Theodor Adrian von Renteln

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Theodor Adrian von Renteln

Theodor Adrian von Renteln (Russian Fyodor Fjodorowitsch von Renteln , born September 15, 1897 in Chodzy (Senny district, Mogilew governorate ), Russia (now Belarus ); † unknown ) was a German journalist, politician ( NSDAP ) and economic functionary. For the NSDAP, he mainly worked on issues relating to medium-sized businesses, especially in handicrafts, in trade and in cooperative forms of organization. In 1931/32 he was briefly leader of the Hitler Youth . During the Second World War , as Commissioner General in Lithuania on the part of the civil administration, he was one of the main people responsible for the murder of Lithuanian Jews.

Life

Renteln was of Baltic German origin and first attended a preparatory school in Dannenberg from 1905 to 1908, and later also a German city high school in Riga (from 1908 to 1916, last year evacuated to Dorpat ). In July 1916 he entered the Alexander Lyceum in Saint Petersburg , but was drafted into military service in October of the same year. After completing the cavalry officers' school of Tsar Nikolai I in Petersburg, von Renteln was promoted to the reserve cornet in October 1917 and assigned to the 11th Hussar Regiment "Isjum". In the last months of this year the regiment was stationed in Ukraine. In the spring of 1918 he joined the Ukrainian Hetman Army , where he served as a substitute officer in the staff of Army Group Eichhorn-Kiev .

In January 1919 von Renteln came to Germany. Until September 1919 he was employed in the administration of the Russian prisoner-of-war camp in Quedlinburg , then spent several months in the Helmstedt refugee camp and in the Baltenheim (Doberan Castle). From 1920 to 1924 von Renteln studied economics and law in Berlin and Rostock . In February 1924, he was with a thesis on the currency of Latvia Dr. rer. pole. PhD .

Between 1924 and 1929 von Renteln worked as a coffee house musician and freelance journalist. In 1928 he headed the university group in Berlin of the NS student union and joined the NSDAP ( membership number 109.184) and the SA on January 1, 1929 . In November 1929 he founded the National Socialist Student Union (NSS), which had previously only existed in individual local associations since 1927, as a nationwide organization and headed it as Reichsführer until June 16, 1932. At the same time he was employed as an economic consultant in the Reich leadership of the NSDAP in Munich.

On November 1, 1931, von Renteln temporarily succeeded Kurt Gruber as Reichsführer of the Hitler Youth until Baldur von Schirach took over this office on June 16, 1932. From April 1931 to 1933 von Renteln was also a full-time consultant for economic issues in the Reich leadership of the NSDAP and head of the department for economic policy in the main department IV (economy) of the Reich organizational leadership of the NSDAP .

In 1932 he became a member of the Reichstag , which he was to belong to until 1945 . From 1932 to 1933 he was the leader of the "NS- Kampfbundes für den Gewerblichen Mittelstand ". On May 3, 1933, he was elected by the Reich Association of German Industry (RDI) as the new chairman. From May 1933 he was the leader of the Reichsstandes des Deutschen Handwerks and the Reichsstandes des Deutschen Handels as well as from June 1933 to 1935 President of the Industry and Trade Day . From 1933 to 1935 he was chief officer in the Reich leadership of the NSDAP and president of the National Socialist Crafts, Trade and Industry Organization (NS-HAGO), a division of the NSDAP (1933–1935), then part of the German Labor Front (DAF). In this function, von Renteln was instrumental in organizing the campaigns against the Jewish department stores in the German Reich .

In June 1935 von Renteln was appointed head of the German Labor Front by Robert Ley and since October 1935 has been chairman of the DAF's Supreme Court of Honor and Disciplinary Court, whose task it was to regulate the complaint process within the organization and to exclude "anti-social elements" from it remove. At the same time, he was in charge of the main trade and craft area in the DAF central office. In March 1935 Bernhard Rust appointed him head of the Institute for Applied Economics at the University of Leipzig , where in 1936 he also became honorary professor. From 1939 von Renteln was also a member of the National Socialist Academy for German Law . In 1940 he became "Head of Trade and Crafts in the Reich leadership of the NSDAP".

During the Second World War he became General Commissioner for Lithuania in the summer of 1941 in the so-called Reichskommissariat Ostland . As such, on the part of the civil administration, he was primarily responsible for the murder of the Lithuanian Jews during the German occupation.

In 1946, von Renteln is said to have been sentenced to death by a Soviet military tribunal in the Soviet Union and executed. According to another account (Dieckmann, 1997) he may have managed to escape to South America .

Fonts

  • with Herbert von Obwurzer : Self-sufficiency (autarky) in the Third Reich. National Liberation of Freedom, Berlin 1933.
  • The craft in the National Socialist economic development. , o. O. 1933.
  • Merchant - not merchant! . Bartholdy & Klein, Berlin (1934).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Curriculum vitae (appendix to the inaugural dissertation 1924)
  2. ↑ See the entries by Theodor Adrian von Renteln in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ↑ a b Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 , p. 492.
  4. ↑ Historical Lexicon of Bavaria
  5. ↑ Christoph Dieckmann: Considerations on German occupation in Eastern Europe 1941-1944: the example of Lithuania. In: Annaberger Annalen. 5 (1997), pp. 41f.
personal data
SURNAME Renteln, Theodor Adrian von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German functionary and politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Chodzy (Senny County, Mogilev Governorate ), Russia (now Belarus )
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century