Wilhelm Ohlenbusch

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Wilhelm Ohlenbusch (born December 28, 1899 in Oldenburg , † April 4, 1997 in Oldenburg ) was a German National Socialist .

Life

Ohlenbusch attended elementary school and then middle school. From October 1917 Ohlenbusch took part in the First World War as a sailor in the Imperial Navy . In January 1919 he was discharged from the Navy. After his military service, he worked as a primary school teacher for five years and then studied economics for seven semesters at the universities of Hamburg and Frankfurt am Main . He left the university without a degree and then worked as a commercial clerk in Hamburg.

Ohlenbusch became a member of the NSDAP in early November 1930 ( membership number 349.049). He also became a member of the SA and rose there in April 1944 to the position of Sturmbannführer. For the NSDAP he worked as a section leader in Eversten from 1930 and worked as a district propaganda leader and district leader from 1931 until the Nazis came to power in 1933. Ohlenbusch applied to the Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (RMVP) for a job at the Hamburg regional office of the RMVP and was accepted there as a press officer. From 1934 he worked in the press department of the RMVP in Berlin. In April 1939 he was promoted to the government council.

After the outbreak of the Second World War , Ohlenbusch was transferred to the Generalgouvernement (GG) in September 1939 . There he initially headed the Warsaw branch of the Main Office “Public Enlightenment and Propaganda” in Krakow. In mid-January 1941, Ohlenbusch became the deputy head of the main office “Public Enlightenment and Propaganda” in the GG Erich Schmidt . In the spring of 1941, Ohlenbusch succeeded his predecessor Schmidt in office and was President of the Propaganda Department on November 27, 1943. Ohlenbusch, who held this position as the last incumbent until January 1945, was appointed to the senior government council in 1943.

literature

  • Lars Jockheck: Propaganda in the Generalgouvernement - The Nazi occupation press for Germans and Poles 1939-1945 , individual publications by the German Historical Institute in Warsaw, Volume 15, fiber Verlag, Osnabrück 2006, ISBN 3-938400-08-0 , p. 76f. (pdf) , pp. 77f.
  • Werner Präg / Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (eds.): The service diary of the German Governor General in Poland 1939–1945 . Publications of the Institute for Contemporary History , Sources and Representations on Contemporary History Volume 20, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-421-01700-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Werner Präg / Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (ed.): The service diary of the German Governor General in Poland 1939–1948 , Stuttgart 1975, pp. 950f.
  2. ↑ a b Lars Jockheck: Propaganda in the General - The Nazi occupation press for German and Poland 1939-1945 , Osnabrück 2006, p 77f.
personal data
SURNAME Ohlenbusch, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Nazi propaganda leader in the General Government
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1997
Place of death Oldenburg