Rudolf Brinkmann (State Secretary)

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Rudolf Brinkmann (born August 28, 1893 in Greene ; † after 1973 ) was a German economist and state secretary under National Socialism .

Life

After completing his school career, Brinkmann began studying law and economics . After the outbreak of the First World War , he joined the German army and served as a field artilleryman. Due to a war injury, he retired from the army in 1916. He then switched to banking and from 1919 worked for the Reichsbank in Göttingen . From 1923 he took over the management of the auditing office of the Reichsbank in Berlin and later worked as an unskilled worker in the directorate of the Reichsbank. Then he was a member of the board of directors of the Reichsbank branch in Hamburg and in 1931 became director of the Reichsbank branch in Aschaffenburg .

time of the nationalsocialism

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , he became a member of the board of directors of the German gold discount bank in spring 1933 and of the Reichsbank in 1937. In the Reich Ministry of Economics in 1934 Brinkmann initially worked as a general advisor under the new Minister Hjalmar Schacht and was promoted to the State Council in 1938. At the beginning of February 1938 he was appointed State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Economics. From 1938 to 1939 he was also on the supervisory board of the Reichswerke AG for ore mining and ironworks "Hermann Göring" . From January 1939, Brinkmann was briefly Vice President of the Reichsbank Board of Directors. Brinkmann became a member of the SS in 1938 (SS no. 308.241) and received the rank of SS Oberführer in November 1938 . It is not certain whether he became a member of the NSDAP in 1939 . Brinkmann was a member of the supervisory boards of VEW and the bank for international settlement .

In mid-February 1939, Brinkmann was given leave of absence due to illness and was put on hold in May 1939 due to the duration of his illness. Brinkmann was apparently suffering from an acute manic-depressive illness , which was described as a "severe nervous breakdown". He was then admitted to a mental hospital in Bonn , where he was housed until the end of the Second World War . Friedrich Landfried followed him as State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Economics and Emil Puhl as Vice President of the Reichsbank .

Fonts

  • Economic policy from the National Socialist source of strength. A collection of selected lectures, speeches and speeches , Jena, Gustav Fischer 1939.

literature

  • Bärbel Holtz, The Protocols of the Prussian State Ministry , Hildesheim: Olms-Weidmann, 2001 (Acta borussica Volume 12 / II) ISBN 3-487-12704-0 , p. 536

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bärbel Holtz, The Protocols of the Prussian State Ministry , p. 536
  2. ↑ a b c d Götz Aly , Federal Archives, Institute for Contemporary History : The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933-1945. Volume 2: German Reich 1938 - August 1939 . Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-58523-0 , p. 435
  3. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 76
  4. ↑ Rudolf Brinkmann at www.dws-xip.pl
  5. ↑ Willi A. Boelcke: Die deutsche Wirtschaft 1930–1945 , Droste, 1983, pp. 191f.
  6. ↑ Johannes Bähr et al.: The Flick Group in the Third Reich . Published by the Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin on behalf of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Oldenbourger Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58683-1 , p. 907
personal data
SURNAME Brinkmann, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and state secretary under National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Greene
DATE OF DEATH after 1973