Helmut Möckel (politician)

Helmut Möckel
Helmut Möckel
Stabsführer of the Hitler Youth
Preceded by	Hartmann Lauterbacher
Succeeded by	Kurt Petter
Personal details
Born	21 June 1909; Vielau, Saxony
Died	15 February 1945 (aged 35); Darmstadt, Hesse
Political party	National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP)
Profession	Youth leader, politician
Awards	War Merit Cross 2nd class with swords; War Merit Cross 1st class with swords; Knight's Cross of the War Merit Cross with swords

Helmut Möckel (21 June 1909 – 15 February 1945) was a German youth leader and politician.

Background

Möckel was born in Vielau near Zwickau in Saxony. After completing his school education he studied education and economics at Technische Universität Dresden and political science at University of Vienna. He helped found the National Socialist Teachers League in 1929 and joined the Nazi Party in 1930. From 1930 to 1933 he was a member of the SS. He became a full-time field leader of the Hitler Youth in 1933 and staff director in 1935.[1]

On 16 July 1937, Möckel became chief of the Office of Procurement for the Reich Youth Leadership. In April 1938 he was proposed, unsuccessfully, for membership of the Reichstag. He returned to Saxony to become a Hitler Youth field guide and was promoted to Gebietsführer for Saxony in August 1938.[2] During his time as a Hitler Youth leader he wrote books on the subject of youth training.[3][4]

World War II

At the outbreak of World War II in 1939, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and trained as a fighter pilot. However, in August 1940 he was recalled to Berlin where he was appointed Stabsführer of the Hitler Youth and deputy to Reichsjugendführer Baldur von Schirach. In October 1940 he was appointed by von Schirach to oversee the day-to-day operation of Kinderlandverschickung ("relocation of children to the countryside") from major cities at risk of aerial bombing.

In November 1942, Möckel became a member of the Reichstag, nominally representing Breslau (now Wroclaw in Poland).[5] On 11 February 1945 he was awarded the Ritterkreuz des Kriegsverdienstkreuzes mit Schwertern (Knight's Cross of the War Merit Cross with swords).

Death

Möckel was killed in a car accident in Darmstadt on 15 February 1945 whilst recruiting Hitler Youth volunteers for Operation Werwolf.[6] There were rumours that his death was faked and he had fled to Spain, but this has never been substantiated.[6]

He was succeeded as Stabsführer by Kurt Petter.

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gollark: Being able to program microcontrollers is mildly cool, but it also means I have to wait for an electronics assembler, they can't interact with external components, and they're very irritating to debug (apparently *deliberately?!*). CC computers boot fairly quickly anyway.

gollark: CC workflow for setting up a computer to do things:- (auto)craft computer- place computer- write code/download code onto computer as startupOC workflow:- figure out what cards/other components it needs- queue autocrafting for everything- wait a while while autocrafting runs, and possibly converts some coal into diamonds- pull autocrafted stuff out of ME network, put into computers, be sure to get the right items- find openOS disk, disk drive- install openOS- write/download code- either move code to `boot` or work out how `rc` works

References

Michael Rademacher (2000). Handbuch der NSDAP-Gaue 1928-1945. Rademacher. p. 225.
"Das Junge Deutschland" (6). Junge Deutschland. 1938: 500. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
Helmut Möckel (1936). Zur Neuordnung der staatlichen Jugendpflege in Sachsen. Hitlerjugend.
Helmut Möckel (1938). Das Klein-Heim der Hitler-Jugend. Otto von Holten.
Joachim Lilla; Martin Döring; Andreas Schulz (2004). Statisten in Uniform: Die Mitglieder des Reichstags 1933–1945. Droste. ISBN 3-7700-5254-4.
Alexander Perry Biddiscombe (1998). Werwolf!: The History of the National Socialist Guerrilla Movement, 1944-1946. University of Toronto Press. p. 68. ISBN 0802008623.

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[1] Michael Rademacher (2000). Handbuch der NSDAP-Gaue 1928-1945. Rademacher. p. 225.

[2] "Das Junge Deutschland" (6). Junge Deutschland. 1938: 500. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[3] Helmut Möckel (1936). Zur Neuordnung der staatlichen Jugendpflege in Sachsen. Hitlerjugend.

[4] Helmut Möckel (1938). Das Klein-Heim der Hitler-Jugend. Otto von Holten.

[5] Joachim Lilla; Martin Döring; Andreas Schulz (2004). Statisten in Uniform: Die Mitglieder des Reichstags 1933–1945. Droste. ISBN 3-7700-5254-4.

[Biddiscombe-6] Alexander Perry Biddiscombe (1998). Werwolf!: The History of the National Socialist Guerrilla Movement, 1944-1946. University of Toronto Press. p. 68. ISBN 0802008623.