Leo house manager

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Leo Friedrich Hausleiter (born January 9, 1889 in Munich , † January 8, 1968 in Wolfratshausen) was a German journalist and politician ( NSDAP ).

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Youth, training and the First World War

House manager was the son of the factory owner Lorenz house manager and Margarete Kretschmann. In his youth he attended elementary school, middle school and a humanistic grammar school . After graduating from high school, house manager studied architecture (structural engineering) and economics at the technical universities in Stuttgart and Munich. He finished his studies with a degree in engineering.

On October 1, 1913, Hausleiter joined the 3rd Field Artillery Regiment "Prince Leopold" of the Bavarian Army . With the regiment he took part in the battles in Lorraine after the outbreak of World War I , fought in Alsace and Galicia in 1915, in Transylvania in 1916, again in Alsace, and on the Somme and again in Galicia and Lorraine in 1917. During the war he was promoted to lieutenant and awarded both classes of the Iron Cross and the Order of Military Merit.

Weimar Republic

After the war, the house manager took part in the smashing of the Bavarian Soviet Republic in Munich. After that he earned his living with different activities: Among other things, he was the owner of a furnace company where the young Rudolf Hess worked as an authorized signatory. On December 12, 1921, he married Charlotte Westermann (born October 13, 1883 in Nuremberg). The sons Leo Cecil Laurenz Karl Walter (born July 28, 1923 in Munich; † August 29, 1943 near Charkow) and Leo Cornelis August Peter Giselher Hermann (born April 19, 1925) resulted from the marriage. Two other children, a son and a daughter, who were born in 1922, died in their first year of life.

From 1923 to 1927 house manager was the head of a stock corporation. In 1928 he became a freelance writer. In this capacity, he finally began to work as a freelance editor for economic policy at the then much-read southern German daily Münchener Neuesten Nachrichten (MNN). He also wrote for various other newspapers and magazines which the Knorr and Hirth publishing house, which published the MNN, published. Through his former employee Hess, with whom he remained on friendly terms, house manager came into close contact with the NSDAP as early as the 1920s, which he joined in 1932 ( membership number 1.411.505).

time of the nationalsocialism

When, a few weeks after the National Socialists had been entrusted with the leadership of the Reich government in Berlin, government power in Bavaria was also taken over by the National Socialists in the spring of 1933, the Knorr und Hirth publishing house was stormed on March 23, 1933: Heinrich Himmler , at that time Head of the Bavarian Police, then appointed house manager as commissioner in the publishing house. To further support Hausleiter's position, Hausleiter von Himmler was admitted to the SS (membership number 36.063), in which he was assigned to the security service of the SS (SD) and, at Himmler's instigation, received the comparatively high rank of Hauptsturmführer immediately after his admission. Together with his Mitkommissar Knorr and Hirth Paul Edmund Hahn economist resulted in the following months DC circuit by the publishing house and the belonging to him newspapers. As part of this activity, the house manager and Hahn systematically cleaned the publishing house of employees who did not conform to the Nazi ideology, who dismissed them and in some cases - such as B. Erwein von Aretin - even had them arrested, and so within a short time brought a considerable part of the Bavarian press to the National Socialist line and especially to the Himmler camp.

As a commissioner at Knorr and Hirth, Hausleiter brought editors from the circle around the magazine Die Tat to the editorial staff of the MNN, including in particular Giselher Wirsing . The collaboration with Hahn quickly developed into an intense power struggle, which the house manager won in May 1933 when Hahn was arrested - possibly at the house manager's instigation - and soon afterwards sent to the Dachau concentration camp . On the other hand, the brief activity of the house manager as editor-in-chief of the MNN, which he had taken over provisionally after Wilhelm Fried left and in which he was soon replaced by the more effective savoy cabbage, was unsuccessful . In July 1933, despite this experience, house manager took over the editing of the Süddeutsche monthly magazine . His political influence had reached its peak at this time as an employee of the security service of the Reichsführer SS (SD), the Bavarian Political Police and, above all, as head of the Bavarian Protective Detention Commission , which was responsible for making decisions about and ordering concentration camp admissions.

In December 1935, Hausleiter ended as editor-in-chief when Knorr and Hirth were incorporated into Eher Verlag , the party publisher of the NSDAP, whereby the director of Eher Verlag, Max Amann , forced his resignation.

Instead, house manager became director of the Hamburg World Economic Archives (HWWA; April 15, 1936 to 1945) and head of the Hamburg World Economic Institute (HWWI) founded on his initiative on December 1, 1937. During this time he continued to volunteer for the SD, which he supplied with information that he became aware of through his work.

During the Second World War, at the end of 1941, the house manager set up the evaluation center of the Technical and Economic World Specialist Press eV (TWWA). He also went public with a series of propaganda-tinged publications on the war. In the SS he received the rank of Oberführer in November 1943.

After the end of the Second World War, Hausleiter was interned by the British military government on May 10, 1945 and interned until February 14, 1948 . The Bielefelder Spruchkammer sentenced him to a fine of 10,000 Reichsmarks that year, of which 5,000 RM were considered to have been settled through internment.

SS promotions

  • April 23, 1934: SS-Hauptsturmführer
  • June 1, 1934: SS-Sturmbannführer
  • April 20, 1936: SS-Obersturmbannführer
  • January 30, 1939: SS Standartenführer
  • November 9, 1943: SS-Oberführer

Fonts

  • Revolution of the world economy from the first steam engine to the dawn of gold. With 9 diagrams. 1931.
  • Is England Strong Enough? Hamburg. Welt-Wirtschafts-Institut EV For an inventory see p. World power position. 1939.
  • Quo vadis, America? Hamburgisches Welt-Wirtschafts-Institut EV The political and economic. United States location. 1940.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Register Office Munich I: Birth register for the year 1889: Birth certificate No. 1889/277.
personal data
SURNAME House manager, Leo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES House manager, Leo Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and politician (NSDAP)
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 20th century