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/></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-top:0.2em;">Meinberg, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1938</span></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Reich Chairman<br /><i><a href="/wiki/Reichsn%C3%A4hrstand" title="Reichsnährstand">Reichsnährstand</a></i></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />June 1933 – April 1937</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Position created</i></td><link 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href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Chairman<br /><i><a href="/wiki/Deutsche_Reichspartei" title="Deutsche Reichspartei">Deutsche Reichspartei</a></i></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />25 September 1955 – July 1960</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heinrich_Kunstmann&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Heinrich Kunstmann (page does not exist)">Heinrich Kunstmann</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Kunstmann" class="extiw" title="de:Heinrich Kunstmann">de</a>]</span></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">1 March 1898<br /><a href="/wiki/Methler" title="Methler">Wasserkurl</a>, <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Westphalia" title="Province of Westphalia">Province of Westphalia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Prussia" title="Kingdom of Prussia">Kingdom of Prussia</a>, <a href="/wiki/German_Empire" title="German Empire">German Empire</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">8 February 1973 (aged 74)<br /><a href="/wiki/Kamen" title="Kamen">Kamen</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Rhine-Westphalia" title="North Rhine-Westphalia">North Rhine-Westphalia</a>, <a href="/wiki/West_Germany" title="West Germany">West Germany</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" 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class="infobox-label">Allegiance</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Flag_of_Germany_%281867%E2%80%931918%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany_%281867%E2%80%931918%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Flag_of_Germany_%281867%E2%80%931918%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany_%281867%E2%80%931918%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Flag_of_Germany_%281867%E2%80%931918%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Germany_%281867%E2%80%931918%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/German_Empire" title="German Empire">German Empire</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Branch/service</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Imperial_German_Army" title="Imperial German Army">Imperial German Army</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years of service</th><td class="infobox-data">1916–1919</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Unit</th><td class="infobox-data">Pioneer Battalion 15</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Battles/wars</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Iron_Cross" title="Iron Cross">Iron Cross</a>, 2nd class</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Wilhelm Meinberg</b> (1 March 1898 – 8 February 1973) was a German <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Party" title="Nazi Party">Nazi Party</a> politician and agricultural expert who served as the head of the <i><a href="/wiki/Reichsn%C3%A4hrstand" title="Reichsnährstand">Reichsnährstand</a></i> and on the board of directors of the industrial conglomerate <a href="/wiki/Reichswerke_Hermann_G%C3%B6ring" title="Reichswerke Hermann Göring">Reichswerke Hermann Göring</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a>. He was also an SS-<i><a href="/wiki/Gruppenf%C3%BChrer" title="Gruppenführer">Gruppenführer</a></i>. After the war, he headed a <a href="/wiki/Neo-Nazi" class="mw-redirect" title="Neo-Nazi">neo-Nazi</a> Party in <a href="/wiki/West_Germany" title="West Germany">West Germany</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wilhelm_Meinberg&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Meinberg was born in Wasserkurl (today, part of <a href="/wiki/Methler" title="Methler">Methler</a>). He attended the <i><a href="/wiki/Gymnasium_(Germany)" title="Gymnasium (Germany)">Realgymnasium</a></i> in <a href="/wiki/Unna" title="Unna">Unna</a>, obtained his <a href="/wiki/Abitur" title="Abitur">Abitur</a> and completed an agricultural <a href="/wiki/Apprenticeship" title="Apprenticeship">apprenticeship</a> in <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Brandenburg" title="Province of Brandenburg">Brandenburg</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mecklenburg" title="Mecklenburg">Mecklenburg</a> before enlisting in the <a href="/wiki/Imperial_German_Army" title="Imperial German Army">Imperial German Army</a> in 1916 and serving with <a href="/wiki/Pioneer_(military)" title="Pioneer (military)">Pioneer</a> Battalion 15 in the <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a>. He was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Iron_Cross" title="Iron Cross">Iron Cross</a> 2nd class and was taken prisoner by the British near the war's end. Released from captivity in October 1919, in November he became a member of the <a href="/wiki/Deutschv%C3%B6lkischer_Schutz-_und_Trutzbund" title="Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund">Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund</a>, the largest and most active <a href="/wiki/Antisemitic" class="mw-redirect" title="Antisemitic">antisemitic</a> organization in the <a href="/wiki/Weimar_Republic" title="Weimar Republic">Weimar Republic</a>. He also joined the conservative <a href="/wiki/German_National_People%27s_Party" title="German National People's Party">German National People's Party</a> and, in 1923, became a farmer in Wasserkurl and founded a <i><a href="/wiki/Stahlhelm,_Bund_der_Frontsoldaten" class="mw-redirect" title="Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten">Stahlhelm</a></i> group of war veterans, which took part in the fighting during the <a href="/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Ruhr" title="Occupation of the Ruhr">occupation of the Ruhr</a> in the same year.