Reinhold Muchow was a Nazi Party politician.

A native of the gritty Neukölln

Neukölln (locality)

Neukölln is an inner-city locality of Berlin in the homonymous borough of Neukölln, including the historic village of Rixdorf and numerous Gründerzeit apartment blocks. The Ortsteil is densely settled a with a population of 154,127 inhabitants and is the most populated one of Berlin...

 district of Berlin, Muchow was one of the Alter Kämpfer

Alter Kämpfer

Alter Kämpfer is a term referring to the earliest members of the Nazi Party, i.e. those who joined it before the Reichstag elections of September 1930, with many belonging to the Party as early as its first foundation in 1919–1923...

of the Nazi Party. He became leader of the Greater Berlin Gau 1 in 1925 and here he established the Muchow Plan

Muchow Plan

The Muchow Plan was an organisational structure for Nazi Party membership developed by Reinhold Muchow when he was leader of the Greater Berlin Gau 1 in 1925....

, a cell-based structure for Nazi Party organisation on a local level which proved important in the growth of the party. Muchow's organisational talents impressed Joseph Goebbels

Joseph Goebbels

Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. As one of Adolf Hitler's closest associates and most devout followers, he was known for his zealous oratory and anti-Semitism...

 and in 1928 he was given charge of organisation for the entire city where his plan became the standard for party structure across Germany

Germany

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. In fact Muchow's structure was strongly influenced by the cell structure of the Communist Party

Communist Party of Germany

The Communist Party of Germany was a major political party in Germany between 1918 and 1933, and a minor party in West Germany in the postwar period until it was banned in 1956...

. He was later sent to the German Labour Front

German Labour Front

The German Labour Front was the National Socialist trade union organisation which replaced the various trade unions of the Weimar Republic after Adolf Hitler's rise to power....

 where he revamped that group's organisation, setting up fourteen new units. He died in an accident in the Rhineland

Rhineland

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in September 1933 and was widely mourned by the Nazi hierarchy.