Reich Board of Trustees for Youth Enhancement

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The Reich Board of Trustees for Youth Enhancement was an organization founded on September 13, 1932 for military education of German youth with the task of bringing together the various military associations for joint and uniform work. On July 1, 1933, the board of trustees was transferred to the SA .

history

The creation of this organization was due, among other things, to efforts by General Wilhelm Groener , who in a letter to Reich Chancellor Heinrich Brüning dated October 18, 1930, called for comprehensive measures to "train young people physically in the spirit of defense". On April 4, 1931, General Kurt von Schleicher expressed himself in an extensive memorandum entitled “Military detention of the youth” in the same way and submitted detailed proposals on structure, financing and tasks.

There was also a political idea behind it: "Schleicher realized the long-ventured plans to bring young people back to military service and, so to speak, to bring the formations of the so-called 'military associations' under control in a cold, carefully camouflaged way".

The decree "on the physical training of the youth" of the Reich President Paul von Hindenburg determined the tasks of the board of trustees: "The steeling of the body, the education of the youth for discipline, orderliness and comradeship and the willingness to make sacrifices for the whole". The chairman was the Reich Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Freiherr von Gayl , the executive president was the retired general. D. Edwin von Stülpnagel . After his death in 1933, he became a major in the Reichswehr. D. Georg von Neufville appointed as Executive President of the Board of Trustees.

The Board of Trustees set up fifteen schools for infantry and one school for naval training. The training was completed in three-week courses and numerous special courses under the direction of former officers and NCOs. The paramilitary associations SA , the Stahlhelm , Reichsbanner , Jungdeutscher Orden , Kyffhäuserbund , Deutscher Officiersbund , Bismarckjugend and others participated in the board of trustees . a.

The courses were free of charge and the participants received free board and lodging. From July 1932 to January 1933, the Board of Trustees received around 1 million Reichsmarks .

After the National Socialists seized power and the military associations were incorporated into the SA, the board of trustees was transferred to the newly created SA department head of training ( Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger ). This was dissolved again in early 1935.
According to another reading, the board of trustees was dissolved by the "[...] 'Chief of Training' of the SA, SA group leader Jüttner [...]."

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Görlitz: Strategy of the Defensive - Model , Limes-Verlag, Wiesbaden and Munich 1982, ISBN 3-8090-2071-0 , p. 44. For this task, Edwin von Stülpnagel had, in addition to other active officers, the future General Field Marshal, who was then a major , Walter Model , selected. The national-conservative associations up to the democratic-socialist 'Reichsbanner' showed interest. "The greatest concern was caused by the 400,000 men in the 'Sturmabteilung' (SA) and 'Schutzstaffeln' (SS) Hitler's ..." (Görlitz, p. 45.)
  2. ↑ Files of the Reich Chancellery , Das Kabinett von Papen, Volume 2, Documents No. 132, Ministerial Meeting of September 12, 1932, 11 a.m., Off the agenda: Appointment of a Reich Board of Trustees for Youth Enhancement
  3. ↑ Görlitz: Model , p. 48 .: The author interprets the following transfer of Models to East Prussia as part of the endeavor "to remove particularly exposed officers from Berlin [...] in higher command posts in the Reichswehr [...] as Precaution. "

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