Walter Tießler

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Walter Tießler (born December 18, 1903 in Ermsleben , † 1984 in Munich ) was a German Reichsamtsleiter on the staff of the Deputy of the Führer (later the Party Chancellery ) and a liaison to the Reich Propaganda Ministry .

Career

Tießler attended grammar school in Greiz, Graudenz and Halle and was an apprentice in the Knapp publishing house in Halle and in the forwarding agency in Halle from 1921 to 1922. Deviating from this, Willi A. Boelcke reports that Tießler had no higher education - like his later superior Otto Dietrich - and began to work as a stretcher. From 1922 to 1930 he was an administrative clerk at the miners' insurance .

As early as 1924 he joined the National Socialists , was taken over by the Propaganda Ministry in 1925 as district leader of the NSDAP , in 1926 as Gau propaganda leader in Gau Halle and in 1933 as regional branch manager for Central Germany. From April to July 10, 1933 he was a member of the Prussian State Council .

In 1934 he moved to Munich and built the "Reichsring for National Socialist Propaganda and Public Enlightenment", a main office in the Reich leadership of the NSDAP, which was supposed to ensure the uniform orientation of the various NS organizations and associations.

This position, he oversaw further than he in the 1940 Nazi Party Chancellery was included to there in the Division II N the Liaison Office to the Ministry of Propaganda to conduct. He continued this work in the party chancellery (renamed in 1941) until 1944.

meaning

Because the original files of the party chancellery have not been preserved, Tießler's 20,000-sheet correspondence is an important source for historians . It shows differences in interests between Joseph Goebbels , who responded flexibly to fluctuations in mood, and Martin Bormann , who unswervingly propagated the National Socialist worldview . Tießler himself was not only a "manoeuvrable liaison struggling to balance things out", but also an ambitious "agitator".

In August 1941, Tießler proposed that Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen be hanged for his critical speeches. For the forbidden sexual intercourse between “ German-blooded ” women with “ foreign nationals ” he propagated the death penalty in 1941 as a deterrent. Against the “dissemination of jokes harmful to the party”, he suggested to Bormann in 1943 that reliable men who remained unpunished should give them a “rubdown”.

Career kink

Tießler reacted with increasing disappointment to the lack of an appointment as deputy Gauleiter he had hoped for . Since the end of 1942 his reputation in the Reich Propaganda Ministry sank, and he was allowed to speak to Goebbels in person less and less frequently. Tießler saw the offer to take over a “Reich Propaganda Office” as a “demotion”. At the beginning of 1944 he took over the post of a liaison man in the party chancellery to Governor General Hans Frank .

Nothing is known about Walter Tießler's whereabouts.

Publications

  • Walter Tießler: On Rudolf Heß's staff - liaison to Dr. Goebbels , ARNDT-Verlag, Kiel 2019, ISBN 978-3-88741-298-2 .

literature

  • Peter Longerich : Hitler's deputy. Management of the NSDAP and control of the state apparatus by the staff of Hess and Bormann's party chancellery , Munich: KG Saur 1992, ISBN 3598110812 .
  • Willi A. Boelcke (Ed.): War Propaganda 1939–1941. Secret ministerial conferences in the Reich Propaganda Ministry. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1966, pp. 98-99.
  • Joachim Lilla : The Prussian State Council 1921–1933. A biographical manual. With a documentation of the State Councilors appointed in the “Third Reich” (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 13). Droste, Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 3-7700-5271-4 , pp. 164-165.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Götz Aly, Andrea Löw (Ed.): German Reich and Protectorate September 1939 - September 1941 . tape 3 . Ouldenburg Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-58524-7 , pp. 452-353 .
  2. ^ Joachim Lilla : The Prussian State Council 1921-1933. A biographical manual. With a documentation of the State Councilors appointed in the “Third Reich” (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 13). Droste, Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 3-7700-5271-4 , p. 164.
  3. ↑ a b c Willi A. Boelcke (Ed.): War Propaganda 1939–1941. Secret Ministerial Conferences in the Reich Propaganda Ministry , 1966, p. 99.
  4. ↑ Peter Longerich: Hitler's deputy ... Munich et al. 1992, ISBN 3-598-11081-2 , p. 126.
  5. ↑ Peter Longerich: Hitler's Deputy ... , pp. 126-127.
personal data
SURNAME Tießler, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German propagandist of National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Experience
DATE OF DEATH 1984
Place of death Munich