Date of birth:

December 24th, 1914 (Hagen, German Empire)

Date of death:

January 27th, 2007 (Kempfenhausen/Starnberger See, Germany)

Service number:

9642252 (NSDAP)

Nationality:

German

Herbert Reinecke was the son of a railway conductor. He began writing for local newspapers as a teenager. He joined the Hitler Youth in 1932 and quickly became involved in its propaganda efforts. After finishing school in 1935, he took on editorial roles for youth publications, including Unsere Fahne and Der Pimpf, and began publishing nationalist fiction and propaganda aimed at young readers.

By the late 1930s, Reinecker was working full-time for the Franz-Eher publishing house and had begun writing screenplays and novels. His 1939 book The Man with the Violin was adapted into a film in 1942.

During World War II, he served as a war correspondent for the Waffen-SS, reporting from Romania, Russia, and other fronts, while continuing to produce plays and screenplays with strong ideological themes. His anti-Soviet drama The Village near Odessa became one of the most performed works of the Nazi era.

In 1942, he became editor-in-chief of Junge Welt, the Hitler Youth’s magazine, and formally joined the Nazi Party in 1943. His final wartime contribution was an editorial for Das Schwarze Korps, the SS newspaper, written in April 1945. As the war ended, Reinecker fled Berlin and took refuge near Lake Wörthersee.

After the war, Reinecker obtained national and international fame, and received a number of accolades for his screenplays on tv-series and movies.

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