<sup id="cite_ref-DDF_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DDF-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Nazi_Party_career">Nazi Party career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wilhelm_Meinberg&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Nazi Party career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Meinberg joined the <a href="/wiki/Sturmabteilung" title="Sturmabteilung">SA</a> in 1929 and on 1 April 1930 he joined the <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Party" title="Nazi Party">Nazi Party</a> (membership number 218,582), into which he brought his <i>Stahlhelm</i> group. As a relatively early member of the Party, he would later be awarded the <a href="/wiki/Golden_Party_Badge" title="Golden Party Badge">Golden Party Badge</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchiffer_Publishing_Ltd.200011_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchiffer_Publishing_Ltd.200011-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He became the agricultural policy expert for the <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_Nazi_Germany" title="Administrative divisions of Nazi Germany">Gaue</a> of <a href="/wiki/Gau_Westphalia-North" title="Gau Westphalia-North">North</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gau_Westphalia-South" title="Gau Westphalia-South">South Westphalia</a>, as a representative of the Party's Office for Agricultural Policy, headquartered in <a href="/wiki/Munich" title="Munich">Munich</a> and headed by <a href="/wiki/Walther_Darr%C3%A9" class="mw-redirect" title="Walther Darré">Walther Darré</a>. Meinberg became a board member of the <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Westphalia" title="Province of Westphalia">Westphalia</a> Chamber of Agriculture in 1931 and was elected as a member of the <a href="/wiki/Prussian_Landtag" class="mw-redirect" title="Prussian Landtag">Prussian Landtag</a> in April 1932.<sup id="cite_ref-DDF_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DDF-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following the <a href="/wiki/Nazi_seizure_of_power" class="mw-redirect" title="Nazi seizure of power">Nazi seizure of power</a>, Meinberg was appointed President of the <a href="/wiki/Agricultural_League" title="Agricultural League">Agricultural League</a> (<i>Reichs-Landbund</i>) in March 1933. On 6 May 1933, <a href="/wiki/Ferdinand_von_L%C3%BCninck" title="Ferdinand von Lüninck">Ferdinand von Lüninck</a>, the Westphalian <i><a href="/wiki/Oberpr%C3%A4sident" title="Oberpräsident">Oberpräsident</a></i>, appointed him State Commissioner for the Chamber of Agriculture. Meinberg became a co-founder and, from June 1933 to April 1937, <i>Reichsobmann</i> (Reich Chairman) and <i>Leiter der Reichsverwaltungshauptabteilung</i> (Head of the Reich Administration Main Department) of the <i><a href="/wiki/Reichsn%C3%A4hrstand" title="Reichsnährstand">Reichsnährstand</a></i> (Reich Food Estate), working directly under Darré in his capacity as the <i>Reichsbauernführer</i> (Reich Peasant Leader).<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i>Reichsnährstand</i> absorbed all other farmers' organizations, including the Agricultural League, and became the sole regulator of German agriculture, controlling supply and setting prices.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEZentnerBedürftig1997771–772_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEZentnerBedürftig1997771–772-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 20 July 1933, Meinberg became leader of the Westphalia Farmers' Federation and on 20 February 1934, a member of the Reich Farmers' Council. On 11 July 1933, Prussian <a href="/wiki/Minister_President" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister President">Minister President</a> <a href="/wiki/Hermann_G%C3%B6ring" title="Hermann Göring">Hermann Göring</a> appointed him to the recently reconstituted <a href="/wiki/Prussian_State_Council_(Nazi_Germany)" title="Prussian State Council (Nazi Germany)">Prussian State Council</a>, where he served until the fall of the Nazi regime.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELilla2005223,_298_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELilla2005223,_298-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Meinberg joined the <a href="/wiki/Schutzstaffel" title="Schutzstaffel">SS</a> (SS member number 99,436) on 7 October 1933 as an SS-<i><a href="/wiki/Sturmbannf%C3%BChrer" title="Sturmbannführer">Sturmbannführer</a></i> and eventually attained the rank of SS-<i><a href="/wiki/Gruppenf%C3%BChrer" title="Gruppenführer">Gruppenführer</a></i> on 30 January 1942.