Rudolf Schmeer
Rudolf Jakob Schmeer (born March 16, 1905 in Saarbrücken , † September 11, 1966 in Erlangen ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).
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After attending primary school, Schmeer was trained as an electrician from 1919 to 1923. At the end of 1922 Schmeer worked for the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP).
Due to his involvement in vigilante actions (acts of sabotage, bombings) against the Belgian occupation forces in the Aachen area , Schmeer was sentenced to fifteen years of forced labor by a Belgian court martial on December 29, 1923 in absentia . Due to an amnesty resulting from the London Agreement , the sentence was lifted again in 1924.
From 1926 to 1931 Schmeer, who had rejoined the NSDAP in 1925, served as the leader of the NSDAP in the Aachen administrative district , which he helped to re-establish in 1926. This new local group comprised around 20 men, four of them from the Schmeer family. An early supporter of the NSDAP in Aachen was Max Mehler, the owner of a machine factory. Schmeer was also active there, as was Quirin Jansen , who became mayor of Aachen in 1933. Since 1926 Schmeer also appeared publicly as the party's imperial speaker . In October 1929 he was dismissed from his profession because of this activity. In 1931, criminal proceedings were initiated against Schmeer after he had insulted the incumbent Chancellor Heinrich Brüning in a public meeting.
In 1931 and 1932 Schmeer held the office of deputy Gauleiter of the Cologne-Aachen district. In September 1932 he was appointed head of the NSDAP state inspector West Robert Ley .
From September 1930 to May 1945 Schmeer sat as a member of his party in the Reichstag, in which he represented constituency 20 (Cologne-Aachen). During his time as a member of parliament he voted, among other things, for the passage of the Enabling Act of March 1933, which formed the legal basis for the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship.
On January 1, 1933, Schmeer was appointed Reich Inspector of the NSDAP as the successor to Leys, who had recently taken over from Gregor Strasser as the former head of the Reich organization. Schmeer played a key role in the smashing of the free trade unions on May 2, 1933 and was appointed head of the personnel department to the leadership of the German Labor Front . In the following years he also was responsible for preparing the annual Nuremberg Rallies Rally in Nuremberg, whose organization he coordinated in a specially created site. In 1935 Schmeer was appointed chief service officer of the NSDAP. Furthermore, at this time he held the rank of group leader of the Sturmabteilung (SA) and a Prussian State Council.
In 1938, Schmeer resigned from the leadership of the Reich organization because of differences with Ley. At the instigation of Hermann Göring , with whom Schmeer worked closely in the implementation of the four-year plan, he instead took over the management of Main Department III (Economic System, Trade and Crafts) in the Reich Ministry of Economics . The department was also affiliated with the department for Jewish questions under the direction of Alf Krüger . A witness report for this time describes Schmeer as a "sinister who was not up to his task".
After the already planned appointment of Schmeer as commissioner for the Moscow area did not materialize after the failure of the German offensive against Russia in 1941, he was appointed by Albert Speer in 1942 as the representative for the simplification and standardization of reporting. From 1944 until the end of the war he headed the central reporting office of the Central Office in the Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production .
After the Second World War, Schmeer lived as a merchant in Frauenaurach . Nothing is known about denazification .
Fonts
- Tasks and structure of the German Labor Front , Berlin 1936 (new editions 1938, 1939)
literature
- Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).
- 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 .
- Rüdiger Hachtmann : The economic empire of the German Labor Front 1933-1945 , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen, 2012, ISBN 978-3835310377
Web links
- Literature by and about Rudolf Schmeer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Rudolf Schmeer in the database of members of the Reichstag
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Hermanns: Stadt in Ketten , 1933, p. 334.
- ^ Wolfgang Birkenstock: The NSDAP in Aachen
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmeer, Rudolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schmeer, Rudolf Jakob (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (NSDAP), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 16, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saarbrücken |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 11, 1966 |
| Place of death | gain |