The National Socialist German Students' Union (
German: ''Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund'', abbreviated NSDStB) was founded in 1926 as a division of the
Nazi Party
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with the mission of integrating University-level education and academic life within the framework of the
Nazi
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worldview. Organized (as with other departments of the Nazi Party) strictly in accord with the ''
Führerprinzip
The (; German for 'leader principle') prescribed the fundamental basis of political authority in the Government of Nazi Germany. This principle can be most succinctly understood to mean that "the Führer's word is above all written law" and th ...
'' (or "leader principle") as well as the principle of ''
Machtdistanz'' (or "power distance"), the NSDStB housed its members in so-called ''Kameradschaftshäusern'' (or "Fellowship Houses"), and (from 1930) had its members decked out in classic brown shirts and its own distinctive
Swastika emblems.
After Germany's defeat in World War II, the Nazi Party along with its divisions and affiliated organisations were declared "criminal organizations" and banned by the
Allied Control Council on October 10, 1945.
Leaders, 1926–45
*1926–28 Wilhelm Tempel
*1928–32
Baldur von Schirach (from 1931 also ''
Reichsjugendführer
''Reichsjugendführer'' ("National Youth Leader") was the highest paramilitary rank of the Hitler Youth. On 30 October 1931, Hitler appointed Baldur von Schirach as the Reich Youth Leader of the Nazi Party. In 1933, after the Nazi seizure of st ...
'')
*1932–33
Gerd Rühle( de)
*1933–34
Oskar Stäbel( de)
*1934–36
Albert Derichsweiler
Albert may refer to:
Companies
* Albert (supermarket), a supermarket chain in the Czech Republic
* Albert Heijn, a supermarket chain in the Netherlands
* Albert Market, a street market in The Gambia
* Albert Productions, a record label
* Alber ...
( de)
*1936–45
Gustav Adolf Scheel
Gustav Adolf Scheel (22 November 1907 – 25 March 1979) was a German physician and Nazi Party official. He served as a "multifunctionary" in Nazi Germany, including posts as the Reich Student Leader leading both the National Socialist German Stu ...
(as ''
Reichsstudentenführer'' Scheel was also ''Führer'' of the ''
Deutschen Studentenschaft'')
[Andreas Raith]
''Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund (NSDStB), 1926-1945''
in: Bavarian history dictionary, 28 Feb 2011. Here: p.4
Other notable members
*
Kurt Waldheim
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, later Secretary General of the United Nations, President of Austria.
See also
*
German Student Union
The German Student Union (german: Deutsche Studentenschaft, abbreviated ''DSt'') from 1919 until 1945, was the merger of the general student committees of all German universities, including Danzig, Austria and the former German universities in ...
References
Further reading
*Anselm Faust: ''Der Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Studentenbund. Studenten und Nationalsozialismus in der Weimarer Republik'', 2. Bde. Schwann Düsseldorf 1973 and
*Michael Grüttner: ''Studenten im Dritten Reich'', Schöningh Paderborn 1995
* Andreas Raith
''Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund (NSDStB)'' in: The Lexicon of Bavarian History (8 January 2007)
*
''Die Deutsche Studentenschaft Anfang der 1930er Jahre (1928-1933)''*
Dokumentation der Bücherverbrennung 1933 in der Universitätsstadt Göttingen unter der Federführung des NSDStB''Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund: Studentische Organisation der NSDAP (1926-1945)''*
Historical youth organisations based in Germany
1926 establishments in Germany
Student organizations established in 1926
Organizations disestablished in 1945
Student societies in Germany
Nazi Party organizations
Student wings of political parties in Germany
Education in Nazi Germany
Youth wings of fascist parties
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