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchiffer_Publishing_Ltd.200011_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchiffer_Publishing_Ltd.200011-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition, Meinberg was elected as a deputy to the <i><a href="/wiki/Reichstag_(Nazi_Germany)" title="Reichstag (Nazi Germany)">Reichstag</a></i> at the <a href="/wiki/November_1933_German_federal_election" class="mw-redirect" title="November 1933 German federal election">November 1933 German federal election</a> from electoral constituency 18 (South Westphalia). He was reelected in 1936 and 1938, and served until he resigned his mandate in 1943.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1936, Darré, in his capacity as <a href="/wiki/Reich_Ministry_of_Food_and_Agriculture" title="Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture">Reich Food and Agriculture Minister</a>, appointed Meinberg his personal Special Representative for questions of food policy and market organization in the ministry. However, Meinberg intrigued to replace Darré as Reich Peasant Leader while he was on a leave of absence, and a <a href="/wiki/Court_of_honor" class="mw-redirect" title="Court of honor">court of honor</a> proceeding was instituted against him. Due to the intervention of Göring, this action was suspended for a year and then dismissed, as Meinberg had left Darré's ministry when Göring appointed him to the board of directors of <a href="/wiki/Reichswerke_Hermann_G%C3%B6ring" title="Reichswerke Hermann Göring">Reichswerke Hermann Göring</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMünkel1996106,_n32_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMünkel1996106,_n32-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Meinberg now changed his focus from agriculture to industry and the war economy, remaining on the industrial conglomerate's board from 1937 to 1945 and served as the deputy to <a href="/wiki/Paul_Pleiger" title="Paul Pleiger">Paul Pleiger</a>, the managing director.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWysocki199265_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWysocki199265-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He served on the boards of eight subsidiary and affiliated industries of the massive combine. Meinberg also was a member of the supervisory board at <a href="/wiki/Dresdner_Bank" title="Dresdner Bank">Dresdner Bank</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Allianz" title="Allianz">Allianz</a> insurance company.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was appointed a <i><a href="/wiki/Wehrwirtschaftsf%C3%BChrer" title="Wehrwirtschaftsführer">Wehrwirtschaftsführer</a></i> (Military Economics Leader) in June 1940. He also sat on the military economics council of the Reich Chamber of Commerce and the military economics committee of the Lower Saxony Chamber of Commerce in <a href="/wiki/Hanover" title="Hanover">Hanover</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWysocki1992479_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWysocki1992479-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1941, Göring, in his capacity as the <a href="/wiki/Plenipotentiary" title="Plenipotentiary">Plenipotentiary</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Four-Year_Plan" class="mw-redirect" title="Four-Year Plan">Four-Year Plan</a>, appointed Meinberg to be the <i>Sonderbeauftragter</i> (Special Representative) for coal transport.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKlee2007400_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKlee2007400-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Post-war_life">Post-war life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wilhelm_Meinberg&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Post-war life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After the end of the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a>, Meinberg was held in British and American captivity for 22 months. He then returned to work as a farmer. According to an investigation by the British secret service, in the post-war period he was a close collaborator of the former <a href="/wiki/State_Secretary" class="mw-redirect" title="State Secretary">State Secretary</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Reich_Ministry_of_Propaganda" class="mw-redirect" title="Reich Ministry of Propaganda">Reich Ministry of Propaganda</a>, <a href="/wiki/Werner_Naumann" title="Werner Naumann">Werner Naumann</a>, who organized a group of former-Nazis known as the <a href="/wiki/Naumann_Circle" title="Naumann Circle">Naumann Circle</a>, to infiltrate the <a href="/wiki/Free_Democratic_Party_(Germany)" title="Free Democratic Party (Germany)">Free Democratic Party</a> of <a href="/wiki/West_Germany" title="West Germany">West Germany</a>. In 1953 Meinberg became a member of the <a href="/wiki/Neo-Nazi" class="mw-redirect" title="Neo-Nazi">neo-Nazi</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Deutsche_Reichspartei" title="Deutsche Reichspartei">Deutsche Reichspartei</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKlee2007400_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKlee2007400-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was elected chairman of its executive board on 29 November of that year, and was elected chairman of the party on 25 September 1955, an office which he retained until July 1960.