Thilo von Trotha (Nazi functionary)

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From left to right: William Randolph Hearst , Alfred Rosenberg , Karl Bömer , Trotha , Rosenbergs Adjutant (1934)

Thilo Ernst Hans Berndt von Trotha (born April 12, 1904 in Wilhelmshaven ; † February 24, 1938 with Friesack ) was an intellectual and bureaucrat who held leading positions in the foreign policy office of the NSDAP during the Nazi era as personal adjutant to the party ideologist Alfred Rosenberg has worked.

Life

Thilo von Trotha had his family roots in the Baltic States . As a child he witnessed the First World War . After graduating from high school, he began studying music . In 1929 he came to Munich , where he wrote music and theater reviews for the Völkischer Beobachter . In 1930 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 237.699). In 1932 at the latest, Trotha became Rosenberg's private secretary.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he began to work for Rosenberg in the Foreign Policy Office of the NSDAP (APA). From then on, Trotha took over the management of the foreign policy archive and the "North" section of the APA. In addition, he was the chief editor of the National Socialist monthly issue . In 1934 he published the book Die Völkische Kunst , in which he wrote, among other things: “Heroic objectivity, linked to a Nordic ideal of beauty, will be the foundation of a new age in the fine arts.” From 1934 until his death, Thilo von Trotha also directed the secretariat ( Rosenberg office ). His job as private secretary was to process all of Rosenberg's correspondence as head of the APA, as Reichsführer of the Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur (KfdK) and as chief editor of the “ Völkischer Beobachter ” (VB).

Trotha was also a liaison to the Nordic Society affiliated with the APA .

On February 24, 1938, Thilo von Trotha was killed in a car accident near Friesack. After his death, Werner Koeppen became von Rosenberg's new adjutant.

literature

  • Reinhard Bollmus: The Rosenberg Office and its opponents . Studies on the power struggle in the National Socialist system of rule. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1970, DNB (2nd edition, Munich / Oldenbourg 2006, ISBN 3-486-54501-9 .)
  • Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Reinhard Bollmus: The office of Rosenberg and its opponents . Studies on the power struggle in the National Socialist system of rule, Munich 1970, p. 273.
  2. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 620.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Ernst Piper : Alfred Rosenberg . Hitler's chief ideologist, Munich 2005, p. 291, ISBN 3-89667-148-0 .
  4. ↑ Reinhard Bollmus: The office of Rosenberg and its opponents . Studies on the power struggle in the National Socialist system of rule, Munich 1970, p. 263.
  5. ^ Quotation from Ernst Klee: Das Kulturlexikon zum Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 620.
  6. ^ Federal Archives: Findmittelinfo Alfred Rosenberg . Berlin 2008. Findmittelinfo  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bundesarchiv.de  
personal data
SURNAME Trotha, Thilo von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trotha, Thilo Ernst Hans Berndt from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German National Socialist bureaucrat
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilhelmshaven
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1938
Place of death Friesack