Toni Winkelnkemper

Anton Winkelnkemper

Anton "Toni" Winkelnkemper (born October 18, 1905 in Wiedenbrück , † February 21, 1968 in Mexico City ) was a German lawyer, SS standard leader and member of the Reichstag of the NSDAP .

Live and act

Winkelnkemper, younger brother of the future Lord Mayor of Cologne, Peter Winkelnkemper , attended elementary school and then completed a three-year commercial training course. After attending the commercial college in Bielefeld and the acquisition of Obersekundareife in Duisburg he put as External 1929 at the secondary school in Krefeld the High School from. He then studied law and political science in Bonn and Cologne for eight semesters , interrupted by stays abroad. According to his own statements, he had to break off his studies because of his political activities for the NSDAP, of which he had been a member since March 1930 ( membership number 232.248): He was sentenced to several prison terms. The doctorate to Dr. jur. he finally made up for it in 1936.

In October 1930, Winkelnkemper was appointed Gauleiter of the Rhineland, Robert Ley, to the Gau Propaganda Leader, after he had been a Gau speaker since July 1930. In July 1933, Joseph Goebbels appointed Winkelnkemper as head of the Rhineland regional office of the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda . In 1936, Walther Darré appointed Winkelnkemper to the state council of farmers of the Rhine Province. From August 1936, Winkelnkemper was Gauamtsleiter in Cologne. On May 1, 1937, he was appointed director of the Reichsender Köln, a position he held until 1941. At the same time he was also appointed Reich speaker of the NSDAP.

Since March 5, 1933 he was also a member of the Prussian state parliament . On March 12, 1933, he was also a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Rhine Province . From November 1933, Winkelnkemper was a member of the Reichstag as a member.

Winkelnkemper became a member of the SS in 1938 (SS-No. 310.379) and was promoted to SS-Standartenführer at the beginning of June 1939 .

At the end of 1940, after having served in the war during the Second World War from 1939, Winkelnkemper was appointed director of the German shortwave transmitter as the successor to Adolf Raskin, who had died in a plane crash in November 1940 . In addition, from April 21, 1941, he was the foreign director of Großdeutscher Rundfunk , a position he performed to Joseph Goebbels' satisfaction.

After the war ended, Winkelnkemper was arrested by members of the US Army on May 14, 1945 and interned for about two years. He was brought to the United States in May 1947 without having to face an arbitration panel and was used in Boston as a witness in the trial of Robert Best and Douglas Chandler , who were accused of high treason. Winkelnkemper is said to have also worked for the US secret service.

Fonts

• The criminal protection of the NSDAP, its structures, uniforms, badges and symbols , dissertation Bonn 1936.
• The major attack on Cologne. An example , Berlin 1944.

literature

• 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 .
• Willi A. Boelcke (Ed.): War Propaganda 1939–1941. Secret ministerial conferences in the Reich Propaganda Ministry. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1966.

Web links

• Toni Winkelnkemper in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Literature by and about Toni Winkelnkemper in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Death Record No. 192 Federal District
2. ↑ ^{a b} Willi A. Boelcke (Ed.): War Propaganda 1939–1941. Secret Ministerial Conferences in the Reich Propaganda Ministry , 1966, p. 94f
3. ↑ tab Winkelnkemper, Anton in State Archives Ludwigsburg , inventory EL 904/2 (American Intern index) No. 76,218th
4. ↑ Anton Winkelnkemper at http://www1.wdr.de
5. ^ Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 602.