NSDAP foreign organization in Ireland
The NSDAP foreign organization in Ireland consisted of a local branch of the NSDAP in Dublin . Within the party, it was subordinate to State Office VIII of the NSDAP foreign organization .
organization
A cell of the NSDAP for Ireland was founded on May 12, 1934 at the suggestion of the regional group leader for Great Britain Otto Bene , initially as part of the local branch in London. The cell was soon upgraded to its own local chapter, as the Irish Secretary of State for External Relations, Joseph Walshe , demanded that this was appropriate to the Saorstát Éireann as an independent state.
The Colonel of the Irish Military Music Fritz Brase (1865-1940) was elected first chairman, but he did not keep the position because of his official position. Instead, until he left Ireland in July 1939, the director of the Irish National Museum and "April Nazi" Adolf Mahr , who later made a career in the radio propaganda department of the Foreign Office, became chairman . The graduate engineer and director of Siemens-Schuckert , Oswald Müller-Dubrow , was the treasurer. As an offshoot, a "German Association" was founded on November 17, 1934, which wanted to include all Germans in Ireland. About 240 people joined. Mahr's successor was the chief advisor of the Turf Development Board , Heinz Mecking .
On May 20, 1935, the local group had 31 members. The number of Germans in Ireland, which had been 343 in 1935, of whom 182 were Reich Germans and 161 ethnic Germans, decreased by the beginning of the war. The German envoy Eduard Hempel joined the party in 1938. In 1939 there were almost 200 Germans living in the 26 counties , including 54 former Austrians.
The group held regular public meetings and was received frequently at the legation, which was headed from 1934 to 1936 by the envoy Wilhelm von Kuhlmann . The party members were increasingly monitored by Irish military intelligence G2 .
literature
- Yearbook of the foreign organization of the NSDAP; Berlin 1939–42
- Horst Dickel: German foreign policy and the Irish question from 1932 to 1944 , Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1983 ISBN 3-515-03896-5 . Frankfurt (Main), Univ., Diss., 1980
- John P. Duggan: Neutral Ireland and the Third Reich , Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1985 ISBN 0-7171-1384-1 .
Archives:
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Political archive of the Federal Foreign Office :
- Chef A / O (Office of the Chief Foreign Organization), Files Concerning Ireland 1937–1941, Volume 94
- Inland II g, Nazi and fascist working groups abroad, December 15, 1936
Web links
- Party comrades in the Irish civil service ( Memento of November 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (en.)
- David O'Donoghue: State within a state: the Nazis in neutral Ireland , History Ireland, 2009 (en.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Sturm, Hubert; Swastika and Kleblatt Frankfurt 1984; Set .: European University Writings, III, 222; ISBN 3-8204-8047-1 , pp. A18-A26
- ↑ with adult family members 315. Secretary of the Sehlmann Legation to AA, December 17, 1934, printed in: Sturm (1984), pp. A21f
- ↑ Died in Soviet captivity. Hull (2003), p. 295.
- ↑ Files of the G2 for September 1939 result in: 194 Germans, 52 former Austrians and 188 Italians. Most lived in Dublin. Hull, Mark; Irish Secrets; Dublin 2003; ISBN 0-7165-2756-1 ; P. 29, fn. 4