Max Blank

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Max Hugo Blank (born September 8, 1887 in Węgierska Górka , Austria-Hungary ; † November 9, 1955 ) was a German National Socialist functionary who worked as a chief labor leader in the Reich Labor Service.

Life

He was the son of the factory director Heinrich Blank (1859-1919) and his wife Helene, born Janik, from Ustron in Silesia. After attending secondary school in Gallizien , Max Blank embarked on a military career from 1906. In the First World War he took an active part as a battalion leader in Russia and Italy. In 1920 he retired from military service and settled in Düsseldorf, where he was naturalized in the German Empire, especially in the Free State of Prussia , in 1922 after his birthplace came to Poland after the end of the First World War. Max Blank became managing director of an oil import company in Düsseldorf and traded on the mining exchange in Düsseldorf and Essen. He also became managing director of the Lower Rhine State Federation.

In 1925 he was appointed assistant and head of personnel in the steel wheel association in Düsseldorf. In 1932, Max Blank became a Gau expert for voluntary labor service. He also worked as a guest speaker for the NSDAP . A little later he became Gauarbeitsführer in Reichsarbeitsdienst -Gau XXI (Lower Rhine) based in Düsseldorf . In 1937 he was already Oberstarbeitsführer and in 1943 he was designated as Oberstarbeitsführer in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel, Quirinstrasse 26. His successor as labor leader in the Reich Labor Service Gau Niederrhein was Wilhelm Klein in 1939.

Among other things, he was a member of the Düsseldorf Industry Club.

family

Max Hugo married on February 23, 1911 in Wetter an der Ruhr , thusnelda, born there, Bönnhoff (* 1889). The marriage resulted in a son and two daughters.

Fonts (selection)

  • "The Niers". A major project in Arbeitsgau XXI, Niederrhein (with 1 card) . In: Yearbook of the Reich Labor Service , Vol. 2 1937/38, 1937, pp. 76–79.

Honors

  • Iron Cross 2nd class
  • Military Merit Medal 1st Class
  • Military Merit Cross
  • Front Troop Cross

literature

  • Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? . Xth edition, Berlin 1935, p. 134.
  • Erich Stockhorst : Five thousand heads. Who was what in the Third Reich . blick + bild Verlag S. cap KG, Velbert / Kettwig 1967, p. 60.
  • Michael Hansen: "idealists" and "failed existences". The leader corps of the Reich Labor Service , 2004, p. 16.

Individual proof

  1. ^ The Greater German Reichstag , 1943, p. 60.
  2. ↑ Genealogical data
personal data
SURNAME Blank, max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blank, Max Hugo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German National Socialist functionary
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Węgierska Górka , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1955