Reinhold Muchow

Reinhold Muchow (* 21st December 1905 in Berlin , † 12 September 1933 in Bacharach ) was NS - social policy .

Life

The son of a typesetter attended elementary school and then graduated from a commercial college. In parallel to his training, Muchow was a guest student at Berlin University and was involved as a member of the DHV .

As a teenager, Muchow joined the Bund Oberland and the German Social Party of Richard Kunzes . In December 1925 he joined the NSDAP and shortly afterwards became deputy head of section Walter Schuhmann and head of propaganda and organization in Neukölln . In the period from July 1926 to May 1927 he sent detailed reports on the activities of the NSDAP in Berlin to other districts of his party, which have been preserved and are available on the Internet (see web links). Reinhold Muchow studied the cell organization of the KPD in Neukölln and transferred it to his section. The Berlin-Brandenburg NSDAP Gauleiter Joseph Goebbels recognized the organizational talent of the young activist and on July 1, 1928 appointed the Gau Berlin's head of organization . Muchow's “Neukölln Model” thus became the blueprint for the reorganization of the Berlin party organization, after which the NSDAP was reorganized across the Reich in autumn 1932.

As an "anti-capitalist party leftist", Reinhold Muchow devoted himself entirely to winning over the workers for the Nazi movement. In 1930 he therefore converted Johannes Engel's badly organized secretariat for workers' affairs , with few members, into the NSBO , of which Muchow also became head of organization. In January 1931 Goebbels' right-hand man switched to the Reichsorganisationsleitung in Munich, where he became the deputy of his former section leader Walter Schuhmann as the current head of the Reichsbetriebszelleorganization .

In 1931 he founded the company cell magazine Arbeitertum before he was appointed organizational manager of the DAF in 1933 .

Muchow sat on the Central Committee for Preparing the Boycott of Jewish Businesses on April 1, 1933 and, like Walter Schuhmann and Robert Ley , was also involved in planning the violent break-up of the German trade unions on May 2, 1933.

On September 12, 1933 Reinhold Muchow died in Bacharach am Rhein under mysterious circumstances. Allegedly he fell victim to an accidentally fired shot by his friend and Neukölln SA storm leader Willi Mähling at a meeting of “old fighters”. This is said to have killed himself with "two shots" in the head. The case was never cleared up. The variant that is occasionally rumored that Muchow was killed in a car accident most likely indicates attempts to cover up by the party.

Muchow was buried in the Luisenstadt cemetery in Berlin-Kreuzberg . The tomb has not been preserved.

literature

• Bernd Kessinger: The National Socialists in Berlin-Neukölln 1925–1933, Past Publishing, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86408-155-2
• Hermann Weiß (Ed.): Biographical Lexicon for the Third Reich . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-10-091052-4 .

Footnotes

1. ^ Until recently, Muchow's membership in the German Socialist Party was accepted.
2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 81.

Web links

• Literature by and about Reinhold Muchow in the catalog of the German National Library
• Institute for Contemporary History: The Beginnings of the Berlin NSdAP 1926/27 Contemporary "Situation Reports" from the NSdAP by Reinhold Muchow, commented by Martin Broszat - Quarterly Issues for Contemporary History , Volume 8, Issue 1 (1960) (PDF)