Ludwig Franz Gengler

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ludwig Franz Frank Gengler (born April 17, 1902 in Bamberg ; † October 20, 1946 , probably executed) was a German National Socialist publicist and politician.

Life

Ludwig Gengler was born as the son of the lawyer Gabriel Gengler and Eva Gengler. He studied at the University of Erlangen , where he founded one of the first National Socialist student groups in October 1923. The Erlanger Deutsche Hochschulring , which won the most AStA seats at that time , temporarily cooperated with Gengler's Nazi university group. Gengler was an early confidante of Julius Streicher's . He noticed the radical agitator and asked him to work on the striker and in Frankengau . During his studies in 1925 he became a member of the Frankonia Erlangen fraternity . In addition to his studies, Gengler devoted a large part of his time to political Nazi agitation and journalism and also wrote for Die Flamme . Joseph Goebbels wrote the following about Gengler in his diary on April 13, 1926: “Gengler is a wet slime”. According to Völkischer Beobachter , he spoke in 162 meetings in 1928. He contributed to the fact that the NSDAP became the second strongest force in Nuremberg in the city council elections in 1929. In 1930, Gengler was regarded by party friends as the "spiritual leader of the Nuremberg district". In the same year he was briefly a member of the Nuremberg City Council. The main importance of the fanatically anti-Jewish and anti- Bolshevik agitating Gengler for the NSDAP lay in his journalistic activities. He made contributions to Theodor Fritsch's so-called “Handbook of the Jewish Question” and took over the editing from him.

In 1932 he received his doctorate with the dissertation "The German Monarchists 1919 to 1925". During the time of National Socialism , Gengler joined the notorious institute for the study of the Jewish question . Numerous confidential reports from Gengler from a large number of Reich press conferences to Walter Löhde , an editor of the magazine Am Heiligen Quell Deutscher Kraft , provide information about Nazi press policy. In 1942 he worked for the security service of the Reichsführer SS (SD).

In the German Democratic Republic , several of Gengler's writings were placed on the list of literature to be discarded.

Publications

  • The German monarchists 1919 to 1925. A contribution to the history of the political right from the November revolution in 1918 to the first assumption of the presidency of the Reich by Field Marshal von Hindenburg in 1925 , dissertation in 1932.
  • Fighter pilot Rudolf Berthold : Winner in 44 air battles, slain in the brotherly fight for Germany's freedom , 1934.
  • German arms bearers against Bolshevism , Darmstadt 1937 (ud pseudonym Gerd Gerler).
  • Catholic action in the attack on Germany: the lie of the 'purely religious' advertising campaign , 1937.
  • Freikorps in Germany , 1938.
  • Youth against Versailles and Weimar , Berlin 1938 (ud pseudonym Gerd Gerler).
  • The Jewish War. Jewish attacks and crimes against Germany and Europe in two world wars , 1944.

literature

  • Franco Ruault : New creator of the German people. Julius Streicher in the fight against racial disgrace . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-631-54499-0 .
  • Gerd Simon , with the participation of Lutz Hachmeister , Günther Junghans and Ulrich Schermaul: On the science policy of the SS Security Service in 1942
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft . Volume I: Politicians, Part 7: Supplement A – K, Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 . Pp. 363-366.
  • Joseph Wulf : Press and radio in the Third Reich , Sigbert Mohn, Gütersloh 1964.
  • Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. Completely revised edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deutscher Hochschulring (DHR) , Bavarian Historical Lexicon.
  2. ↑ Quoted in Ernst Klee: Das Kulturlexikon zum Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. Completely revised edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, p. 159.
  3. ^ Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. Completely revised edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, p. 159.
  4. ↑ holding ED 731, Löhde, Walter ; Institute for Contemporary History, Munich - Berlin. Archive - Find aids online.
  5. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-g.html
personal data
SURNAME Gengler, Ludwig Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gengler, Ludwig Franz Frank (full name); Gerler, Gerd (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German National Socialist publicist and politician (NSDAP)
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1946