August Schirmer
August Schirmer ( born June 16, 1905 in Celle, † October 30, 1948 ibid ) was a German architect, civil engineer, main branch manager in office Rosenberg and a member of the Reichstag.
Life and work
Schirmer attended a high school in Celle and studied at the Technical University of Hannover architecture. After graduation, he performed in 1929 worked as a foreman at the Prussian Building Department in Torgau. From 1930 to 1933 he was a research assistant at the Technische Hochschule in Hannover. Starting in the winter semester 1935/36, he served as a lecturer, as well as Joachim Mrugowsky, at the Technical University of Hannover events on " Political Ideological Education" by, were in those so-called " hereditary biological questions " treated.
In May 1929 he joined the National Socialist German Students' League ( NSDStB ) and in February 1930, the NSDAP. In Hanover, he was from the beginning of February 1930 the country director of the Combat League for German Culture ( KfdK ). As of July 1933, he acted within the party as well as Gauschulungsleiter Gaukulturwart in the district of South Hanover - Braunschweig. As of July 1934 Schirmer was consistently a member of the Nazi Reichstag for the electoral district of 6 ( Pomerania ).
At the " Officer of the leader for the entire spiritual and philosophical education of the NSDAP ", the party ideologue Alfred Rosenberg, Schirmer worked as the main branch manager from 1 November 1935. By Schirmer " the archive and the library of the world service by donation of the [ ... ] Fleischhauer " officially went to the office Rosenberg. Schirmer was formally publisher of anti-Semitic magazine world service. The editors of the magazine changed its name in the Official Rosenberg from 1938 as the Official Jews and Freemasons questions, the Schirmer board.
On July 22, opened in 1940 and Schirmer, who was considered a " specialist" in questions of Judaism and Freemasonry, the newly built " office west " of the insertion rod Reich Leader Rosenberg in Paris (Hotel Commodore on the Boulevard Haussmann in the Avenue d' Iéna No. 54). Thus was the ministry which was headed by Georg Ebert, operational. Already on 28 July met two wagons with musical instruments from Paris towards " Office Musik" in Berlin. William Gray Also, the Schirmer had visited together with Gotthard Urban already the end of 1938 regarding the establishment of the Institute for the Study of the Jewish Question, began henceforth with his uninhibited activity in Paris.
That, as the historian Reinhard Bollmus stated, " rather meaningless " Official Jews and Freemasons questions was incorporated in 1942 in the main office, State powers of the Office Rosenberg under the direction of Hans Hagemeyer. Schirmer made from this time military service in the Wehrmacht. His replacement as editor of World Service took place in September 1943, after he had come under suspicion of fraud and further from his " defects of character " were certified. He was accused of having used a confiscated in Paris stamp collection for private purposes.
Schirmer died in 1948 in Celle. He was buried in the military cemetery, which was prepared by the People's League at the city cemetery in Celle.