Wilhelm Kinkelin

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Wilhelm Kinkelin (born August 25, 1896 in Pfullingen ; † October 18, 1990 ibid) was a German physician who joined the Sturmabteilung (SA) before the National Socialist " seizure of power " and from 1937 in various functions in the Race and Settlement Main Office , worked on the staff of the Reichsbauernführer , in the Reich Security Main Office and in the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories (RMfdBO). From 1943 he was head of the “Blood Care and Racial Culture” office in the Reich Office for Agricultural Policy of the NSDAP . His highest rank was SS brigade leader . He also worked for the German Ahnenerbe Research Foundation and was a Swabian homeland researcher before and after the Second World War .

Life

Wilhelm Martin Kinkelin was 18 years old when the First World War broke out and was awarded the Iron Cross II class in 1914 as a combatant . After the war he studied medicine and worked as a country doctor in the Swabian town of Gönningen ; he received his doctorate in 1926 with a medical dissertation at the University of Tübingen. In 1930 Kinkelin joined the SA ; he was also a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 509.411).

From 1935 Kinkelin was active in the staff of the Reichsbauernführer Walter Darré . In 1937 Kinkelin joined the Schutzstaffel (SS) (SS no. 275.990) and worked in the race and settlement main office of the SS. In May 1936, Kinkelin became Vice President of the Research Association of German Ahnenerbe , without his responsibilities being specified.

In 1939, Kinkelin was made chief office officer in the staff of the Reichsbauernführer , and in August 1940 he was promoted to SS-Oberführer . From 1941 he was also on the staff of the Reich Security Main Office and the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories active (RMfdbO), where he led by the Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg as a department head in the Department I (policy) for Ukraine was responsible (Division I / 3 Ukraine). At the same time he was responsible for Department I / 7 (“Volkstum und Siedlung”). His direct supervisor was the main department head Georg Leibbrandt , his main contact persons in the RMfdbO were the department head Otto Bräutigam (General Politics Department) and Erich Koch , Reich Commissioner for Ukraine.

In 1943 Kinkelin was appointed ministerial director and from then on headed the office of "Blood Care and Racial Culture" in the Reich Office for Agricultural Policy of the NSDAP. In June 1943, Kinkelin was promoted to SS brigade leader.

Local history

Kinkelin worked as a Swabian homeland researcher, he published an essay on the " Blood Court zu Cannstatt " (1935), a homeland book on Pfullingen (1937) and one on Gönningen (1952). The Pfullinger Heimatbuch was published again in a revised form in 1956. Kinkelin emphasized the early Germanic period of the Swabian tribe. The book was described by the historian Klaus Graf , who relied on the local researcher Hermann Taigel from Pfullingen, as a "crude historical misrepresentation of the blood-and-soil ideology ". Hermann Taigel published a critical account of Wilhelm Kinkelin as a local researcher in 1999. Kinkelin's script Cannstatt (1935) was placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to: State funding and scientific independence of the national history . Stuttgart 1995, p. 241
  2. ↑ a b Andreas Zellhuber: "Our administration is driving a catastrophe ...". The Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories and German occupation in the Soviet Union 1941–1945 . Vögel, Munich 2006, p. 112. ISBN 3-8965-0213-1 .
  3. ↑ Wilhelm Kinkelin: Findings on identical and dizygotic twins . Inaugural -Diss. Tübingen, msch. M. Tübingen 1926 (Tübingen UB-UM 2403).
  4. ↑ Michael H. Kater : The "Ahnenerbe" of the SS 1935-1945: A contribution to the cultural policy of the Third Reich . Oldenbourg, Munich 2005, p. 27. ISBN 3-486-57950-9 . (4th edition, originally published in 1966.)
  5. ↑ Hans-Heinrich Wilhelm: The Einsatzgruppe A of the security police and the SD 1941/42 . Stuttgart 1981. Quoted from Andreas Zellhuber: "Our administration is driving a catastrophe ...". The Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories and German occupation in the Soviet Union 1941–1945 . Vögel, Munich 2006, p. 108, fig. 8. ISBN 3-8965-0213-1 .
  6. ^ Wilhelm Kinkelin: Cannstatt. The tragedy of the Swabian tribe . In: Odal, Verlag "Zeitgeschichte", Berlin 1935.
  7. ^ Wilhelm Kinkelin: Pfullingen. A home book of the city of Pfullingen on the occasion of the millennium 937–1937 . City of Pfullingen, Reutlingen 1937.
  8. ^ Wilhelm Kinkelin: Heimatbuch Gönningen. On the occasion of the 860th anniversary . Moegle, Gönningen 1952.
  9. ^ Hermann Taigel: Local history in the "Third Reich" - Wilhelm Kinkelins Pfullinger Heimatbuch . In: Swabian homeland. Vol. 44 (1993), pp. 113-121 ( online ).
  10. ↑ Klaus Graf: To the glorification of Swabia. The preoccupation with legends in the 19th and 20th centuries . In: Manfred Bosch (Ed.): Schwabenspiegel. Literature from the Neckar to Lake Constance 1800–1950. Vol. 2,1, Biberach 2006, ISBN 3-86142-405-3 , pp. 279–309 ( extended version ; here p. 42).
  11. ^ Contributions to the history of Pfullinger. Vol. 1999, issue 10, pp. 37-67.
  12. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-k.html
personal data
SURNAME Kinkelin, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kinkelin, Wilhelm Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and National Socialist, SS brigade leader
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Pfullingen
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1990
Place of death Pfullingen