Hermann Kretzschmann

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Hermann Kretzschmann

Hermann Kretzschmann (born October 15, 1886 in Landsberg an der Warthe , † December 31, 1964 in Braunfels ) was a National Socialist German politician and worked in a leading position for the Reich Labor Service.

Life

After attending the community school in Landsberg, the elementary school in Charlottenburg and the adult education center as well as the special school, Kretzschmann worked as an iron and tool dealer in the Berlin textile industry.

During the First World War he served as a medical dog handler on the Western Front from 1914 to 1917 and in 1918 with the air force . He received the Iron Cross II. Class, the Friedrich August Cross II. Class, the Carpathian Corps Badge and the Hungarian World War II Commemorative Medal .

Kretzschmann led, among other things, with Arno Chwatal the Berlin local group of the German Socialist Party founded on June 9, 1920 , which called itself "National Socialists (Streicher Group)" in allusion to its political proximity to Julius Streicher .

On November 19, 1922, Kretzschmann, who had recently joined the Munich NSDAP , took part in the Reichskanzler restaurant in Yorckstrasse in the founding of the Greater German Workers' Party (GDAP, which was supposed to be a North German one, promoted by Gerhard Roßbach , Albert Leo Schlageter and Heinz Oskar Hauenstein) NSDAP, which was nominally thwarted by a NSDAP ban in Prussia shortly before), which he led together with Chwatal and Karl Fahrenhorst until the GDAP was banned on January 10, 1923.

GDAP members set up a pistol shooting range in the basement of Kretzschmann's hardware store in Berlin-Rummelsburg . On the night of September 22nd to 23rd, 1923, a group led by Kretzschmann carried out the consecration of the "first flag of the NSDAP for Berlin Brandenburg" in a tunnel in the lime mine of Rüdersdorf near Berlin.

After the re-admission of the NSDAP, Kretzschmann became a member again in 1925 ( No. 5,848). Since 1929 Kretzschmann was a member of the district assembly and since 1934 district deputy in the Niederbarnim district .

In 1931 Kretzschmann , who had already worked for the Artamanen in the 1920s, joined the voluntary labor service and at the end of the year was trained by the female murderer Paul Schulz in a training camp at the farmer's college in Tzschetzschnow near Frankfurt an der Oder together with Wilhelm Decker and Martin Eisenbeck . In 1932 he held a leading position in the Hammerstein camp founded by Schulz and managed by Cordt von Brandis . In 1933 he was appointed to the Reichsleitung des Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD). In 1934, Kretzschmann was promoted to head of the Reich School of the German Labor Service in Potsdam- Wildpark, succeeding Otto Lancelle , and remained in this post until 1941. Kretzschmann also wrote several books that were used as reading material in RAD training.

After he ran unsuccessfully in the Reichstag election on March 29, 1936 , he moved up to the National Socialist Reichstag on June 22, 1936 for the late Karl Litzmann .

In the Second World War , Kretzschmann was from September 1941 Arbeitsgaufführer in Thuringia . Kretzschmann was directly subordinate to the General Plenipotentiary for Labor Deployment Fritz Sauckel , whose representative he became in the Italian Social Republic at the end of 1943 . There he tried to set up an institution similar to the German Labor Front , but failed - partly due to opposition from Angelo Tarchis .

After the end of the war, Kretzschmann's books “ You for me and I for you! "(1934)," Leisure activities in the German labor service "(1934)," The way to the labor service "(1934)," After-hours in the NS labor service "(1935)," The Reich labor service in words and pictures "(1936) and" Building blocks for the Third Reich ”(1937) placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone . In addition, Kretzschmann wrote the text for a RAD song by Herms Niel When we march like that!

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Schuster: Dissertation: The SA in the National Socialist «seizure of power» in Berlin and Brandenburg 1926–1934. ( German ) Technical University of Berlin. P. 17 f. May 19, 2005. Retrieved May 6, 2009.
  2. ↑ Schuster 2005, p. 22f.
  3. ↑ Schuster 2005, p. 28.
  4. ^ Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 338.
  5. ↑ a b Michael Hansen: "Idealists" and "Failed Existences". The leadership corps of the Reich Labor Service ( German ) University of Trier. P. 82 f. November 2, 2004. Retrieved May 6, 2009.
  6. ^ A b Ernst Klee: The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 306.
  7. ^ Negotiations of the Reichstag, Volume 459, Appendix No. 4 ( German ) Printing and Publishing of the Reichsdruckerei. April 9, 1938. Retrieved May 6, 2009.
  8. ^ Maximiliane Rieder: German-Italian economic relations. Continuities and breaks 1936–1957 . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / Main & New York 2003, p. 303f. ISBN 3-593-37136-7 .
  9. ^ German administration for popular education in the Soviet occupation zone, list of the literature to be sorted out, letter B ( German ) Zentralverlag Berlin. 1946. Retrieved May 6, 2009: “748. Beintker, Paul: Hermann Kretzschmann u. Hans Reichardt: You for me and I for you! A guide to personality education d. German labor service volunteers. - Leipzig: Armanen-Verl. 1934. "
  10. ^ German administration for popular education in the Soviet zone of occupation, list of the literature to be sorted out, letter K ( German ) Zentralverlag Berlin. 1946. Retrieved May 6, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Kretzschmann, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Landsberg on the Warta
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1964
Place of death Braunfels