Adrian von Renteln

Theodor Adrian von Renteln ( born September 15, 1897 in Hodsi, Russia, † 1946 in the Soviet Union ) was a German politician ( NSDAP) and economic functionary.

Life

Renteln was of Baltic German origin, studied in Berlin and Rostock, economics and law, became the Dr. rer. pol. his PhD in 1928 and joined the Nazi Party and SA. In 1929 he founded the since 1927 existing only in individual local associations NS students covenant previously (NSS ) as a wide -ranging organizational and stood him until June 16, 1932 as Reichsführer ago. On 1 November 1931 he was also temporarily Reich Leader of the Hitler Youth, Baldur von Schirach until this took office on 16 June 1932. In 1932 he became a member of the Reichstag. From 1932 to 1933 he was the leader of the " National Socialist League of Struggle for the intellectual middle class" and worked as a consultant for money and credit, as well as temporarily as deputy director in the " Economic Policy Department of the NSDAP " with. On 3 May 1933, he was elected as the new Chairman of the National Federation of German Industry ( RDI). From 1933 to 1935 he was president of the National Socialist craft, commercial, and industrial organization (NS - HAGO ), an outline of the NSDAP ( 1933-1935 ), then part of the German Labor Front ( DAF). From Renteln was instrumental in the organization of campaigns against the Jewish department stores in the German Reich in this function. In 1935, he was chief of staff of the German Labor Front, here: " Head of the Supreme Disciplinary court of honor ", whose job it was to regulate the remedy within the organization and to remove " anti-social elements " from her and " Head of the Institute of Applied Economics " at the University Leipzig. Since 1939 he was also a member of the National Socialist German Law Academy. In 1940 he was " Main Office Head of Trade and Crafts in the national leadership of the Nazi Party ," a year later, General Commissioner of Lithuania, as such, he was on the part of the civil administration of the main responsible for the murder of Lithuanian Jews during the German occupation.

1946 was executed by Renteln in the Soviet Union. According to another representation ( Dieckmann, 1997) it may be able to escape to South America.