Rudi Peuckert

Rudolf Werner Peuckert

Rudolf "Rudi" Werner Peuckert (born August 18, 1908 in Wiebelsdorf , † October 3, 1946 in Dachau ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and SS leader .

Live and act

Rudi Peuckert was born the son of a farmer. After attending the elementary school in Wöhlsdorf and the secondary school in Zeulenroda and Neustadt / Orla , he was trained at the agricultural school in Altenburg from 1923 to 1925 . He then supplemented his training with practical agricultural work in Thuringia and Schleswig-Holstein. In 1928 he took over his father's farm in Wiebelsdorf.

In 1926 Peuckert joined the NSDAP for the first time, which he temporarily left in 1927 at the request of his parents, in order to rejoin it on January 1, 1928 ( membership number 73.255). In the party he successively took over functionaries as local group leader in Wiebelsdorf (January to May 1930), local group leader in Auma (April 1930 to 1931), as district leader of the Auma-Weida district (March 10, 1930) and district leader of the Gera-Land district. In addition, there were tasks as a Gau speaker and as imperial speaker for the party. According to his own statements, Peuckert spoke in over 2000 public meetings across Germany.

In 1932 Peuckert became a member of the Thuringian state parliament. In September of the same year he took over the office of an agricultural regional adviser for the Thuringia regional government of the NSDAP.

After the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933, Peuckert became 1st Chairman of the Thuringian Land Association and President of the Thuringian Main Chamber of Agriculture in April . In June 1933 he was appointed regional farmers' leader. In addition, he was appointed to the Thuringian State Council in October 1933 and from August 1935 was entrusted with the office of Gauamtsleiter of the Office for Agricultural Policy of the Gaus Thuringia in the NSDAP.

On June 10, 1933, Peuckert joined the SS. From November 1933 until the end of the Nazi regime in the spring of 1945, Peuckert sat in the Reichstag as a member of the NSDAP for constituency 12 (Thuringia) .

On December 15, 1934, Peuckert married Elisabeth Fiedler (born September 2, 1909 in Stockhausen). The marriage resulted in at least one child.

On January 30, 1937, Peuckert was promoted to SS-Oberführer in the staff of the Race and Settlement Main Office of the Reichsführer SS.

During the Second World War , Peuckert initially served briefly (February to March 13, 1940) as head of the working committee for peasantry in the Reich Youth Leadership . On March 13, 1940, he was appointed head of the office and acting head of the rural and eastern part of the country. As an employee of Fritz Sauckel , the Reich plenipotentiary for labor, Peuckert managed the procurement of labor for agriculture. From January 1943, Peuckert was head of the Labor Deployment in Agriculture and War Food Industry in the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories . In February 1943 Peuckert took over the management of the chief group work in the economic staff east and carried the service title war administration chief . In 1943 he became the "Commissioner for Labor Deployment for the Occupied Soviet Territories".

On May 18, 1945, Peuckert was arrested by US soldiers. In October 1946 he committed suicide in Allied custody in the Dachau internment camp .

literature

Christian Gerlach : Calculated murders. The German economic and extermination policy in Belarus 1941 to 1944. Hamburger Edition , Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-930908-54-9 .
Walther Tröge: Rudi Peuckert (= The ancestors of German farmers' leaders, Volume 24), Berlin 1936.
Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

Web links

Rudi Peuckert in the database of members of the Reichstag
Short biography - project "Officials of National Socialist Reich Ministries"

Individual evidence

^ Bernhard Post: Thuringia Handbook. Territory, constitution, parliament, government and administration in Thuringia 1920 to 1995. Böhlau, Weimar 1999, p. 617.
^ ^A ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Rudi Peuckert - Officials of National Socialist Reich Ministries . In: Officials of National Socialist Reich Ministries . February 6, 2018 ( ns-reichsministerien.de [accessed March 29, 2018]).
^ Tröge, Peuckert (1936), p. 83.
^ Christian Gerlach: Calculated murders. The German economic and extermination policy in Belarus 1941 to 1944. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 1999, p. 431 FN 352 u. P. 464 FN 92.
^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 457.

personal data
SURNAME	Peuckert, Rudi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Peuckert, Rudolf Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	August 18, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wiebelsdorf
DATE OF DEATH	October 3, 1946
Place of death	Dachau

[1] Bernhard Post: Thuringia Handbook. Territory, constitution, parliament, government and administration in Thuringia 1920 to 1995. Böhlau, Weimar 1999, p. 617.

[:0-2] A ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Rudi Peuckert - Officials of National Socialist Reich Ministries . In: Officials of National Socialist Reich Ministries . February 6, 2018 ( ns-reichsministerien.de [accessed March 29, 2018]).

[3] Tröge, Peuckert (1936), p. 83.

[4] Christian Gerlach: Calculated murders. The German economic and extermination policy in Belarus 1941 to 1944. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 1999, p. 431 FN 352 u. P. 464 FN 92.

[5] Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 457.