Kurt Hintze

Kurt Gustav Ernst Hintze (born October 8, 1901 in Fehrbellin ; † November 13, 1944 in Kattowitz ) was an SS Brigade Leader and Major General of the Police, German politician ( NSDAP ) and SS and Police Leader (SSPF) in Kauau and Lithuania.

Live and act

After attending elementary school in Berlin and Berlin-Schöneberg , Hintze worked as an unskilled worker in ammunition factories from 1915. From 1918 he worked in the agricultural sector in Brüsenhagen and in 1929 became a married deputy worker on a farm. In addition, he was a member of the property tax committee for the Wittstock district in 1929/30.

From 1921 to 1922 he was a member of the German Social Party . In the summer of 1923 Hintze was a member of the Black Reichswehr . After that he became a member of the Roßbach and Frontbann working group . For the National Socialist Freedom Party (NSFP) he appeared as a speaker in 1924/25. At the beginning of September 1928 he became a member of the NSDAP and SA , where he worked part-time as SA leader. From May 1929 to July 1930 he was local group leader in Dossow and later district leader Ostprignitz.

From July 1932 to November 1933 for constituency 4 (Potsdam I) and from March 1936 to his death in 1944 for constituency 6 (Pomerania) and from 1938 for constituency 20 (Cologne-Aachen), Hintze sat as a member of the NSDAP in the Reichstag . In 1933/34 he became department head of the Reichsfuhrer School in Munich. He then led SA Brigade 7, Neu-Stettin, in Pomerania from October 1, 1934 to December 1, 1936 and then retired from full-time SA service after three years due to illness. On November 9, 1935, Hintze had been promoted to SA Oberführer . From mid-January to the end of July 1937 he was Reichsfachgruppenwalter of the fruit, vegetables and canned group at the DAF . At the beginning of July 1937 he switched from the SA to the SS (membership number 282.066). From October 1937 to February 1940 he was the leader of SS Section XI in Koblenz .

After the beginning of the Second World War , Hintze was deployed in German-occupied Poland from November 1939 to February 1940 as SS and self-protection leader and was responsible for refugee tasks at the Higher SS and Police Leader East in Krakow . After that he was leader of SS-Section XXXXI in Thorn until April 1941 . From September to November 1940 he did military service in the Waffen SS .

From January 1941 Hintze worked closely with Heinrich Himmler in his capacity as Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Volkstum in the German-occupied areas of Eastern Europe: Hintze was appointed there as a special resettlement officer and for the field of labor. From November 1943 to February 1944 he was special representative of the RFSS for the Kurmark military training area near Lübben . From February 1944 Hintze was SSPF Kauen and from April 1944 to mid-September 1944 Hintze was SSPF in Lithuania . On May 11, 1944, the SS Brigadefuehrer Kurt Hintze issued a strict alcohol ban until the end of the year because of “lack of control, drunkenness and megalomania”. Then he was the representative of the Reich Defense Commissioner of Upper Silesia at the fortress construction staff in Katowice and liaison man of the Higher SSPF Southeast to Gauleiter Fritz Bracht . He died in an air raid in Katowice in 1944.

literature

Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 (= Fischer. 16048). Updated edition, 2nd edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .

Web links

Kurt Hintze in the database of members of the Reichstag
Entry on Kurt Hintze in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database

Individual evidence

^ Date of death with Ernst Klee : Personal Lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 , p. 258 and Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933-1945. Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5162-9 , p. 287. Deviating from this, the date of death December 13, 1944 in Robert Thévoz, Hans Branig: Pommern 1934/1935. 1974, p. 291.
↑ Klaus Neitmann , Winfried Meyer: Forced labor during the Nazi era in Berlin and Brandenburg. 2001, p. 180.
↑ Sven Felix Kellerhoff: Finding files: In the SS there was "drunkenness" and "megalomania" . In: THE WORLD . May 16, 2020 ( welt.de [accessed on May 16, 2020]).

personal data
SURNAME	Hintze, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hintze, Kurt Gustav Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (NSDAP), MdR, SS brigade leader as well as SS and police leader
DATE OF BIRTH	October 8, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH	Fehrbellin
DATE OF DEATH	November 13, 1944
Place of death	Katowice

[1] Date of death with Ernst Klee : Personal Lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 , p. 258 and Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933-1945. Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5162-9 , p. 287. Deviating from this, the date of death December 13, 1944 in Robert Thévoz, Hans Branig: Pommern 1934/1935. 1974, p. 291.

[2] Klaus Neitmann , Winfried Meyer: Forced labor during the Nazi era in Berlin and Brandenburg. 2001, p. 180.

[3] Sven Felix Kellerhoff: Finding files: In the SS there was "drunkenness" and "megalomania" . In: THE WORLD . May 16, 2020 ( welt.de [accessed on May 16, 2020]).