Wilhelm Ohnesorge (politician)

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Wilhelm Ohnesorge (center, hat in hand) 1937

Karl Wilhelm Ohnesorge (born June 8, 1872 in Graefenhainichen ; † February 1, 1962 in Munich ) was a German politician (NSDAP) during the Nazi era and from 1937 to 1945 Reich Minister of the Post .

Life

The son of a telegraph clerk was without a care. In 1890 he started as an apprentice at the Oberpostdirektion Frankfurt. Ohnesorge then studied physics in Kiel and Berlin and in 1916 became post counselor and head of the postal service at the imperial headquarters during the First World War . After the war he was a member of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund . He had known Hitler since 1920, founded one of the first non-Bavarian local groups of the NSDAP in Dortmund that same year, and from then on referred to himself as Hitler's "personal friend". In the same year he joined the party ( membership number 42) and was awarded the NSDAP's golden party badge .

After becoming President of the Reich Post Central Office in 1929 , he moved to the Reich Post Ministry as State Secretary in 1933 , effectively taking over the management of the Ministry long before he actually succeeded Paul von Eltz-Rübenach as Post Minister on February 2, 1937 .

Ohnesorge was not only a staunch National Socialist, but also a proven technician with a special interest in the transmission of image signals via wire and radio. In 1936 the Reichspost acquired 44 hectares of land around the Hakeburg and set up a research institute for the Deutsche Reichspost (RPF) for 2.4 million Reichsmarks . The Hakeburg itself was presented to the Audit Office of the German Reich as an official residence with the private character of the post office minister . Around this private residence in Kleinmachnow, directly on Lake Machnower , Ohnesorge organized high-tech research in stone buildings and barracks until shortly before the end of the war, which linked the world's most modern radio television technology with other technologies such as rocket research.

Under his leadership, the Reich Ministry of Post was also heavily involved in nuclear research. The latest research indicates that Unesorge was one of the driving forces behind the “ uranium project ”, the development of a German atomic bomb . He presented Hitler on this several times. In particular, the collaboration with Manfred von Ardenne's research laboratory for electron physics in Berlin-Lichterfelde has not yet been worked out in detail. Particular attention should be paid to the development of an electromagnetic mass separator, which was probably built in Bad Saarow in 1943 . In Zeuthen , too , the construction of a large cyclotron and a pilot plant for isotope separation began.

In the denazification after 1945, several Bavarian tribunals classified lack of concern as the main culprit. This judgment was later reversed, the confiscated assets were not returned, but a pension was granted. In 1942, Ohnesorge had received an endowment of 250,000 Reichsmarks from Hitler .

In the Soviet zone of occupation and in the GDR , several of his writings were placed on the list of literature to be sorted out.

His daughter is the program editor, former TV announcer and presenter Lotti Ohnesorge .

Awards and honors

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uwe Lohalm: Völkischer Radikalismus: The history of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutz-Bund. 1919-1923 . Leibniz, Hamburg 1970, ISBN 3-87473-000-X , pp. 318, 327.
  2. ↑ Hubert Faensen, Leo Seidel, Hightech for Hitler: the Hakeburg - from the research center to the Kaderschmiede , 2001, p. 48
  3. ^ Henry Picker : Hitler's table talks in the Führer Headquarters. Propylaea 1997. Unpublished TV interview with Rochus Misch, conducted by Heiko Petermann , Screen TV, May 20, 2002.
  4. ^ Rainer Karlsch: Hitler's bomb. DVA, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-421-05809-1 .
  5. ↑ Manfred von Ardenne: A happy life for technology and research. 6th edition. Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1982, p. 389.
  6. ↑ Gerd R. Ueberschär , Winfried Vogel : Serving and earning. Hitler's gifts to his elites. Frankfurt 1999, ISBN 3-10-086002-0
  7. ^ German administration for popular education in the Soviet occupation zone, list of literature to be sorted out. Zentralverlag Berlin: 1946 letter O, pages 300–306.
  8. ^ Ministry of National Education of the German Democratic Republic, list of the literature to be sorted out, third supplement. VEB Deutscher Zentralverlag Berlin: 1953 letter O, pp. 143–146
  9. ↑ Martin Morlock: Sex and Soul . In: Der Spiegel . No. 7 , 1966 ( online ).
  10. ↑ The haunted house. In: tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved October 24, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME No worries, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Unesorge, Karl Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician; Post Minister (1937-1945)
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Graefenhainichen
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1962
Place of death Munich