National Socialist Teachers League

The National Socialist Teachers' Association ( NSLB ) was founded in 1929 as the party organization of the NSDAP affiliated Association, developed from 1933 for the sole teacher organization in the German Empire and existed until 1943.

The Association saw itself as a union of all people who wanted to be understood or interpreted as educators, regardless of training or education, regardless of the type of educational institution. His task was aimed at making the National Socialist ideology as the basis of education, especially the education system. This should be acted on ideological and political orientation of educators, in particular, promoted and operated their training in the National Socialist spirit. To this end, served as organized mountain tours for teachers in so-called Reich exchange camps.

Headquarters of the Organization was the home of the German education in Bayreuth. Founder and Walter Reich of the organization were Hans Schemm (1929-1935) and Fritz Wachtler ( 1935-1943 ). Your body was the National Socialist Teachers newspaper and the monthly " German education ". For the organization of the Kinderlandverschickung NSLB was after 1939 enabled again stronger, but otherwise fell into obscurity. The resolution 1943, in the course of concentrating forces on the total war to save human and material resources (eg magazines).

The NLSB had the following organizational structure:

As a result of not only based on pressure and force transition of existing teachers' associations under the umbrella of the NSLB the organization increased after the seizure of power by the National Socialists the sole teacher association in the German Empire, with around 300,000 members on. In July 1935, the outsourced here with organized high school teachers and lecturers in the National Socialist German Confederation ( NSDDB ) connected. Most members of the NSLB were female; the powerful " kingdom Officer for female education" in the association was Auguste Reber- Gruber, a leading by four female Nazi functionaries at all.