custody in the regional court prison in Münster on suspicion of manslaughter. According to the indictment, he is said to have killed two Volkssturm people on March 23 and 24, 1945 between Bocholt and Borken . He was acquitted by the jury on May 18, 1951, because there might have been self-defense. The appeal by the Münster public prosecutor's office was rejected by the 4th criminal division of the Federal Court of Justice on March 6, 1952. Steinhorst worked as a sales representative in the traveling trade and was in contact with the radical right-wing SRP in Sulingen in 1952 . In 1955 he moved to Krefeld .

literature

• Publications of the State Archives of North Rhine-Westphalia, Series C: Sources and Research, Volume 48: Wolfgang Stelbrink: The district leaders of the NSDAP in Westphalia and Lippe, published by the North Rhine-Westphalian State Archive in Münster
• LG Münster, May 18, 1951 . In: Justice and Nazi crimes . Collection of German convictions for Nazi homicide crimes 1945–1966, Vol. VIII, edited by Irene Sagel-Grande, HH Fuchs, CF Rüter . Amsterdam: University Press, No. 278. Two SA men who had left the digging work on the Dutch border were shot

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Publications of the State Archives of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Series C: Sources and Research, Volume 48: Wolfgang Stelbrink: The district leaders of the NSDAP in Westphalia and Lippe, published by the North Rhine-Westphalian State Archive in Münster, p. 128 ff.