Reinhold Schulze

Reinhold Schulze (born October 28, 1905 in Bremen , † December 30, 1993 in Bonn ) was a German engineer, politician, publicist and National Socialist functionary.

Life

Reinhold Schulze was born the son of an engineer and was baptized as a Protestant. From 1922 he belonged to the Young National Federation . From 1925 to 1930 he studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich . After completing this course as a graduate engineer , he studied economics in Rostock and Hamburg from 1930 to 1931 . As early as 1928 he had joined the National Socialist German Student Union (NSDStB). In 1929 he joined the NSDAP . In 1930 he became district leader north of the NSDStB. He held this office until 1933. In 1931 Schulze was active in the AStA at the University of Hamburg. From June 1931 to 1933 he acted as District Leader II of the German Student Union responsible for Northern Germany . From November 1932 to March 1933 he was a member of the Reichstag after he was nominated by the NSDAP as a national election proposal. On the list of candidates, he described himself as a graduate engineer based in Altona - Großflottbek .

In 1933 Schulze joined the SA and became head of department at the Reichs-SA-Hochschulamt. In May 1933 he appeared as a speaker at the book burning staged in Hamburg . In 1934 Schulze became SA Obersturmbannführer. After brief activity as a draftsman at ADAC , he became head of the border and foreign office of the Reich Youth Leadership from July 1935 .

In the Reichstag election on March 29, 1936, Reinhold Schulze ran again for the NSDAP. In his function as head of the office of RJF and Berlin-Wilmersdorf , Ruhrstrasse 18, he did not receive a mandate.

In 1939 he was finally appointed Obergebietsführer of the Hitler Youth . From 1940 to 1945 he worked as a cultural advisor at the German embassy in Japan .

He was interned in the United States by February 1947. Schulze then settled in Hamburg as an engineer and became a member of the FDP in 1952 . Since 1956 he has acted as a foreign policy advisor in the federal office of the FDP. In 1959 he moved to the then newly established party-affiliated Friedrich Naumann Foundation , eventually becoming its deputy head. Until 1971 he remained active as head of studies for the foundation. From 1974 to 1989 he was a member of the foundation's advisory board.

literature

• Martin Schumacher (ed.): MdR, the members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism: political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933–1945; a biographical documentation . Edited by Katharina Lübbe and Martin Schumacher in conjunction with Wilhelm Heinz Schröder . Droste, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5162-9 .
• Michael Grüttner : Biographical lexicon on National Socialist science policy . Synchron, research publ. der Authors, Heidelberg 2004 (= Studies on the History of Science and University, Vol. 6), p. 157, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 .
• Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 , S. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 .
• Biographical manual of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Volume 4: p . Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service, edited by: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger, Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-71843-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Reinhold Schulze in the catalog of the German National Library
• Reinhold Schulze in the database of members of the Reichstag