1. Friedrich Rudolph Reinhardt was an official in the Nazi Party and in the government of the Third Reich, most notably, State Secretary in the German Finance Ministry.
19 Facts About Fritz Reinhardt
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The son of a bookbinder, Reinhardt was born in Ilmenau.
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Fritz Reinhardt was educated in Ilmenau through high school, studied trade and commerce, and worked in business in Germany and abroad.
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At the outbreak of World War I, Fritz Reinhardt was in Riga, Livonia, and was interned by Russian forces.
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Fritz Reinhardt ended up spending the war years in an internment camp in Siberia as an enemy alien, only returning to Germany in 1918.
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Fritz Reinhardt was a member of the Deutsch-Volkischen Bund, a right-wing nationalist organization, and in 1923 he joined the Nazi Party before it was banned in the aftermath of the Beer Hall Putsch.
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In 1928 Fritz Reinhardt established the Correspondence Courses for Party Speakers at the Fernhandelschule.
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From 1929 to 1933, Fritz Reinhardt was the leader of the Rednerschule, the Nazi's official training school for Party speakers in Herrsching, and some 6000 party members eventually received propagandistic training there.
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In September 1930, Fritz Reinhardt became a member of the Reichstag for electoral constituency 24.
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Fritz Reinhardt took on the leading role in the NSDAP in financial issues, serving as the head of the Nazi Party faction on the budget committee and the Reich debt committee in the Reichstag.
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From 27 April 1930 to 9 December 1932, Fritz Reinhardt was a department head in the Reichspropagandaleiter II office in the Party's national leadership offices at the Brown House in Munich.
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Fritz Reinhardt was a member of the Sturmabteilung, the Nazi paramilitary organization.
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On 1 April 1933, after the Nazi assumption of power, and due to Adolf Hitler's intervention, Fritz Reinhardt became State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Finance under Johann Ludwig Graf Schwerin von Krosigk succeeding Arthur Zarden, whose incumbency violated Nazi policy, as he was Jewish.
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Fritz Reinhardt would hold this powerful position right through to the end of the regime in 1945.
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At its inaugural meeting on 3 October 1933, Fritz Reinhardt became a member of the Academy for German Law and on 17 November was made a member of its prasidium as well as chairman of its Committee for Finance and Tax Law.
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Fritz Reinhardt could count on the Nazi Party's and Hitler's backing, which was why he held such an influential position from the outset.
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Fritz Reinhardt was publisher of the Deutsche Steuerzeitung from 1934 to 1945 which, along with all his other publications, he made required reading for all finance officials.
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Fritz Reinhardt was captured by the Allies in May 1945, and on 17 June 1949 he was classified as a Hauptschuldiger at a Denazification proceeding, and sentenced to four years in labour prison.
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Fritz Reinhardt worked as a tax adviser in West Germany, but otherwise was not to be seen in public life and died in Regensburg in 1969.