Wilhelm von Allwörden

Wilhelm von Allwörden (born June 1, 1892 in Altona ; † August 10, 1955 in Hamburg ) was a German National Socialist politician and Hamburg senator .

Life

The son of a dentist attended elementary school in Altona and Wrist from 1899 to 1906, and then several private commercial schools without obtaining a formal qualification. After that he worked as a worker, office messenger, volunteer and commercial clerk until the outbreak of the First World War . During the First World War he was taken prisoner by Russia in 1915, from which he was released in August 1918.

After the end of the war, von Allwörden joined the völkisch movement and was involved in various right-wing extremist circles (Bund Armin for Loyalty and Unity, German-Völkische Freedom Movement , Völkisch-Sozialer Block ). On June 13, 1925, he joined the NSDAP and was immediately head of propaganda for Altona and Schleswig-Holstein , and from 1928 also local group leader in Altona. After joining the SA in 1926 , he soon rose to standartenführer and was temporarily in charge of the SA-Gau Nordmark. In 1929 he was elected to the Altona City Council as one of three National Socialist MPs.

From the beginning of 1930 von Allwörden was deputy Gauleiter and full-time managing director of the Gaues Hamburg and since then has belonged to the closest management group around Gauleiter Karl Kaufmann . From 1931 to 1933 he was also the party leader of the NSDAP in the Hamburg citizenship .

Hamburg Senator

Von Allwörden had been a member of the Hamburg Senate since May 8, 1933 , initially for a few months as Senator of the Welfare Authority, and from October 1933 as Senator for Culture with responsibility for the newly formed education authority. In this function he was responsible for the entire school and university policy in Hamburg until March 1938, drove the displacement of Jews from school, university and cultural life and also made a name for himself as a promoter of Low German customs as the foundation for a “healthy ethnic development”.

In April 1938 von Allwörden moved to the head of the administration for trade, shipping and trade and was appointed by Gauleiter Kaufmann as port and Aryanization commissioner and in May 1939 as permanent economic representative of the Reich governor. As a senator and economic officer, he was also represented on numerous supervisory boards of public companies and thus "one of the most important economic policy makers of the National Socialist regime in Hamburg"

Alongside this, until he moved to Berlin, he held a number of leading positions in party organizations ( NSV , Winterhilfswerk , Kraft durch Freude ) and other associations (Association of Low German Hamburg, Nordic Society , Art Association in Hamburg , Reich Colonial Association ).

Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories

In May 1942 von Allwörden was delegated to the newly formed Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories , initially as a consultant in the economic department, from May 1943 - with simultaneous promotion to SA group leader - finally as head of main department II "Administration" with at that time six departments and over 40 groups (presentations).

Shortly before the end of the war, von Allwörden returned to Hamburg in March 1945 and was appointed by Gauleiter Kaufmann as a representative for air damage.

post war period

In May 1945 von Allwörden was removed from office by the British city commandant Harry William Hugh Armytage and then interned until March 1948 . In the denazification process in 1949 he was classified as category III (“minor offenders”) and permanently excluded from all managerial or supervisory positions in public or private administrations and companies.

literature

• Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Vol. 6). Synchron - Wissenschaftsverlag der Authors, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 13 f.
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945? S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-10-039309-0 .
• Uwe Lohalm: Allwörden, Wilhelm von . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 3 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0081-4 , p. 16-18 .
• Andreas Zellhuber: "Our administration is heading for a catastrophe ..." The Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories and the German occupation in the Soviet Union 1941–1945 (= writings of the Philosophical Faculties of the University of Augsburg. Historical-Social Science Series. Vol. 71). Vögel, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-89650-213-1 (also: Augsburg, University, dissertation, 2005).

Web links

• Short biography - project "Officials of National Socialist Reich Ministries"
• Newspaper article about Wilhelm von Allwörden in the press kit of the 20th century of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Wilhelm von Allwörden - Officials of National Socialist Reich Ministries . In: Officials of National Socialist Reich Ministries . March 9, 2018 ( ns-reichsministerien.de [accessed March 29, 2018]).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Lohalm, Hamburgische Biografie, p. 17 f.
3. ↑ Zellhuber pp. 108 and 118 ff.