Hans Hinkel
Hans Hinkel ( born June 22, 1901 in Worms, † February 8, 1960 in Göttingen ) was a German journalist and ministerial official SS officer in Nazi German Reich.
Life
Hinkel, son of a factory joined in 1920 the Freikorps Oberland and 1921 as a student for the first time the NSDAP ( member number: 287 ). In 1923 he took part in the Beer Hall Putsch. As early as 1919 he had joined the fraternity Sugambria Bonn connected. After the ban, and the readmission of the NSDAP in 1925, he joined again the NSDAP ( member number 4686 ). In 1928 he was editor of the Nazi "war Verlag" Berlin, the abrupt appearance of organs of the NSDAP, 1930-1932 editor of the People's Observer in Berlin. He also worked for German culture in nationalist -minded, anti -Semitic League of Struggle. In 1930 he became a member of parliament. In 1931, he joined the SS.
After the " seizure of power" of the NSDAP 1933 Hinkel Reich Organization Leader of the League of Struggle for German Culture ( KfdK ) and third-party manager of the Reich Chamber of Culture. Monitored from July 1933 Hinkel as a state commissioner and " kingdom of culture Walter" the Cultural Association of German Jews, which was founded on July 15, 1933 and dissolved on September 11, 1941 by the Gestapo in Berlin. In this role, Hinkel made for a foreclosure of the non- Jewish artists.
Since 1935, Hinkel was in the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda as special envoy for " personal culture " responsible ( "Special Unit Hinkel - the Jewish question "). In this function, the SS officer and Blood Order was particularly responsible for the repression of Jewish German from the culture operation, the so-called " dejudification ". Hans Hinkel was, among others, the driving force behind the pressure that was exerted on the popular actor Joachim Gottschalk, to separate himself from his Jewish wife.
End of 1942, Hans Hinkel took over the management of the film department in the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. Hinkel organized preview screenings of films before propaganda experts, agencies and authorities. Propaganda films were tested with regard to their effectiveness. Since the anti-Semitic propaganda film touched a core issue of National Socialism, these test screenings also served as a means to einzuschwören the entire propaganda apparatus to a common, radical line.
In March 1944, Hans Hinkel new Reich film director. In this capacity, he made sure that in the final stages of the war, more than half of all members of the German film industry were forcibly conscripted as soldiers and the Volkssturm. In 1945, he was interned and transferred in 1947 for his involvement in the robbery of Polish cultural goods to Poland. He returned from there in 1952 in the Federal Republic of Germany, where he was no longer held accountable for his deeds to account.
All his publications, including the Handbook published by him writings of Reich Chamber of Culture and Jewish quarter in Europe were set in the Soviet zone of occupation on the list of proscribed literature.