Kurt Budaeus

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Kurt Budäus (born March 6, 1908 in Leipzig , † April 16, 1963 in Velbert ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

Life

After attending school, Budäus completed a degree. In 1933 he joined the Reichswehr . He then worked as a foreign correspondent in Italy and France . On May 1, 1933, he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 2,994,796). He had previously been a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA) from September 1932 to March 1933 . He had been a member of the Hitler Youth (HJ) since September 1931. He did his military service in the Reichswehr in 1933. He then worked as a foreign correspondent in Italy and France.

After attending the HJ regional leadership school in Oberweser, Budäus worked for the HJ regional leadership in Lower Saxony , most recently as head of staff. In March 1939 he became deputy head of the authorities department of the Reich Youth Leadership (RJF) and deputy inspector of the Adolf Hitler schools . After temporarily participating in World War II , in which he was awarded the Knight's Cross, he took over the academy for youth leadership and the management of the Adolf Hitler schools. Furthermore, the HJ area leader at the RJF headed, among other things, the Office for Personnel Management in 1941 and from January 1943, where he was school and university officer.

On December 14, 1943, Budäus entered the National Socialist Reichstag as a replacement procedure , to which he belonged as a representative of constituency 35 until the end of the Nazi regime.

From November 1944 he led a unit of the 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitler Youth" and was promoted to Sturmbannführer in the Waffen SS .

After the end of the war, Budäus and other former Hitler Youth functionaries were arrested by members of the US Army in the spring of 1946 , as they were accused of belonging to a Hitler Youth underground organization.

literature

  • Michael Buddrus : Total education for total war. Hitler Youth and National Socialist Youth Policy. Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3598116152 .
  • 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 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Michael Buddrus: Total education for total war. Hitler Youth and National Socialist Youth Policy , Munich 2003, p. 1130
  2. ^ Joachim Lilla (editor): extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945 , Düsseldorf 2004
  3. cf. Volker Koop : Himmler's last line-up. The Nazi organization "Werewolf". Böhlau, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20191-3 , p. 252