Reinhold Muchow

Reinhold Muchow (21 December 1905 in Berlin - 12 September 1933 in Bacharach) was a Nazi Party politician.

A native of the gritty Neukölln district of Berlin, Muchow was one of the Alter Kämpfer of the Nazi Party.[1] He became leader of the Greater Berlin Gau 1 in 1925 and here he established the Muchow Plan, a cell-based structure for Nazi Party organisation on a local level which proved important in the growth of the party.[1] Muchow's organisational talents impressed Joseph Goebbels and in 1928 he was given charge of organisation for the entire city where his plan became the standard for party structure across Germany.[1] In fact Muchow's structure was strongly influenced by the cell structure of the Communist Party.[2] He was later sent to the German Labour Front where he revamped that group's organisation, setting up fourteen new units.[1] He died in an accident in the Rhineland in September 1933 and was widely mourned by the Nazi hierarchy.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Louis Leo Snyder, Encyclopedia of the Third Reich, Ware: Wordsworth Editions, 1998, p. 233
  2. ^ Detlef Mühlberger, Hitler's Voice: The Völkischer Beobachter, 1920-1933. Organisation & Development of the Nazi Party, Volume 1, Peter Lang, 2004, p. 287