Werner Studentkowski

Werner Studentkowski

Werner Studentkowski (born September 20, 1903 in Kiev , † January 26, 1951 in Rinteln ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

Live and act

Werner Studentkowski was born in Kiev in 1903 as the son of German parents. After attending a grammar school in Magdeburg, he completed a two-year banking apprenticeship in Magdeburg and Jena . He then worked briefly as an office clerk in Leipzig . From 1925 to 1927 he studied law and economics at the University of Leipzig , but had to interrupt his studies for financial reasons. In 1929 he enrolled in philosophy. In addition, he attended events in the fields of history, sociology and newspaper studies.

After he had been involved in the National Socialist German Student Union during his first degree , Studentkowski also began to speak and organize for the NSDAP himself, to which he had belonged since May 8, 1925 (membership number 3.815). In 1927 he was commissioned by the young Berlin Gauleiter Joseph Goebbels , whom Studentkowski had met in the autumn of 1926, to organize NSDAP propaganda work in the province of Brandenburg . From 1927 to 1928 he worked as a Gau speaker for the NSDAP and then as a Reich speaker . In November 1933 he was appointed head of regional training for the NSDAP Saxony.

In the period from June 22, 1930 to November 14, 1933, Studentkowski held public office for the first time as a member of the NSDAP in the Saxon state parliament . From 1931 he studied with Hans Freyer at the same time . As a member of the state parliament he was noticed, among other things, by a parliamentary speech in which he - according to National Socialist ideas - brought "pure-bred" and "impure" people into an analogy to the animal kingdom: He developed the idea that "pure-blooded people" behave towards impure races would like pedigree dogs to pigs; While dogs (purebreds) could be house-trained through upbringing - and thus useful members of the household community - this would not be possible with pigs (i.e. unpurebreds), so that they would ultimately only be suitable for slaughtering.

Immediately before the National Socialists came to power in spring 1933, Studentkowski became a member of the city council of Leipzig in early January 1933. In November 1933 he was also elected as a member of the Reichstag , which was now completely politically independent , and to which he was to belong for almost eleven and a half years as a representative of constituency 29 (Leipzig).

In the years 1933/1934 Studentkowski was responsible for the management of political education at the university at the University of Leipzig under the unsuspicious designation of "scientific unskilled worker" . On February 1, 1934, he was finally appointed to the rank of senior government councilor in the Saxon Ministry of Education, where he took over the management of the university department and the Office for National Socialist Adult Education. In this capacity, it was up to Studentkowski to reorganize the Saxon university operations according to National Socialist ideas: Since every new appointment and every dismissal for political reasons went over his desk, in the following years he was responsible in particular for bringing the universities under his control into line with personnel policy . In 1941 Studentkowski left the Ministry of Education after conflicts with Gauleiter Martin Mutschmann .

From 1941 to 1945 Studentkowski worked as Reichsamtsleiter in the Reich Propaganda Management of the NSDAP in Berlin. In addition, he was Oberführer (1942) in the staff management of the SA . From 1944 Studentkowski was used in the Waffen SS in Lorraine . Later he came into Soviet captivity from which he was released due to illness after the end of the Second World War . He then worked as a medicinal herb collector.

Studentkowski lived under the false name Walter Strohschneider , which he had acquired by 1945 at the latest, in the British occupation zone . Therefore, he did not go through a denazification process .

His son was the Rhineland-Palatinate SPD member of the state parliament and last district president of Trier Heinrich Studentkowski (1938-2000).

Fonts

• Work, economy, law. JF Lehmanns Verlag, Munich, DNB 57875858X .

literature

• Michael Grüttner : Biographical lexicon on National Socialist science policy. Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 171 f.
• 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 .
• Michael Parak: Faces of the University. Werner Studentkowski (1903-1951). In: Journal. Communications and reports for family members and friends of the University of Leipzig. 7 (2004), p. 42.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Interestingly, Studentkowski did not mention the interruption of his first degree in his entry in the Reichstag handbook, which was based on self-reported information. There he does not indicate the beginning of his humanities studies, unlike the university, as 1929, but as early as 1928, possibly purposefully in order to cover the gap in his course of study. 
2. ↑ Thomas Friedrich: The abused capital. Hitler and Berlin. 2007, ISBN 978-3-549-07196-0 , p. 168.
3. ↑ Erich Stockhorst: 5000 heads. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 , p. 418 (Unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).
4. ↑ The freedom struggle (output: Gau Saxony), the 11/14/1933, p 4
5. ↑ Jerry Z. Muller: The Other God that failed. Hans Freyer and the Deradicalization of German Conservatism. Princeton University Press 1977, ISBN 0-691-05508-4 , p. 157
6. ↑ Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann: Nazism in Central Germany. The Brownshirts in 'red' Saxony. 1999, ISBN 1-571-81942-8 , p. 182.
7. ^ Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 542.
8. ↑ Strohschneider was the maiden name of his wife Gerda.

Web links

• Werner Studentkowski in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Literature by and about Werner Studentkowski in the catalog of the German National Library