Kuno from Eltz-Rübenach

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Kuno from Eltz-Rübenach
Heraldic shield of the Barons von Eltz-Rübenach

Kuno Heinrich Franziskus Maria Hubertus Reichsfreiherr and noble lord von und zu Eltz-Rübenach (born  November 20, 1904 at Wahn Castle ; † January 30, 1945 in Várpalota , Hungary ) was a member of the Reichstag of the NSDAP and SS brigad leader .

Life

Eltz-Rübenach passed his Abitur in 1923 after attending elementary school and the humanistic grammar school in Bedburg . From 1924 to 1929 he studied art history, philosophy, folk and agriculture at the universities of Rostock , Munich , Berlin , Marburg and Bonn with interruptions and without a degree . Between 1926 and October 1927 Eltz-Rübenach was trained as a pilot at the Stettin sports flying school and at the Schleissheim commercial flying school. From 1929 he completed an apprenticeship in agricultural estate management. In 1932 Eltz-Rübenach took over the family estates in Wahn , Merheim , Rübenach and Kühlseggen .

While studying in Marburg, Eltz-Rübenach joined the NSDAP ( membership number 92.775) on July 1, 1928 . Between August 1928 and September 1929 he was also a member of the SA as a storm leader . At the same time he was active in the National Socialist German Student Union (NSDStB) as a student union leader in Marburg and Bonn and as NSDStB-Gau leader in the Gau Hessen-Nassau-Nord. Between 1929 and 1932 Eltz-Rübenach led the NSDAP local group Bonn-Stadt; around 1931 he was also district manager for the Bonn-Land district.

Between April 24, 1932 and October 14, 1933 Eltz-Rübenach was a member of the Prussian state parliament ; After the National Socialists came to power, he received a seat in the Reichstag in November 1933 . In addition, from 1933 to 1942 he was first alderman of the Porz-Wahn community.

As early as 1930 Eltz-Rübenach was active as an agricultural politician for the NSDAP in the Rhineland and held a large number of offices: From 1931 he was the agricultural district advisor in the Cologne-Aachen district of Gauleiter Joseph Grohé . On July 21, 1933, he was the country peasant leader of the country's peasantry Rhineland and the regional representative of the Reich peasant leader Richard Walther Darré . On the same day he took over the management of the district office for agricultural policy. Eltz-Rübenach became a member of the German Reichsbauernrat in 1933 ; then from April 1941 of the Reich Advisory Board for Food and Agriculture . From September 1939 to 1943 he headed the food office of the Rhine Province.

On June 8, 1936, Eltz-Rübenach joined the SS (SS No. 276,592) with the rank of SS Obersturmbannführer . As of January 30, 1937 with the rank of SS-Standartenführer, an honorary procedure against Eltz-Rübenach was initiated on November 26, 1937 for unknown reasons before the "Great Arbitration Court of the Reichsführer-SS". The proceedings were discontinued on March 22, 1938.

During the Second World War , Eltz-Rübenach was called up on November 13, 1939 to the SS standard "Germania", part of the emerging Waffen-SS . First SS-Oberscharführer of the reserve, then from April 12, 1940 in the rank of SS-Untersturmführer of the reserve, he participated in the western campaign in an infantry gun company, was released from the Waffen-SS on June 8, 1940 and two days later to Obersturmführer of the Waffen SS promoted.

Heinrich Himmler, as Reichsführer of the SS, wrote to Martin Bormann on February 28, 1943, proposing Eltz-Rübenach for a later assignment as Gauleiter. That never happened: from October 1943 to January 1944, Eltz-Rübenach was the head of the military administration and head of the food and agriculture department at the Plenipotentiary General of the German Wehrmacht in Italy Wolff . On November 8, 1943, Eltz-Rübenach was promoted to SS-Brigadführer in the General SS and, retrospectively, to SS-Oberführer from November 9, 1942. On March 1, 1944, he was called up again for the Waffen SS; From May 10, 1944 he was a platoon leader in the assault gun division of the 3rd SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf" a . a. used in Hungary. Eltz-Rübenach died in the final phase of the Second World War in the fighting in Hungary against the Red Army .

literature

  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
  • Michael Rademacher: Handbook of the NSDAP Gaue 1928 - 1945. The officials of the NSDAP and their organizations at Gau and district level in Germany and Austria as well as in the Reichsgau Gdansk-West Prussia, Sudetenland and Wartheland. Lingenbrink, Vechta 2000, ISBN 3-8311-0216-3 .
  • Ronald Smelser , Enrico Syring , Rainer Zitelmann (eds.): The brown elite. 21 further biographical sketches. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1993. ISBN 3-534-80122-9 .
  • Erich Stockhorst: Five thousand heads. Who had which role in the third Reich. Blick und Bild Verlag, Velbert 1967
  • Holger Zinn: Between Republic and Dictatorship. The student body of the Philipps University of Marburg from 1925 to 1945. SH Verlag, Cologne 2002 (During the student days in Marburg)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to documents from the Ludwigsburg central office, fallen on January 10, 1945 in Székesfehérvár (German: Stuhlweissenburg).
  2. ^ Enrollment of Kuno von Eltz-Rübenach in the Rostock matriculation portal
personal data
SURNAME Eltz-Rübenach, Kuno von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eltz-Rübenach, Kuno Heinrich Franziskus Maria Hubertus Imperial Baron and Noble Lord von und zu (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR, MdL and SS-Brigadführer
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Wahn Castle near Cologne
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1945
Place of death Várpalota , Hungary