Third Reich Letter signed by Vice Admiral Adolf VonTrotha – Item 119146

Interesting Third Reich letter dated 1934 and signed in ink by Vice Admiral Von Trotha. Letter related to a fellow WWI veteran who was wounded and unable to carry on his original position.

Note:

Adolf von Trotha (1 March 1868 – 11 October 1940) was a German Admiral  in the Kaiser Liche. After the German revolution he briefly served as the first Chef der Admiralität, which replaced the imperial Reichsmarineamt . After supporting the Kapp-Luttwitz Putsch  of March 1920 he resigned his post. He later held several political and maritime posts in the Third Reich .

Career under the Third Reich

After retirement, Trotha took over the management of the Grossdeutcher Jugendbund  (Greater German Youth League) in 1921. In October 1931 he was one of the participants in the Harzurg Front  march of Nazis and other anti-democratic right-wing nationalists. After the Nazi seizure of power he became a Provincial Councillor for the Province of Brandenburg and Posen-West Prussia. Prussian Minister President Hermann Goring  also appointed him to the Prussian State Council  on 13 September 1933.