Schirach, Baldur von#
b. Berlin (Germany), May 9, 1905, d. Kroev (Germany), Aug. 8, 1974, politician (National Socialist). As Reich youth leader of the NSDAP 1931-1940 and Youth Leader of the German Reich 1933-1940 was head of all Nazi youth organisations. 1940-1945 Gauleiter and Reich Governor of Vienna, where he pursued an independent cultural policy which was not accepted by Berlin. In 1946 sentenced to 20 years imprisonment at the Nuremberg trials in 1946 for participating in the deportation of Jews; served his term at Berlin-Spandau.
Publication#
Ich glaubte an Hitler, 1967.Literature#
J. v. Lang, B. v. S., der Mann, der Deutschlands Jugend erzog, 1991; H. Giesecke, Hitlers Paedagogen, 1993; L. Fischer, Bekenntnis oder Verschleierung? Die Memoiren A. Speers und B. v. S. im Spiegel der Forschung, doctoral thesis, Vienna 1998; G. Knopp, Hitlers Helfer, 1998.