Reinhold Muchow (21 December 1905 in Berlin – 12 September 1933 in Bacharach) was a Nazi Party politician. Especially prized in the early years of the movement for his organisational skills, he was associated with the economically left wing of the party.

A native of the gritty Neukölln district of Berlin, Muchow was one of the Alter Kämpfer of the Nazi Party.[1] He was associated with the Strasser brothers[2] and set up a Central Union of the Unemployed in an attempt to attract new members to the party before this initiative was closed down by the central leadership.[3] 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.[4]

At the same time he was also put in charge of a new Sekretariat für Arbeiterangelegenheiten, later called the Organisation of National Socialist Factory Cells, which sought to build up support for the Nazi Party among industrial workers.[5] 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]

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Louis Leo Snyder, Encyclopedia of the Third Reich, Ware: Wordsworth Editions, 1998, p. 233
  2. ↑ David Schoenbaum, Hitler's Social Revolution: Class and Status in Nazi Germany 1933-39, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967, p. 23
  3. ↑ Schoenbaum, Hitler's Social Revolution, p. 26
  4. ↑ Detlef Mühlberger, Hitler's Voice: The Völkischer Beobachter, 1920-1933. Organisation & Development of the Nazi Party, Volume 1, Peter Lang, 2004, p. 287
  5. ↑ Schoenbaum, Hitler's Social Revolution, p. 28
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