Died 1974-08-08.
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Baldur von Schirach
Baldur Benedikt von Schirach was a German politician who was the leader (Reichsjugendführer) of the Hitler Youth from 1931 to 1940. From 1940 to 1945, he was the Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Vienna.
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Born 9 May 1907 · Died 8 August 1974 · Q76876
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1974· 7 entries
“Power is what spoils people. Yes, it seems to me that the seeking after power is the great danger and the great corruptor of mankind.”
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“A socialist and anti-capitalist attitude is the most salient characteristic of the Young National Socialist Germany.”
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“He who serves our Führer, Adolf Hitler, serves Germany, and he who serves Germany, serves God.”
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“Faust, the Ninth Symphony, and the will of Adolf Hitler are eternal youth and know neither time nor transience.”
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“To us Germans everything is religion. What we do we do not merely with our hands and brains, but with our hearts and souls. This has often become a tragic fate for us.”
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“[Hitler was] a man without measure [i.e. without any sense of measure], a man with great gifts, a man who in some ways could be considered a genius”
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1971· 1 entry
With his eyesight failing, Schirach moved to the Pension Müllen, the former Montroyal hotel in Kröv an der Mosel, which was run by two former BDM leaders Ida and Käthe Müllen
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1968· 1 entry
Moved to an estate in Deibhalde, Trossingen, owned by Fritz Kiehn (1885–1980), a businessman who had been a Nazi member of the Reichstag and an SS-Hauptsturmführer on Heinrich Himmler's personal staff
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1966· 1 entry
Schirach retired to southern Germany
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1958· 1 entry
With financial support from the Daily Mail, to lobby British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd for a reduction of his prison sentence
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1948· 1 entry
Baldur and Rosalind inherited the fortune, but it continued to be managed by the Office of Alien Property Custodian
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1944· 2 entries
And his father's American assets were confiscated in 1947
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Schirach accepted a violin from the State Opera's collection, which was never returned
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1943· 1 entry
Hitler ordered its closure, and Schirach's main cultural advisor [General-Kulturreferent] Walter Thomas, who had previously been criticised by Goebbels, was dismissed
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1942· 2 entries
Won Golden Hitler Youth Badge with Diamonds and Rubies (1942).
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Wilhelm Rüdiger had curated an art exhibition in Weimar, "Young Art in the German Reich" (Junge Kunst im Deutschen Reich)
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1941· 1 entry
Göring had ordered him to stop building air raid shelters
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1940· 3 entries
I told our Führer that I consider my main task to be making this city free of Jews
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Schirach saw action as an infantryman in the French Campaign, for which he was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd Class
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Schirach was appointed Gauleiter of the Reichsgau Vienna; Artur Axmann succeeded him as leader of the Hitler Youth
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1939· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the Star of Romania (1939).
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1938· 1 entry
“The real, great educational act for a people lies in ingraining in youth blind obedience, unshakeable loyalty, unconditional comradeship and absolute reliability.”
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1937· 1 entry
Schirach founded the Adolf Hitler Schools with Robert Ley
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1936· 1 entry
The Hitler Youth was declared the only legal youth organisation
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1934· 2 entries
“Christ ("Christus"), from "The Flag of the Persecuted" (Die Fahne der Verfolgten, 1934), pg 51.”
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In the small town of Wassenberg, Catholic Boy Scouts disrupted the transmission of a speech by Schirach
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1933· 1 entry
Was appointed Jugendführer (Youth Leader) of the German Reich, responsible for all youth organizations in the nation
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1932· 2 entries
Was elected as a deputy to the Reichstag
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Career landmark: Reichsjugendführer (1932–1940).
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1931· 1 entry
Was prosecuted for an anti-Versailles demonstration, and used his court appearance to attack the Weimar Republic
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1929· 2 entries
Was selected as a Reichsredner (national speaker) and was active in Party propaganda activities
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Defeated Kurt Gruber in an internal election, and later convinced Hitler to sideline Gruber
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1925· 1 entry
Also joined the Sturmabteilung (SA) in Weimar
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1924· 1 entry
“s newspaper Der Nationalsozialist. It was set to music by Gerhard Pallman and published in several songbooks. Schirach later described it as one of his”
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1907· 1 entry
Born 1907-05-09.
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