Wilhelm Haegert

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Wilhelm Haegert (born March 14, 1907 in Rixdorf near Berlin ; † April 24, 1994 in Berlin) was a German lawyer and SA-Sturmbannführer. He had dropped out of law school. Nevertheless, he made a "steep career" under National Socialism. At the age of 26 he was promoted to Ministerialrat and became head of the Propaganda Department in the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda . He was also an SA storm leader.

Life

Haegert was born in 1907 as the son of a postal worker. He attended the state high school in Neukölln and then studied law and political science in Berlin and Greifswald . During his studies he became a member of the Germania Berlin fraternity in 1925 . He joined the NSDAP in 1929 ( membership number 143.648), immediately became deputy local group leader of the NSDAP in Angermünde , in 1931 head of the NSDAP legal protection department in the Gau Greater Berlin and soon after rose to the position of staff chief of the Reich Propaganda Department . In 1933, as Ministerialrat , he took over the management of Department II for Propaganda in the new Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda .

From January 30, 1938, Haegert held the NSDAP's golden party badge .

In the same year he fell out of favor with Goebbels and took over the management of the “Department for Folk Cultural Issues” and at the end of November 1939 the management of the “Department of Literature” in the Propaganda Ministry, which he continued until the end of the war. In 1941 he became vice-president of the Reichsschrifttumskammer ; in this function he took part in the Weimar poets meeting in 1941.

After the war he resumed his law studies. He completed his legal clerkship in Göttingen and passed his second state examination in Berlin in 1950. There the old fighter was also denazified. A “mild chamber” classified him as a “ fellow traveler ”. He then worked as a lawyer and notary in Berlin-Friedenau .

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , p. 216.
  • Hartmut Jäckel: People in Berlin. The last telephone book of the old capital in 1941 . DVA, Stuttgart a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-421-05421-5 .
  • Ernst Klee : The Personal Lexicon for the Third Reich - Who Was What Before and After 1945 . 2nd edition, June 2007, p. 216.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hartmut Jäckel: People in Berlin. The last telephone book of the old capital in 1941 . DVA, Stuttgart a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-421-05421-5 , p. 174.
  2. ^ Hartmut Jäckel: People in Berlin. The last telephone book of the old capital in 1941 . DVA, Stuttgart a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-421-05421-5 , p. 173.
  3. ↑ Database: Writing and Image 1900-1960: Haegert, Wilhelm . (last accessed on February 8, 2009)
  4. ^ Hartmut Jäckel: People in Berlin. The last telephone book of the old capital in 1941 . DVA, Stuttgart a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-421-05421-5 , p. 174.
personal data
SURNAME Haegert, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and SA-Sturmbannführer
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Rixdorf near Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1994
Place of death Berlin