NSDAP sacrificial ring

The NSDAP's ring of sacrifices was an institution of the National Socialist German Workers' Party below the Reich level for the regular collection of financial donations.

history

For the first time a sacrificial ring of the NSDAP can be proven in 1927 in the Gau Upper Bavaria-Swabia . Since a considerable part of the regular membership fees had to be paid to the Reich leadership, the structures below were often poorly funded. The income from the sacrificial ring, on the other hand, remained at the local or regional level, which subsequently led to the establishment of numerous sacrificial rings at local, district and district level. According to the wishes of the Reich leadership of the NSDAP , the sacrificial rings were to be formed primarily from “wealthy friends and supporters of the party”.

In addition to financing the party at the lower level, the sacrificial ring also served to record people who did not belong to the NSDAP for various reasons, as well as the financial levy of members who did not do any active party work. Collecting was usually done with the issue of stamps that were stuck on their own membership cards and in membership cards. This enabled the collecting activity of the lower levels to be monitored well by the higher level.

In 1936 the activity of the sacrificial rings was initially restricted when the Reich Treasurer of the NSDAP, Franz Xaver Schwarz, prohibited their re-establishment or expansion. By an order from Schwarz in March 1943, they were finally banned because it was “not compatible with the reputation of the movement” to use the sacrificial ring to “allow an organization to exist as an institution of the party whose sole task is to collect contributions” . Nevertheless, many sacrificial rings apparently continued to exist until the end of the war in 1945.

During the denazification , the sacrificial ring was not classified as a division of the NSDAP. In the literature on National Socialism, however, it is often mistakenly mistaken for a separate division of the party (probably mainly due to the difficult source situation). However, at no time did it exist at the imperial level.

There were also sacrificial rings in some NSDAP regional groups abroad .

A distinction must be made between the Alsace ring of sacrifices , which was formed in Alsace after the German occupation of France in the autumn of 1940 and was a preliminary stage for acceptance into the NSDAP.

There is also said to have been a sacrificial ring of the National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV). However, there is no reference to this in the relevant literature on NSI.

Web links

• Excerpt from the law for the liberation from National Socialism and militarism of March 5, 1946 with implementation regulations, forms, the instructions for the evaluators of the registration forms and the ranking list in multicolored reproduction, on official order and with notes and subject index provided by Erich Schullze , third party and supplemented edition with addendum, containing the 2nd amendment law, the homecoming amnesty u. a., Biederstein Verlag, Munich 1948

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mathias Rösch : The Munich NSDAP 1925-1933. An investigation into the internal structure of the NSDAP in the Weimar Republic . Oldenbourg, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-486-56670-9 , p. 470.
2. ^ Carl-Wilhelm Reibel : The foundation of the dictatorship: The NSDAP local groups 1932-1945 . Paderborn 2002, ISBN 3-506-77528-6 , p. 245 with reference to the service instructions for local groups and bases and their subdivisions of the NSDAP on cash and bookkeeping as well as on business transactions , 2nd edition, Munich 1932, p. 19.
3. ↑ Hans Wagner : Pocket Dictionary of National Socialism . Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1934, p. 170.
4. ↑ Rösch, p. 471 for the Upper Bavaria-Swabia district.
5. ↑ Reibel, p. 246 with reference to the order 9/43 of the Reich Treasurer of the NSDAP of March 20, 1943.
6. ↑ Law for the Liberation from National Socialism and Militarism of March 5, 1946 with implementation regulations, forms, instructions for the evaluators of the registration forms and the ranking list in multicolored reproduction, on official order and with notes and subject index provided by Erich Schullze . Third, revised and supplemented edition, containing the 2nd amendment law, the homecoming amnesty and the like. a., Biederstein Verlag, Munich 1948, p. 101.
7. ↑ So z. B. in Argentina . See Sebastian Schoepp : Das Argentinisches Tageblatt as a form of emigration 1933–1945 . In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte , 43rd vol. (1995) H. 1, pp. 75–113, here p. 85.
8. ^ Lothar Kettenacker : National Socialist Volkstumsppolitik in Alsace . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1973, pp. 207ff.
9. ↑ Law for the Liberation from National Socialism and Militarism of March 5, 1946 , p. 101.