Reichsfuhrer School

Reichsführererschulen (RFS) were training centers of the NSDAP , which were supposed to train the "young leaders" of the NS movement. Every political leader of the NSDAP had to have successfully completed a Reichsführer-school.

history

Reichsführerinnenschule of the Association of German Girls in Potsdam (August 1935)

Tyr rune as a loyalty badge for successful graduates

The NSDAP established the Reichsfuhrer Schools, initially referred to only as “Führer Schools” , as training centers for the “Political Leaders” and the “Führer Corps” of the “NS Combat Associations”: SA, SS and Hitler Youth.

Later, the leadership schools were reorganized as Reichsführer schools and divided into four divisions:

1. Reichsführer school (of the NSDAP and the DAF 1933-1936, the SD 1936-1945) Bernau near Berlin , federal school of the General German Trade Union Federation
2. State driving schools Paulinum in Hirschberg , Lobeda ( Thuringia ), Königswinter ( Rhineland ), Saßnitz ( Rügen ) and Plassenburg ( Kulmbach )
3. Gaufführer schools , which existed in almost all political districts of the NSDAP
4. Special schools such as the "State School of the National Socialist Company Cell Organization "

The training at the Reichsfuhrer Schools usually took place in four-week courses, in which around 50 to 80 people took part. The group of participants consisted of specially selected representatives from individual rank groups. The courses should therefore not only increase the quality of the SA leadership, but also strengthen their political loyalty. The successful graduates were awarded the Tyr rune after attending school .

In 1945 the Reichsführer-schools were banned and dissolved as part of the NSDAP.

Reichsfuhrer School of the SA

Adolf Hitler with SA participants in the first course of the Reichsfuhrer School (June 1931)

The first Reichsführer school was opened on June 15, 1931 in Munich . It should ensure systematic training for the SA leadership.

The institution, headed by SA group leader Kurt Kühme , focused on the ideological training of the course participants, who mostly spent four weeks here at the expense of the Reich leadership. Prominent NSDAP members often acted as teachers . Organizational, practical and legal issues were explained in the classroom. There was also a sports program and trips to Italy .

The building of the SA Reichsfuhrer School was located at Briennerstrasse 44 in Munich. Due to the emergency ordinance of April 13, 1932, the school was closed by the Munich City Police on April 15, 1932 , after it had been searched the day before. After the SA was re-admitted, she resumed teaching.

Other Reichsführer schools

Welcome at the Reichsführer school of the DRK in Groß Schulzendorf by Ernst-Robert Grawitz

In the middle and late 1930s, further Reichsführer-Schools were founded, which exclusively focus on the training of their own offspring or that specifically take care of special training:

1. SS-Führersportschule Mihla on the Werra
2. RAD Leadership School Spandau
3. Reichsführer school of the National Socialist People's Welfare in Falkensee
4. Gau School I for Halle-Merseburg in Seeburg Castle
5. Reichsführer school of the German Red Cross in Groß Schulzendorf
6. Reichsführerinnenschule 3 of the BDM in Boyden , East Prussia

See also

• Tyr rune (medal)
• SS Junker School
• Driving schools of the SS, the SD and the security police
• Gauführerschule

literature

• FA Brockhaus: The New Brockhaus. Allbuch in four volumes and an atlas , second volume F – K, Leipzig 1938, p. 135.
• Christian Zentner and Friedemann Needy : The Great Lexicon of the Third Reich , Südwest-Verlag 1985, p. 476.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Training location for mass murder on www.bpb.de.

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