The National Socialist German Students' Union (
German: ''Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund'', abbreviated NSDStB) was founded in 1926 as a division of the
Nazi Party 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'' (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
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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
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on October 10, 1945.
Leaders, 1926–45
*1926–28 Wilhelm Tempel
*1928–32
Baldur von Schirach (from 1931 also ''
Reichsjugendführer'')
*1932–33
Gerd Rühle( de)
*1933–34
Oskar Stäbel( de)
*1934–36
Albert Derichsweiler( de)
*1936–45
Gustav Adolf Scheel (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, later Secretary General of the United Nations, President of Austria.
See also
*
German Student Union
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
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Student wings of political parties in Germany
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Youth wings of fascist parties
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