Hellmuth Becker (politician)
Hellmuth Becker (also Hellmut or Helmut; 9 February 1902 – 12 June 1962) was a German Nazi politician. He was a member of the Hamburg Parliament from 1932 to 1933 and from 1933 to 1945 he was active in the National Socialist German Reichstag and in Hamburg's Nazi cultural policy.

Becker graduated from high school in Eppendorf near Hamburg. He then served in the Reichswehr for a year and then worked as a commercial clerk for three years. He studied political science at the University of Hamburg and received his doctorate in 1929. He then headed a department of a Hamburg building society until 1932 and joined the NSDAP on January 1, 1931 (membership number 456,105).

Becker was a member of the Hamburg Parliament from 1932 to March 25  1933 and was the manager of the local NSDAP faction in March 1933. He then represented constituency 34 in the German Reichstag. During the Nazi era, he was the Gauamtsleiter of the Gau Hamburg. In August 1933, Becker became a member of the Hamburg State Council, a newly created body that was renamed the Council of Aldermen on April 1, 1938. From 1940 to May 1945, he was head of the administration for art and cultural affairs in the Hamburg municipal administration and was also allowed to use the title of Senator, even though there was no Senate at the time. After the war, he stayed in Hamburg and died there in 1962.

 References 

 https://www.reichstag-abgeordnetendatenbank.de/selectmaske.html?pnd=130431745&recherche=ja
 Joachim Lilla, Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: Statisten in Uniform. Die Mitglieder des Reichstags 1933–1945. Ein biographisches Handbuch. Unter Einbeziehung der völkischen und nationalsozialistischen Reichstagsabgeordneten ab Mai 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4.
 Erich Stockhorst: 5000 Köpfe. Wer war was im 3. Reich. 2. Auflage. Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1.
 Maike Bruhns: Kunst in der Krise. Bd. 1: Hamburger Kunst im „Dritten Reich“. Dölling und Galitz, Hamburg 2001.
 Becker, Hellmuth, in: Ernst Klee: Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945. Frankfurt am Main : S. Fischer, 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5, S. 36

Category:1902 births
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Category:Politicians from Hamburg
Category:Reichswehr personnel
Category:University of Hamburg alumni
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Category:Members of the Reichstag 1933–1936
Category:Members of the Reichstag 1936–1938
Category:Members of the Reichstag 1938–1945
Category:Nazi Party members