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENew_York_Times,_26_September_1955_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENew_York_Times,_26_September_1955-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under his leadership, the party turned even further to the right, calling for West Germany's withdrawal from <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Common_Market" class="mw-redirect" title="Common Market">Common Market</a>, and advocating the creation of an authoritarian, one-party state similar to the <a href="/wiki/Third_Reich" class="mw-redirect" title="Third Reich">Third Reich</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Meinberg ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the <i><a href="/wiki/Bundestag" title="Bundestag">Bundestag</a></i> in the 1953, 1957 and 1961 federal elections. After the <a href="/wiki/National_Democratic_Party_of_Germany" title="National Democratic Party of Germany">National Democratic Party of Germany</a> was founded in November 1964, he became a board member and editor of the party newspaper <a href="/w/index.php?title=Deutsche_Nachrichten&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Deutsche Nachrichten (page does not exist)">Deutsche Nachrichten</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Nachrichten" class="extiw" title="de:Deutsche Nachrichten">de</a>]</span>. Meinberg died in February 1973. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="SS_ranks">SS ranks</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wilhelm_Meinberg&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: SS ranks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable float-right"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2">SS ranks<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr> <th>Date </th> <th>Rank </th></tr> <tr> <td>7 October 1933 </td> <td>SS-<i><a href="/wiki/Sturmbannf%C3%BChrer" title="Sturmbannführer">Sturmbannführer</a></i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>9 November 1933 </td> <td>SS-<i><a href="/wiki/Obersturmbannf%C3%BChrer" title="Obersturmbannführer">Obersturmbannführer</a></i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>20 April 1934 </td> <td>SS-<i><a href="/wiki/Standartenf%C3%BChrer" title="Standartenführer">Standartenführer</a></i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>9 November 1934 </td> <td>SS-<i><a href="/wiki/Oberf%C3%BChrer" title="Oberführer">Oberführer</a></i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1 January 1935 </td> <td>SS-<i><a href="/wiki/Brigadef%C3%BChrer" title="Brigadeführer">Brigadeführer</a></i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>30 January 1942 </td> <td>SS-<i><a href="/wiki/Gruppenf%C3%BChrer" title="Gruppenführer">Gruppenführer</a></i> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wilhelm_Meinberg&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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Res. 146 ..., June 22, 1945"</a>. United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs. 1945. pp. 821–822<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">26 June</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Elimination+of+German+Resources+for+War%2C+Hearings+Pursuant+to+S.Res.+107%2C+S.+Res.+146+...%2C+June+22%2C+1945&rft.pages=821-822&rft.pub=United+States.+Congress.+Senate.+Committee+on+Military+Affairs&rft.date=1945&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D_qDRCupSGEkC%26dq%3D%2522WIlhelm%2BMeinberg%2522%2BChairman%26pg%3DPA808&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilhelm+Meinberg" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWysocki1992479-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWysocki1992479_10-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWysocki1992">Wysocki 1992</a>, p. 479.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEKlee2007400-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKlee2007400_11-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKlee2007400_11-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFKlee2007">Klee 2007</a>, p. 400.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTENew_York_Times,_26_September_1955-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENew_York_Times,_26_September_1955_12-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFNew_York_Times,_26_September_1955">New York Times, 26 September 1955</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCromwell1964" class="citation journal cs1">Cromwell, Richard S. (June 1964). "Rightist Extremism in Postwar West Germany". <i>The Western Political Quarterly</i>. <b>17</b> (2): 288. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1177%2F106591296401700208">10.1177/106591296401700208</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:154825417">154825417</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Western+Political+Quarterly&rft.atitle=Rightist+Extremism+in+Postwar+West+Germany&rft.volume=17&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=288&rft.date=1964-06&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1177%2F106591296401700208&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A154825417%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.aulast=Cromwell&rft.aufirst=Richard+S.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilhelm+Meinberg" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.dws-xip.com/reich/biografie/1937/1937.html">SS Seniority List, 1 December 1937, pp.12–13, #70</a> Retrieved 25 June 2023.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wilhelm_Meinberg&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKlee2007" class="citation book cs1">Klee, Ernst (2007). <i>Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945</i>. Frankfurt-am-Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-596-16048-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-3-596-16048-8"><bdi>978-3-596-16048-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Das+Personenlexikon+zum+Dritten+Reich.