Maximilian you Prel

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Maximilian Freiherr du Prel (born May 7, 1904 in Munich , † July 4, 1945 in Bad Tölz ; full name Maximilien Auguste Raymond Friedrich Marie Georg du Prel, marquis d'Erpeldange, baron de Chapois ) was a German lawyer, author, high NSDAP functionary, editor-in-chief of the Völkischer Beobachter and SS employee ( Sturmbannführer ) in the administration of the Generalgouvernement .

Life

Maximilian du Prel comes from the noble du Prel family . He was a nephew of the occult author Carl du Prel . After attending the humanistic grammar school he was a page at the Royal Bavarian Pagerie in Munich from 1917 to 1918. From 1920 he was a member of national associations such as the German National Protection and Defense Association . In 1923 he participated as a member of the federal Oberland in the Hitler putsch in Munich. In 1924 he worked for several months in the Black Reichswehr and then worked for more than three years in the “passage service” for airlines. Then he studied law. In July 1931 his doctorate he attended the University of Erlangen for Dr. jur.

For the Reich Press Chief Otto Dietrich , du Prel had been working in Munich since early 1932. The NSDAP stepped du Prel early February 1932. ( membership number 916347). At the beginning of January 1933 he became editor of the Völkischer Beobachter . From September 1933 he headed the press office of the Association of National Socialist German Lawyers . From November 1933 he headed the magazine and press office. He also acted as press officer for the German Right Front. From 1934 he was the Reichsamtsleiter of the Reich Press Office of the NSDAP. In 1938 he was designated with the NSDAP rank of "Reichshauptstellenleiter".

After the outbreak of the Second World War , du Prel was from October 1939 to July 1940 Head of the Press and Propaganda Department in the office of Governor General Hans Frank in occupied Poland . He also headed the department for cultural policy at the Institute for German Ostarbeit . In the meantime du Prel had joined the SS in November 1940 (membership no. 382.321). In the SS du Prel rose to SS-Sturmbannführer at the end of January 1941 .

In 1941 he founded the Union of National Journalists' Associations (UNJ) of the fascist countries on behalf of the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (RMVP). He was also the Secretary General of the UNJ. Du Prel was also a member of the "Small Fuhrer Council" of the RDP and the Press Court of the German Reich . His death in 1945 is unclear.

Works

  • Newspaper and newspaper article in copyright law with special consideration of the distinction between the newspaper and the magazine and newspaper picture reporting. Legal dissertation at the University of Erlangen, Munich 1931.
  • The Poles before Berlin - Germany in the mirror of Polish war propaganda Krakow 1940.
  • The German Generalgouvernement of Poland - An overview of the area, design and history of Krakow 1940.
  • The Netherlands in the upheaval of times - old and new relationships with the Reich, On behalf of the Reich Commissioner for occupied Dutch territories, Seyss-Inquart Würzburg 1941.
  • The Generalgouvernement, On behalf of and with a foreword from the Governor General Reichsminister Dr. Hans Frank Wuerzburg 1942.
  • Editor: Series of publications of the Institute for Research and Promotion of the International Press of the Union of National Journalists' Associations Nuremberg.

literature

  • Manuscripts 37 Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin 2003.
  • Irmtrud Wojak and Susanne Meinl (eds.) Unlimited prejudices - anti-Semitism, nationalism and ethnic conflicts in different cultures Frankfurt / Main 2002.
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Lars Jockheck: Propaganda in the Generalgouvernement - The Nazi occupation press for Germans and Poles 1939-1945 , individual publications by the German Historical Institute in Warsaw, Volume 15, fiber publishing house, Osnabrück 2006, ISBN 3-938400-08-0 .,
  • Werner Präg / Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (eds.): The service diary of the German Governor General in Poland 1939–1945 . Publications of the Institute for Contemporary History , Sources and Representations on Contemporary History Volume 20, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-421-01700-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manuscripts 37 Berlin 2003, page 161.
  2. ↑ a b c Werner Präg / Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (Ed.): The service diary of the German Governor General in Poland 1939–1945 , Stuttgart 1975, p. 951
  3. ↑ Lars Jockheck: Propaganda in the General - The Nazi occupation press for German and Poland 1939-1945 , Osnabrück 2006, p 76
  4. ↑ a b Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 472.
  5. ↑ See Foreign Policy Training House of the NSDAP, NSDAP-Reichsleitung (Ed.), Course Catalog 1938/39 Berlin 1938.

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personal data
SURNAME Prel, you Maximilian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prel, Maximilien you; Auguste Raymond Friedrich Marie Georg; marquis d'Erpeldange; baron de Chapois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, NSDAP member and employee in the administration of the Generalgouvernement
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1945
Place of death Bad Tölz