Kurt Schmalz
Kurt Schmalz (born May 19, 1906 in Frankfurt (Oder) ; † November 2, 1964 in Krähenwinkel ) was a German politician during the Nazi era . He was deputy Nazi party leader and member of the Reichstag .
Life
Attending primary school was followed by an apprenticeship as a pastry chef. Schmalz joined the NSDAP on July 10, 1925 ( membership number 9.685) and was active in the SA and Hitler Youth in Lusatia before moving to Braunschweig in 1928 .
NSDAP functionary in Braunschweig
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In mid-1930 he became NSDAP district leader for the state of Braunschweig . In the same year he became the youngest member of the Braunschweig State Parliament . The President of the Landtag, Zörner, described his party comrade Schmalz, who had a speech impediment, in a letter from June 1932 to the Reich Organization Leader Gregor Strasser as follows:
"I know that Herr Rust has eaten a fool of Schmalz and that Schmalz is an obedient and therefore comfortable office manager (I can't find a more suitable expression at the moment) without an opinion of his own, who can work but is never seriously contested for the post of Gauleiter can come ... In addition, he is not quite sure of the German language, so that quite a bit of blunder occurred in speeches. "
In November 1933, Schmalz became a member of the Reichstag. The rise of the NSDAP in Braunschweig, in which he played a major role as a speaker and party official, he describes in his book National Socialists Wrestle for Braunschweig , published in 1934 . From April to June 1933 he was acting head of the Gau Süd-Hannover-Braunschweig , before he was deputy for Gauleiter Bernhard Rust from April 15, 1933 to August 1940, who was often absent as Reich Minister of Education . In December 1940, Hartmann Lauterbacher was appointed as Rust's successor as the new Gauleiter. Schmalz lost his post and was transferred to the " Warthegau " in Posen in March 1941 as deputy to Gauleiter Arthur Greiser .
End of World War II
When the Red Army advanced into the Wartheland in January 1945, Gauleiter Greiser left Posen on January 20 and left Schmalz to continue his official duties. Schmalz was thus also Commander in Chief of the Volkssturm in Wartheland, whose poorly armed units he sent into senseless battles against the Red Army. He himself escaped the Russian troops and was interned in British detention at the end of 1945, where he remained until April 1947. In 1950 he evaded prosecution by the Braunschweig public prosecutor by fleeing for several years. Schmalz died in 1964 in Krähenwinkel, Lower Saxony .
Fonts (selection)
- National Socialists are fighting for Braunschweig. Georg Westermann Verlag, Braunschweig 1934, DNB 576040959 .
literature
- Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 528 .
- Bernhard Kiekenap : The representative from Krähenwinkel. Biographical notes about Kurt Schmalz (1906–1964). Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2012, ISBN 978-3-941737-74-7 .
- Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).
- Klaus Mlynek : SCHMALZ, Kurt. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 317.
- Joachim Lilla (edit.): The deputy Gauleiter and the representation of the Gauleiter of the NSDAP in the "Third Reich". in the series Materials from the Federal Archives. Issue 13, Wirtschaftsverlag NW, Bremerhaven 2003, ISBN 3-86509-020-6 .
- Klaus Mlynek, Dirk Böttcher: Schmalz, Kurt. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 546.
- Reinhard Bein : Hitler's Brunswick staff. DöringDruck, Braunschweig 2017, ISBN 978-3-925268-56-4 , pp. 238–245
Web links
- Literature by and about Kurt Schmalz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Kurt Schmalz in the database of members of the Reichstag
Individual evidence
- ^ Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Dieter Brosius: History of the city of Hanover. Volume 2, Hannover 1994, p. 534.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmalz, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (NSDAP), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt (Oder) |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 2nd, 1964 |
| Place of death | Crow's corner |