+Wer+war+was+vor+und+nach+1945&rft.place=Frankfurt-am-Main&rft.pub=Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag&rft.date=2007&rft.isbn=978-3-596-16048-8&rft.aulast=Klee&rft.aufirst=Ernst&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilhelm+Meinberg" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLilla2005" class="citation book cs1">Lilla, Joachim (2005). <i>Der Preußische Staatsrat 1921–1933: Ein biographisches Handbuch</i>. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-770-05271-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-3-770-05271-4"><bdi>978-3-770-05271-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Der+Preu%C3%9Fische+Staatsrat+1921%E2%80%931933%3A+Ein+biographisches+Handbuch&rft.place=D%C3%BCsseldorf&rft.pub=Droste+Verlag&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=978-3-770-05271-4&rft.aulast=Lilla&rft.aufirst=Joachim&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilhelm+Meinberg" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMünkel1996" class="citation book cs1">Münkel, Daniela (1996). <i>Nationalsozialistische Agrarpolitik und Bauernalltag</i>. Campus Forschung. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-593-35602-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-3-593-35602-0"><bdi>978-3-593-35602-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Nationalsozialistische+Agrarpolitik+und+Bauernalltag&rft.pub=Campus+Forschung&rft.date=1996&rft.isbn=978-3-593-35602-0&rft.aulast=M%C3%BCnkel&rft.aufirst=Daniela&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilhelm+Meinberg" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNew_York_Times,_26_September_1955" class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1955/09/26/archives/exnazi-heads-reich-party.html">"Ex-Nazi Heads Reich Party"</a>. <i>The New York Times</i>. 26 September 1955. p. 9.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Ex-Nazi+Heads+Reich+Party&rft.pages=9&rft.date=1955-09-26&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1955%2F09%2F26%2Farchives%2Fexnazi-heads-reich-party.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilhelm+Meinberg" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSchiffer_Publishing_Ltd.2000" class="citation book cs1">Schiffer Publishing Ltd., ed. (2000). <i>SS Officers List: SS-Standartenführer to SS-Oberstgruppenführer (As of 30 January 1942)</i>. Schiffer Military History Publishing. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7643-1061-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-7643-1061-5"><bdi>0-7643-1061-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=SS+Officers+List%3A+SS-Standartenf%C3%BChrer+to+SS-Oberstgruppenf%C3%BChrer+%28As+of+30+January+1942%29&rft.pub=Schiffer+Military+History+Publishing&rft.date=2000&rft.isbn=0-7643-1061-5&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilhelm+Meinberg" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWysocki1992" class="citation book cs1">Wysocki, Gerd (1992). <i>Arbeit Für Den Krieg: Herrschaftsmechanismen In Der Rüstungsindustrie Des Dritten Reiches: Arbeitseinsatz, Sozialpolitik Und Staatspolizeiliche, 1937-38 bis 1945</i>. Steinweg-Verlag. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-925-15151-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-3-925-15151-4"><bdi>978-3-925-15151-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Arbeit+F%C3%BCr+Den+Krieg%3A+Herrschaftsmechanismen+In+Der+R%C3%BCstungsindustrie+Des+Dritten+Reiches%3A+Arbeitseinsatz%2C+Sozialpolitik+Und+Staatspolizeiliche%2C+1937-38+bis+1945&rft.pub=Steinweg-Verlag&rft.date=1992&rft.isbn=978-3-925-15151-4&rft.aulast=Wysocki&rft.aufirst=Gerd&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilhelm+Meinberg" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFZentnerBedürftig1997" class="citation book cs1">Zentner, Christian; Bedürftig, Friedemann, eds. (1997) [1991]. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Encyclopedia_of_the_Third_Reich" title="The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich">The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich</a></i>. New York: Da Capo Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-306-80793-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-306-80793-0"><bdi>978-0-306-80793-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Encyclopedia+of+the+Third+Reich&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Da+Capo+Press&rft.date=1997&rft.isbn=978-0-306-80793-0&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilhelm+Meinberg" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wilhelm_Meinberg&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&cqlMode=true&query=idn%3D116862785">Literature by and about Wilhelm Meinberg</a> in the <a href="/wiki/German_National_Library" title="German National Library">German National Library</a> catalogue</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.reichstag-abgeordnetendatenbank.de/selectmaske.html?pnd=116862785&recherche=ja">Information about Wilhelm Meinberg</a> in the Reichstag database</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-43063041.html"><i>Der Spiegel</i> interview with Meinberg, 19 January 1960</a> Retrieved 25 June 2023.</li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output 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