Wilhelm Decker

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Wilhelm Decker
Decker at the lectern in the auditorium of Berlin University, draped with swastika flags, giving a speech at a Langemarck celebration on November 11, 1936

Wilhelm "Will" Decker (born December 13, 1899 in Rostock , † May 1, 1945 near Berlin ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ), publicist and general labor leader during the Nazi era . He should not be confused with the SA man Wilhelm Decker (1907–1931) of the same name, referred to as the “martyr of the Nazi movement”.

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In his youth, Decker attended the humanistic grammar school in Rostock. From 1917 he took part "from the school desk" in the First World War, in which he was deployed on the Western Front .

After the war, Decker studied history and German at the University of Rostock . In 1922 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. From 1923 Decker wrote for the folk- oriented Pyritzer Kreisblatt in Pomerania. In 1924 he became editor of the Mecklenburger Warte newspaper . In 1926 Decker left the völkisch movement to join the NSDAP ( membership number 136.932). In 1929 he became a Gau and Reich speaker of the NSDAP and in November of the same year a member of the Brandenburg Provincial Committee and the Niederbarnim district assembly .

From September 1930 to May 1945 Decker was a member of the Reichstag as a member of constituency 4 (Potsdam I). As a member of parliament, Decker voted for the Enabling Act of March 1933, which formed the legal basis for the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship.

Since 1931 active in the voluntary labor service, the NSDAP top appointed him "Inspector for Education and Training" in the Reich leadership. From 1934 he published the National Socialist magazine Volk an der Arbeit , the content of which was so well placed that Decker was appointed General Labor Leader in the Reich Labor Service in 1935 . In addition, Decker was active as a composer and wrote some songs for the Reich Labor Service.

Reich Education Minister Bernhard Rust made Decker a lecturer for labor service at the University of Berlin in 1935 , where he was made an honorary professor in June 1937 . In the Working Group for German Folklore, founded in 1937, Decker was briefly head of the celebration design department .

From January 30, 1939, Decker was the holder of the Golden Party Badge of the NSDAP .

From 1940 he also acted as permanent representative of the leader of the RAD, Konstantin Hierl . In addition, Decker was a member of the advisory board of the “Research Department Jewish Question ” within the Reich Institute for the History of New Germany from 1940 .

Decker died in the fighting for Berlin in early May 1945 . Whether it was suicide or whether he was fatally wounded has not yet been clarified.

All of Decker's writings were placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone after the end of the war .

Fonts

  • The Napoleonic Continental Barrier and its effects in Rostock , 1922.
  • The German Way , Leipzig 1933.
  • Crosses on the way to freedom , Leipzig 1935.
  • Will and Work , 1935.
  • The political task of the labor service , Berlin 1935.
  • The German Labor Service , Berlin 1937.
  • Maiden at work , 1940.
  • With a spade through Poland , 1940.

Songs

  • The song starts from the workman
  • God bless the work
  • Holy fire
  • We want to march singing
  • We carry the fatherland in our hearts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Clemens Vollnhals: Hitler. Speeches, writings, orders. February 1925 to January 1933 , 1992, p. 69. Decker was killed under circumstances that were never fully understood. According to a Nazi legend, he died on November 9, 1931, when he was shot in the heart by a member of the pro-democratic Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold .
  2. ↑ Decker already enrolled in Rostock in the winter semester 1917/18. See Wilhelm Decker's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ^ Manfred Seifert: Cultural work in the Reich Labor Service. Theory and practice of National Socialist cultural maintenance in the context of historical-political, organizational and ideological influences . Münster, New York 1996, p. 404.
  4. ^ Klaus D. Patzwall : The golden party badge and its honorary awards 1934-1944, Studies of the History of Awards Volume 4 , Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt 2004, ISBN 3-931533-50-6 , p. 67
  5. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 103.
  6. ^ Manfred Seifert: Kulturarbeit im Reichsarbeitsdienst , 1996, p. 141.
  7. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-d.html

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SURNAME Decker, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Decker, Will
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1945
Place of death near Berlin