Paul Meier-Benneckenstein

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Paul Meier-Benneckenstein (born May 21, 1894 in Kröslin ; † January 20, 1971 in Schleswig ) was a German pedagogue, political scientist and editor of important series of publications under National Socialism . From 1933 to 1940 he was President of the German University of Politics (DHfP) in Berlin.

Life

Paul Meier, who worked as a primary school teacher in Benneckenstein , joined the NSDAP on September 5, 1927 ( membership number 66,967). Until 1932 he worked as a Gau and Reich speaker of the National Socialist "movement" and was thus considered an " old fighter "; later he received the golden party badge of the NSDAP . Because of agitation for the NSDAP, after repeated warnings by the Erfurt District President, he was dismissed from the Prussian school service in December 1930 by decision of the Erfurt Disciplinary Court without pension claims.

After the seizure of power, Meier was appointed by Joseph Goebbels on April 1, 1933 as a consultant in the Ministry of Propaganda and was promoted to government councilor . In May 1933 he took over the provisional management of the German University of Politics (DHfP) in Berlin as the successor to Ernst Jäckh , and in November 1933 he became president of the university. With his appointment - since then he has called himself Meier-Benneckenstein - the synchronization went hand in hand and the university expanded through, among other things, more training seminars. In 1937 it became the immediate Reichsanstalt.

In conjunction with Wilhelm Ziegler and Paul Ritterbusch , Meier-Benneckenstein published the Zeitschrift für Politik (ZfP) at Carl Heymanns Verlag from 1933 to 1940 , the oldest German-language political science journal. From 1940 it received the note: "Published by the German Institute for External Studies" (DAWI).

In 1940 the university was absorbed into the newly founded Faculty of Foreign Studies at Berlin University, which was housed in the Schinkel Building Academy until 1945. The faculty was now under the direction of Franz Six . For Meier-Benneckenstein, who did not have a university degree, there was no further use. He was later drafted into the Wehrmacht, became a prisoner of war and lived in Schleswig-Holstein after the war.

Quotes

Meier-Benneckenstein described in his foreword to Joseph Goebbels ' Fascism and its practical results. the program for the institute:

"[We want] to convey understanding for the Adolf Hitler government ... The writings of the DHfP are intended to serve the further penetration of the German people with National Socialist ideas and education in the spirit of the national community ."

- Paul Meier-Benneckenstein, 1943

A circular, which called on all administrative departments to cooperate, clarifies the multifaceted purpose of the Gau series:

"The party comrade, President Paul Meier-Beneckenstein [sic!] Publishes a series of publications under the title 'Die Deutschen Gaue' in the publishing house Junker und Dünnhaupt, in which most of the German districts have already published books. The purpose of this series of publications is to give the students of the Hochschule für Politik an overview of the German districts and, at the same time, by spreading the publications, to give all national comrades an idea of ​​the building work carried out by the party. "

- The Thuringian Gaupresseamtsleiter on September 17, 1940.

Works as editor

(Except for the Zeitschrift für Politik , all series were published by the Junker and Dünnhaupt Berlin publishers.)

  • The German Gaue since the seizure of power :
    • Volume Munich-Upper Bavaria , 1941 (by Alois Roßmaier).
    • Band Bayerische Ostmark , 1940.
    • Band Schwaben , announced for 1941 (by Heiner Seybold).
  • Documents of German politics , partly published. with Franz Six and arr. by Hans Volz and Axel Friedrichs From volume 8 with the addition: "The Empire of Adolf Hitler". In 1942 a second row begins with the addition: Row: The time of the World War and the Weimar Republic 1914–1933. Of this, however, only vol. 3 (November Revolution and Versailles 1918–1919) appears in 2 volumes. - Volume 9 with the documents for 1941 was already in print in 1943, but could no longer be delivered.
    • Volume 1: The National Socialist Revolution 1933 , 1935.
    • Volume 2: The structure of the German leadership state: the year 1934 , 1936.
    • Volume 3: Germany's Way to Freedom 1935 , 1937.
    • Volume 4: Germany's rise to a great power , 1937.
    • Volume 5: From a great power to a world power , 1938.
    • Volume 6: Greater Germany 1938 . 2 parts, 1939.
    • Volume 7: The Becoming of the Reich 1939 . 2 parts, 1940.
    • Volume 8: The Struggle Against the West 1940 . 2 parts, 1943.
  • Writings of the German University of Politics. Idea and shape of National Socialism , from 1934 (up to No. 11/1934 without specifying the sub-series 1. - Main title from 33.1938: Writings of the University of Politics / 1. - Later editions of individual volumes, 49 / 50.1940 and from 52.1940 udT: Publications for Politics and Foreign Studies)
  • The British Empire in world politics
  • The Third Reich under construction . Overviews and performance reports:
    • Volume 1: Basic Issues in German Politics , 1939.
    • Volume 2: The organizational structure , part 1 (tab., Graph. Darst., Kt. Sketch), 1939.
    • Volume 3: The organizational structure , part 2: Wehrhaftes Volk, 1939.
    • Volume 4: The organizational structure , part 3: State and administration, 1939.
    • Volume 5: The Organizational Structure , Part 4: Party and State, 1941.
    • Volume 6: The organizational structure , part 5: Economy and work, 1942.

The volumes in this series were placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone .

Fonts

Responsible for the content:

  • Liberation of the proletariat - to the last stand! , Munich approx. 1932, 1933.

Others:

  • National Socialist literature from 1919 to January 1, 1934 . With prefaces by Arthur Görlitzer and Paul Meier-Benneckenstein (= research reports on the science of National Socialism, Issue 1) Berlin 1934.

Secondary literature

  • Antonio Missiroli: The German University of Politics , Sankt Augustin 1988.
  • Wilhelm Bleek : History of Political Science in Germany , Munich 2001.
  • Rainer Eisfeld : Expatriated and yet tanned. German political science 1920–1945 , Baden-Baden 1991.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to a note in the Vossische Zeitung, No. 589, December 14, 1930. Meier's Vice-Rector Dietrich Klagges was sentenced to dismissal for the same reason .
  2. ^ Rainer Eisfeld: Expatriated and yet tanned: German Political Science 1920–1945 , Baden-Baden 1991, p. 19, 107.
  3. ^ Wilhelm Bleek: History of Political Science in Germany, Munich 2001, p. 203.
  4. ↑ Joseph Goebbels: The Fascism and its Practical Results , Berlin 1934, Series: Schriften der DHfP, Heft 1, S. 5.
  5. ↑ Thuringian Main State Archive Weimar, State Nutrition Office, Section B, No. 92, Bl. 144r.
  6. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-g.html
  7. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit.html
  8. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-p.html
  9. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-v.html
  10. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-w.html

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personal data
SURNAME Meier-Benneckenstein, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Kröslin
DATE OF DEATH 20th January 1971
Place of death Schleswig