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Auslands-Organisation
The Nazi Party/Foreign Organization was a branch of the Nazi Party and the 43rd and only non-territorial ("region") of the Party. In German, the organization is referred to as NSDAP/AO, "AO" being the abbreviation of the German compound (linguistics), compound word ("Foreign Organization"). Although would be correctly written as one word, the Nazis chose an obsolete spelling with a hyphen. Nazi Party members who lived outside the German Reich were pooled in this special Party department. On May 1, 1931 the "AO" was founded on the initiative of ''Reich Organization Leader'' (german: Reichsorganisationsleiter) , and its management was assigned to , who resigned from office on May 8, 1933, because he had become head of the Hamburg police authority; he was replaced by Ernst Wilhelm Bohle. Only actual citizens of the German Reich with a German passport could become members of the ''AO''. Persons of German descent, ethnic Germans (german: Volksdeutsche, links=no), who possessed t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Wilhelm Bohle
Ernst Wilhelm Bohle (28 July 1903 – 9 November 1960) was the leader of the Foreign Organization of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP; Nazi Party) from 1933 until 1945. Bohle is unusual as being the only defendant in the Subsequent Nuremberg trials to plead guilty to any charge. Early life Bohle was born in Bradford, England, the son of Hermann Bohle (1876–1943), a college teacher and engineer who emigrated to England. In 1906 Bohle moved to Cape Town, where his father was appointed to a professorship of electrical engineering, and attended a high school there. Bohle studied political sciences and business administration in Cologne and Berlin and graduated in business management at the ''Handelshochschule'', Berlin, in December 1923. He married Gertrud Bachmann on 14 November 1925. Bohle was employed as branch manager and agent in the import-export business for several enterprises in the Rheinland from 1924 until 1930 and established and thereafter directed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |