Max Luyken
Max Otto Luyken (born October 16, 1885 in Wesel , † April 30, 1945 in Steinhagen ) was a German farmer, politician ( NSDAP ) and SA leader .
Life
Max Otto Luyken attended elementary school and later the grammar schools in Wesel and Moers . From February 1906 he was an active officer in the 1st Lower Alsatian Field Artillery Regiment No. 31 . During the First World War and after the end of the war, he was a captain on the General Staff from 1916 to 1920 .
After being released from the army, Luyken retrained as a merchant in 1920. From 1920 to 1921 he was regional manager of the Escherich organization . As a result, he earned his living as a trader before he settled down as a farmer and poultry farmer in the community of Weseler Wald , where he ran the Boßhövel farm.
In the further course of the 1920s, Luyken joined the NSDAP and also joined their combat formation, the Sturmabteilung (SA). In 1930 he was able to move into the Reichstag for his party for the first time as a member of the Reichstag , to which he belonged from then on without interruption until 1945. In parliament, Luyken initially represented constituency 23 (Düsseldorf-West) from September 1930 to November 1933, then constituency 6 (Pomerania) until March 1936, then constituency 27 (Rheinpfalz-Saar) until April 1938 and finally the constituency until April 1945 34 (Hamburg).
As SA Oberführer from the beginning of January 1931 to mid-April 1932, he headed the SA sub-group in Essen and then the SA group Niederrhein in Düsseldorf until the end of June 1933 . After he had meanwhile been promoted to SA-Gruppenführer on October 15, 1932, from the beginning of July 1933 to the end of January 1934 he was in charge of the SA-Obergruppe II from Stettin, which consisted of the SA groups Hansa , Pommern and Nordmark and was thereafter until the end June 1934 Inspector West of the Supreme SA Leadership (OSAF) in Koblenz . From July 1934 to December 1936 he headed the SA group Kurpfalz in Mannheim and was then head of the SA Reichsführer-School in Munich. On November 9, 1937, he was promoted to SA-Obergruppenführer . From the beginning of November 1937 to the end of January 1942, Luyken was head of the main education office of the upper SA leadership. During the Second World War , from the beginning of September 1941 to the end of April 1945, he was OSAF's liaison leader to the Reich Food Minister and Reichsbauernführer and from the beginning of February 1942 to the end of April 1945 he was the inspector of education and training for drivers and new farmers and people in the SA and the SA armed forces .
Luyken was also from 1933 on the Reichsbauernrat and from 1934 on the board of the Chamber of Agriculture for the Rhine Province . He was also a member of the Friends of the Reichsführer SS and the Prussian State Council . He died in a battle in the last days of the war.
Fonts
- Field Marshal von Mackensen. From Bucharest to Saloniki. Lehmann , Munich 1920.
- Total military training. 1942.
- Thoughts on National Socialist Defense Education. The order of the SA. The Supreme SA leadership, Munich 1942.
literature
- 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
- Literature by and about Max Luyken in the catalog of the German National Library
- Max Luyken in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Entry on Max Luyken in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
- Joachim Lilla : Luyken, Max , in: ders .: Minister of State, senior administrative officials and (NS) officials in Bavaria from 1918 to 1945, URL: < http://verwaltungshandbuch.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/luyken-max >
Individual evidence
- ↑ in the source Franz Maier: Biographical Organizational Manual of the NSDAP and its structures in the area of today's state of Rhineland-Palatinate (= publications of the commission of the state parliament for the history of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. No. 28). 2nd Edition. v. Hase & Koehler, Mainz / Zarrentin 2009, ISBN 978-3-7758-1408-9 says "Steinhagen (Pommern)", the date also fits, but the Westphalian Steinhagen does not
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Luyken, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Luyken, Max Otto (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German farmer and politician (NSDAP), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 16, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wesel |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 30, 1945 |
| Place of death | Steinhagen |