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Rudolf Zilkens (* October 18th, 1899 in Köln-Ehrenfeld - † 1948 in Sowjetunion) was a SA-Ortsgruppenvorsitzende in the NSDAP during World War II.

Youth and Education
Zilkens was the twelfth child of the famous Rhine politician Franz Joseph Zilkens (1847-1915). This was a city councilor in Cologne for the German Center Party and was due to his social position as a brickyard owner and landlords as "the uncrowned king of Ehrenfeld". [3] In particular the development Ehrenfeld to a residential Prestige Franz Zilkens's board ( Ehrenfeldgürtel, Eichendorffstraße ).

Rudolf Zilkens reported in 1917 voluntarily to the front of the First World War and was immediately assigned to a regiment squad. When fighting in Reims, he was severely wounded, so that it in a to 1919 the hospital had to stay.

From 1919 Zilkens studied medicine, arts and political science, one after the other before becoming a navvy, an apprentice, director and journalist worked.

Political activity
Politically Zilkens began to operate after the First World War in circles of the extreme political right after he temporarily the Stahlhelm Kampfbund had listened, he joined the Nazi Party, for which he developed an extensive work as a political orator advertising. He moved to eating and speaking as a "kingdom of speakers' [4] of the NSDAP in five years 1500 times in meetings [5] and devoted himself according to own statements to the propaganda "struggle for workers 'soul'. [6] In his Westphalian home he brought it in Nazi circles called "Drummers of the Ruhr "one, with whom he also knew his works. In March 1929, the refunded Duisburg police chief Heinrich Meyer (SPD) according to the criminal complaint Republic Protection Act against Zilkens because this supposedly the Prussian Minister of the Interior Albert Grzesinski had insulted. [7]

Zilkens was next NSDAP Gauleiter Josef Terboven one of the major Nazi orator and politician of the Rhineland [8] and was a "prime example" for the National Socialist advertising in the workforce. [9] As this advertising was going on, portrays the report of a KPD -Genossen for its Ruhr district government of November 1932:

"In an Essene local local local chapter of the chairman of the NSDAP, Zilkens [...] Communists had invited. To gain their trust, he initially worked on the Communist idea. While existed principal differences between the two views, but overall we have also many similarities. The fight thought is common to both movements. However, it should be considered as utopia to want to implement the objectives of the working class on international routes. Only the National Socialists came as a savior of the working class in question, as their belief was not materialistic. [10] [11] "

Already on December 12, 1930 negotiated a extended trial by jury in Oberhausen against Zilkens because these months had previously announced in a meeting that in the power of the Nazi party heads would roll among others, the Secretary of State Otto Meissner. The police had then dissolved the Assembly. Since Zilkens did not appear at a court hearing, the hearing was adjourned and issued an arrest warrant against Zilkens. [12]

Joseph Goebbels, then Reich propaganda leader of the NSDAP , noted in a speech Zilkens in July 1931 in his diary:

" Dresden . On the velodrome. Than 40 000 people. Impressive and captivating demonstration. Only speaks Zilkens food. Very weak and stupid. Too cluttered with "joke". How embarassing! Then I talk one hour. [...] Late in the evening Zilkens told me that Goering and Auwi rush at the Ruhr against me. Let them. [13] [14] "

In October 1931 Zilkens cried a left-minded heckler at a Nazi rally to:

"We are you in the Third Reich grind the eggs that you hear whistling in heaven the angels. [15] "

Also In 1931, as a local leader of food including "permanent carousing," "moral crimes", "Zilkens Under razing of reputed Assembly funds 'and' Zechschulden ". Why do 46 NSDAP members seceded in the same year in food from him and the party and a local chapter of the "Revolutionary NSDAP" (also called "Black Front") under Otto Strasser founded. [16]

Zilkens was involved in numerous brawls. So it was the beginning of 1932 as a discussion speaker at a Communist Party -Versammlung in Duisburg depressed and razor several times. [5]

As a political editor of the Nazi newspaper The New Front, [17] Zilkens came in May 1932 in the Prussian Landtag , which he until 1933 belonged. [18] was found to Zilkens lawsuit in late October 1932 since October 22, 1932, he in Osnabrück the Chancellor Franz von Papen have offended. [19] After serving as a member of parliament Zilkens was archivist of the National Socialist parliamentary group in the Prussian Landtag. [5]

As Nazi Party functionary and " age fighter "of the party [20] was Zilkens local group leader, group leader, Gaupropagandaleiter [5] and City Council in Essen. He was also member of the Reichstag and stood for No. 1 on the list of candidates for the constituency of the NSDAP Dusseldorf-West. [21]

After the " seizure of power "Zilkens was Head of the Reich Propaganda Office in Berlin and fell in because it was rumored that he had drunken bad in front of a hotel the guests behaved. [22] Rudolf Zilkens died in 1948 in a POW camp in the Soviet Union. His wife Eva Josephine Zilkens (born 1899, born Annen) died in 1986 Nowra ( Australia ). Both had besides the namesake son, yet another child. [1]

Literary activity
As a writer Zilkens published a series of writings in the spirit of the blood-and-soil sealing were: His novel The Sounding Heart (1933) has referred to as the "first major Nazi creed novel". [23] The preface his book German songs of freedom, love and death (1934) he devoted Georg Sluyterman of Langeweyde who illustrated the book with thirteen woodcuts and the title screen. In this preface he writes revealing:

"[...] That even our big time like no other has a right that the youth singing in it, but because right now the youth again found a future. But I want these young people, for which we have fought and bled, singing songs that emerged from our time and the spirit of our struggle. [24] "

After the Second World War Zilkens only found little response. In the Soviet occupation zone most of his writings were the list of proscribed literature set. [25] [26] [27]

Awards

 * Ehrenzeichen des 9. November 1923 („Blutorden“)