NSDAP/AO

The NSDAP / AO was from 1931 to 1945, the international organization of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.

  • 2.1 Selection of some of the country team leader of the NSDAP / AO in different countries and periods
  • 4.1 investigations
  • 4.2 fonts to regions
  • 4.3 Contemporary writings

History

The living outside the borders of the German Reich Party members were summarized in a separate structure, in the Foreign Organization of the NSDAP ( abbreviated as AO). On May 1, 1931 that OU was founded on the initiative of Reich Organization Leader Gregor Strasser and transfer their line Hans Nieland. However Nieland already occurred on 8 May in 1933 and again because he had become head of the Hamburg Police Department and later became a member of the Hamburg state government. Then Ernst Wilhelm Bohle was appointed head of the AO, which acted as a 43 Gau of the NSDAP.

At a first merger of party members abroad had occurred in Paraguay in 1929. Similar associations were then written in 1930 in Switzerland and the USA. The group in Switzerland was conducted from 1932 until his assassination in 1936 by Wilhelm Gustloff. These groups were officially recognized by the Nazi Party until after the establishment of the Foreign Department: 7 August 1931, the local chapter of Buenos Aires, shortly after the country group Paraguay (20 August 1931) and the local chapter of Rio de Janeiro (5 October 1931). From 1932 until its ban in 1934 was a country group in the Union of South Africa, which enjoyed a great popularity (see Deutschnamibier ) and numerous offices in the former German South West Africa (now Namibia) entertained. Local groups of the NSDAP abroad included at least 25 points more than five party members. Large local groups could be subdivided into blocks of up to ten members of the party.

The task of the NSDAP / AO ideological training and uniform alignment of all party comrades on the interests of the German people and the German nation. Member of AO could only be one who was German Empire, so had a German passport; the German -Russians, the so-called ethnic Germans, who possessed the nationality of the country in which they lived, the entrance was denied the party.

NSDAP / AO in the Middle East

From 1926 built Alfred Hess, a brother of the later Hitler 's deputy Rudolf Hess, the National Group Egypt NSDAP / AO. Since the group was initially not very successful, the Germans threatened by the transfer of power in 1933 with a successful boycott of Egyptian cotton, the main export goods. The Egyptian government under King Fu'ad I then took a U-turn in front of their earlier anti-Nazi policy and condemned the anti- German boycott movement in the country. The Egyptian press presented now in the face of the German threat the Jews as destroyers of the Egyptian economy in the pillory. Opened in 1935, the National Socialists in Cairo a branch of the German News Agency as propaganda and intelligence headquarters. Just three years later Germany had risen to become the second largest importer of Egyptian goods.

In the fall of 1937, the group Beirut AO played an important role in re-engage the Mufti with the Nazis in anticipation of the coming war under their conductor violinist. The Mufti 's confidant Sa'id Fattah Imam signed its corresponding letter to Berlin with "Heil Hitler".

Organization of the NSDAP / AO

  • Gauleiter Ernst Wilhelm Bohle. Personal assistant to Rudolf Tesmann. Adjutant SA Sturmbannführer Willy Gohert
  • Deputy Gauleiter Alfred Hess. Staff chief officer Bernhard Ruberg.

In addition, a selection of the various authorities, called offices whose head bore the official title Gauamtsleiter:

Six countries authorities for the various regions of the world, including

  • Countries Amt V, Africa, entrusted with the management: Gauamtsleiter Willy Grothe
  • Countries Amt VI, Far East, Australia and North America: Rear Admiral aD Menche

In addition, there were the following offices:

  • Maritime Office: Gauamtsleiter Kurt Wermke
  • Office officials
  • Office for Educators
  • Cultural Office: Felix Schmidt
  • Working Group of the woman abroad: Gauenfrauschaftsleiterin Wera Behr
  • Law office until March 1938: Wolfgang Kraneck, then: Dr. Horst magistrate Luebbe, simultaneously Gauführer of the Gau of foreign NSRB
  • Treasury: Gauschatzmeister Theodore Leonhardt
  • Training Office: Gauamtsleiter Woldemar Troebst
  • Office Technology: Hermann Bohle, father of Gauleiter Bohle
  • Gaugericht: Gaurichter Wolfgang Kraneck

Abroad were the line designations Landesgruppenleiter, local leaders and base manager, initially these were also country steward and shop steward.

Selection of some of the country team leader of the NSDAP / AO in different countries and periods

  • Chile ( from 1933 also abroad Commissioner in South America): Willi Köhn: 1932-1938
  • Finland: Hermann Souchon
  • France: Rudolf veil: 1936-1938; From 1940 to 1944. As of June 1940 Consul General and Ambassador Representative in France
  • Greece: Walter Wrede: from 1935
  • UK: Otto Bene: 1934-1937
  • Guatemala: Otto Langmann: 1931-1933
  • Ireland: Adolf Mahr: 1934-1939
  • Italy: Erwin Ettel: 1936-1939; Emil Ehrich: 1939-1944
  • Colombia: Erwin Ettel: 1933-1936
  • Latvia: Ernst Munzinger
  • Austria: Hans Bernard: 1936-1938 under the name " Reich German National Committee of Austria 's international organization of the NSDAP "
  • Poland: Hans Bernard: 1930-1934
  • Switzerland: Wilhelm Gustloff: 1932-1936; Sigismund von Bibra: 1936-1943
  • South African Union ( SAU ): Hermann Bohle
Imperial Germans Intelligence agency Wolfgang G. Schwanitz Integrated Authority File
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