Walter Langhoff
Walter Langhoff (born December 14, 1883 in Berlin ; † March 7, 1944 ) was a German industrialist and leader of the Allgemeine Deutsche Waffenring .
Life
Education and professional activity
Langhoff attended high school in Berlin and studied chemistry and economics at the local university . In 1913 he went into business for himself with a chemical-technical company. He took part in the First World War as an officer in the Landwehr cavalry and from 1917 as a specialist officer in the inspection of air troops. Most recently he was head of the raw materials department.
From 1919 Langhoff was again self-employed in the chemical-technical and pharmaceutical-cosmetic industry. From 1922 to 1926 he held a leading position in the lignite and chemical industries. In 1927 he became director of the Reich Committee for Property Preservation by Painting.
Langhoff was close to German-Völkisch circles as early as the first half of the 1920s and ran for the Deutschvölkische Freedom Party in 1924 .
Leadership of the General German Arms Ring
As a member of the Corps Saxo-Borussia Berlin in Rudolstädter senior Convent he was after extraordinary Waffenstudententag in Goslar in 1933 by the leader of the German student body (DST), Oskar Staebel appointed the leader of the General German weapons ring, which represents the interests of beating corporations the Regulated relationships between the individual associations and represented them in relation to politics and the public. The ADW played a central role in the enforcement of the Aryan provisions in the individual corporation associations (1934), but was dissolved in October 1935 when the corporation associations were brought into line.
On March 26, 1934, Stäbel also appointed him head of arms and honorary office in the Reichsschaft der Studenten at German universities and technical colleges.
Nazi era
He was a member of the NSDAP (membership number 348.072) and a member of the Schutzstaffel (membership number 257.608), most recently in the rank of SS standard leader .
swell
- Archive of the ADW in the Kösener archive of the Institute for Higher Education at the University of Würzburg (inventory B 6).
literature
- Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1076.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Langhoff, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German industrialist and leader of the General German Arms Ring |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 14, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 7, 1944 |