Reinhard Sunkel

Reinhard Sunkel (born February 9, 1900 in Mainz , † May 8, 1945 in Libau ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

Life

After attending a high school, the officer's son Sunkel joined the Royal Prussian Cadet Corps in Berlin-Lichterfelde , where he aspired to become an officer. Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty (reduction of troop strength) he had to say goodbye. In 1919 he became a member of the Freikorps and joined the Landjäger Corps Märker , with whom he took part in the street fights in Berlin , Erfurt and Halle (Saale) . Later he was a member of the Freikorps Graf Dohna as an ensign . In 1920 he made up his Abitur. After a short stay abroad, he studied history at the universities in Greifswald , Kiel and Erlangen .

Sunkel joined the NSDAP in 1922 and took part in the 1923 Hitler putsch . After the NSDAP was banned, he rejoined the party in 1925. Together with Joachim Haupt , he founded the National Socialist German Student Union (NSDStB) in Kiel in the mid-1920s , where he acted as managing director and editor of the Schleswig-Holstein University Gazette published by the board of the “Kiel Student Union” . He was a member of the NSDStB university group in Kiel from 1927 to 1928 and then worked in the same function in Erlangen. In 1930 he became district leader of the NSDStB in Berlin and at the same time NSDStB organization leader and deputy to Baldur von Schirach . Sunkel strictly refused to hold office. Together with Ernst Anrich , Sunkel became the leader of an internal NSDStB rebellion against Schirach. He then sent a corresponding memorandum to Adolf Hitler . The dispute ended with the victory of Schirach, who was able to fall back on Hitler's support in this conflict. In March 1931, Sunkel was expelled from the NS student union.

Sunkel became NSDAP local group leader Kiel in 1931 and NSDAP district leader Kiel-Bordesholm in 1932. In 1932 he was elected to the Prussian Landtag , to which he belonged until the corporation was dissolved in October 1933.

Sunkel was Ministerialrat in the Prussian Ministry for Science, Art and Public Education since 1933 and was appointed Ministerialdirektor after the establishment of the Reich Ministry for Science, Education and Public Education in 1934. From 1933 to April 1936 he was Bernhard Rust's personal assistant ( adjutant ) . In addition, he was Deputy Inspector of the NPEA (State Administration of the National Political Education Institutions in Prussia) until 1936 . His planned change to the position of curator at Berlin University was rejected by Hitler. Its later re-use in public service failed after it was discovered that Sunkel had a Jewish great-grandmother. Thereupon he resigned from the civil service in 1937 and was given retirement.

Sunkel rose to the position of Oberführer in the SA in 1936. After the beginning of the Second World War he volunteered for the Wehrmacht , where he reached the rank of first lieutenant . On May 8, 1945, he committed suicide in Libau suicide .

literature

• Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 172.
• Ernst Kienast (Ed.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag , edition for the 5th electoral period, Berlin 1933, p. 389.
• Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. Completely revised edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 .

Web links

Photo by Reinhard Sunkel

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Ernst Klee: The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. Completely revised edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, p. 544.
2. ^ Anselm Faust, The National Socialist Student Union, Düsseldorf 1973, vol. 1, p. 153 ff.