Wilhelm Canenbley

Wilhelm August Heinrich Canenbley (born December 21, 1901 in Fürstenau , † March 2, 1973 in Rotenburg (Wümme) ) was a German agricultural functionary.

Life path

1901 to 1930

After graduating from high school in 1919, Canenbley initially served as a volunteer in the Eastern Border Guard , part of the Provisional Reichswehr . From 1920 to 1922 he completed an agricultural apprenticeship at the Hoya manor on the Weser, then until 1923 he was the agricultural administrator of the Clus-Braunschweig domain. From 1923 to 1926 Canenbley studied agriculture in Göttingen and graduated there in 1926 as a qualified farmer . In 1927 he was at the Leipzig Dr. phil. PhD. In the same year he became department head and deputy managing director at the main livestock administration for the Province of Saxony eGmbH in Halle (Saale). From 1927 to 1928 he worked in his father-in-law's farm in Nindorf. From 1928 to 1930 Canenbley was in charge of animal breeding at Löbnitz Castle .

time of the nationalsocialism

Canenbley joined the NSDAP on November 1, 1931 . From October 1933 to March 1935 he was Chief Staff Leader at the State Farmers' Union of Saxony-Anhalt , Halle (Saale), under State Farmer Leader Hellmut Körner ; subsequently, from April 1935 to February 1937, chief staff leader at the state peasantry of Silesia , Breslau , under the state farmer leader Johannes Slawik . Canenbley joined the SS on October 28, 1935 . On January 1, 1936, he was appointed civil servant. From 1936 he worked as a farmer's assistant south-west at the Race and Settlement Main Office (RuSHA) of the SS. From February to April 1937, Canenbley was assistant to the administrative office leader Hellmut Körner of the Reichsbauernführer Walther Darré . On March 24, 1937, Canenbley was appointed Chief Agriculture Councilor. Until April 1937 he was the NSDAP Gaitenleiter, in the same month he was appointed SS-Untersturmführer. On June 21, 1937 Canenbley was promoted to the Reich Agricultural Council (RLR). In 1938 he became SS-Obersturmführer.

In 1941 Canenbley became SS-Hauptsturmführer at the Race and Settlement Office. On April 28, 1941 he was appointed Reich Nutrition Council. From August 1941 to August 1944 Canenbley was head of the War Administration Department in Section III E - 1 Section “Agricultural. Administration and Organization ”at the Economic Staff East and in the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories (RMfdbO), from June 1942 also sub-department head IA in the Reich Ministry for Food and Agriculture (RMEL). On August 28, 1942, Canenbley was appointed ministerial director. On January 30, 1944, he received the War Merit Cross, 1st Class. From September 1944 to 1945 Canenbley served in the German Wehrmacht.

After the Second World War

From 1945 Canenbley managed the farm in Nindorf, inherited from his difficult father. In the post-war period he held numerous memberships, honorary offices and club activities, including as a member of the Nindorf municipal council, board member of the Rotenburg Landkrankenkasse, chairman of the representative assembly of the Hanoverian agricultural trade association and the seed producer community in the area of ​​the Hanover Chamber of Agriculture. For around seven years, from 1956 to 1963, Canenbley was chief executive officer of the Lower Saxony rural association. On October 8, 1962, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class.

Canenbley died at the age of 71 on March 2, 1973 in Rotenburg (Wümme).

Publications

• Wilhelm August Heinrich Canenbley, The German refined country pig at the exhibitions of the German Agricultural Society , Borna-Leipzig: Noske, 1927

literature

• Engehausen, Frank (project leader), Propaganda - Aviation - Education - Eastern Territories. Officials of the National Socialist Reich Ministries. Recruitment - careers - post-war paths, entry: "Wilhelm Canenbley", https://ns-reichsministerien.de/2020/05/07/wilhelm-canenbley/  ; accessed on May 20, 2020

• Harten, Hans-Christian, ideological training of the SS and the police in National Socialism. Compilation of personal data, 2017, p. 73, https://www.pedocs.de/volltexte/2018/15155/pdf/Harten_2017_Weltseheniche_Schulung_der_SS_und_der_Polizei.pdf  ; accessed on May 20, 2020

swell

• Archives of the Landvolkes Niedersachsen, Landesbauernverband eV, PA Canenbley.

• BArch Berlin-Lichterfelde, R 3601/5549; R 3601/5050; R 9361-VIII file / 4991211; R 9361-IX card index / 5380424.

• NLA OS, Rep. 492 No. 7198.

• NLA ST, Rep. 275 II No. 14719.

• Article “Wilhelm Canenbley”, in: Habel, Walter: Who is who? The German who's who. XIV. Edition of Degener's Who is it ?, Vol. 1, Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin, Berlin 1962.