Herbert Dassler

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Herbert Dassler during the Nuremberg Trials

Herbert Dassler (born January 25, 1902 in Oberpöllnitz , † February 19, 1957 in Wilhelmshaven ) was a German politician (NSDAP).

Life

Dassler was a son of the master builder Otto Dassler and his wife Charlotte, geb. Singer. After attending the village school in Oberpöllnitz, the secondary school in Neustadt an der Orla and the secondary school in Gera- Reuss (Abitur 1921), Dassler completed an apprenticeship as a wholesaler at Heinrich Blockmer u. Comp. in Leipzig . At the same time he studied at the Leipzig commercial school.

After obtaining his commercial diploma, Dassler studied economics at the University of Frankfurt in the winter semester of 1924/1925 . He had to give up plans to do a doctorate due to the financial situation of his family. From March 1925 to July 1926 he worked instead in the grain mill industry at the Wurzener Kunstmühlen-Werke and biscuit factories.

In August 1926 Dassler joined Deutsche Getreide-Handelsgesellschaft GmbH in Berlin, which was commissioned by the Reich Ministry of Food to support the rye price, and for which he was to remain active for four and a half years. There he was initially concerned with agricultural statistical tasks, later with work in the areas of freight, calculation and post-calculation. In addition, he was entrusted with the management of a securities account. In February 1931 he was dismissed from his position, according to his own account "through intrigues" that were spun against him because of his role in uncovering a rye support scandal.

On September 1, 1930 Dassler joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) and the Sturmabteilung (SA) with membership number 312.956 . Later - on January 30, 1939 - he received the NSDAP's Golden Party Badge despite his comparatively high party number .

Since July 3, 1931, Dassler, who was now a full-time party functionary of the NSDAP, held office as Gau propaganda leader and Gau press attendant of the Brandenburg district. In addition, he was active as a speaker in Brandenburg and other areas of the empire. As an employee of the Nazi farmer's leader Walther Darré , whom he had met in the fall of 1930, Dassler also took over functions in the party's agricultural policy apparatus .

On the occasion of the Reichstag elections of March 1933, Dassler moved into the Reichstag as a member of the NSDAP, where he represented constituency 4 (Potsdam I). He was a member of this group for eight months until November 1933. During his short term in parliament, Dassler voted, among other things, for the adoption of the Enabling Act of March 1933, which formed the legal basis for the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship.

In May / June 1936 Dassler was awarded the SS honorary rank of SS Obersturmbannführer due to his position as a member of the Reichsbauernrat. Associated with this was his acceptance into the Schutzstaffel (SS number 276,596). In this he last reached the rank of Standartenführer before he was expelled from her on October 30, 1943.

Until May 1942, Dassler acted as head of the Reich Office for Feed and Grain. In this capacity, he also worked closely with the person responsible for the four-year plan, Hermann Göring . He then worked in the inland shipping group of the Reichswerke Hermann Göring until the spring of 1943. After his indispensable position was lifted, Dassler was a member of the Wehrmacht from February or March to October 1943, and then returned to the shipping group as an employee, to which he was a member until the summer of 1944. During the last months of the war he worked as head of the REIMAHG followers' office in Thuringia and as a grocery buyer.

After the Second World War , Dassler appeared as a witness for the prosecution in the trials against Darré and the Reich Security Main Office employee Haensch.

Promotions

  • June 1936: SS-Obersturmbannführer
  • January 30, 1939: SS Standartenführer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to WH Schröder: BIORAB database.
  2. ↑ Klaus D. Patzwall : The Golden Party Badge and its Honorary Awards 1934-1944, Studies of the History of Awards Volume 4 , Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt 2004, ISBN 3-931533-50-6 , p. 66
  3. ^ Gustavo Corni: Bread, Butter, Kanonen , 1997, p. 143.
  4. ^ Ladislav Feierabend: Prague-London , 1971, p. 41.
  5. ^ "Blomberg case", in: Die Zeit of March 11, 1988. At Göring's request, Dassler also performed special tasks. For example, he put a former lover of Werner von Blomberg's wife into a job in the Argentine agricultural sector.
  6. ^ Robert Lewis Koehl: The Black Corps , 1983, p. 373.
  7. ^ John Mandelsohn: Nuernberg War Crimes Trials. Records of Case IX , 1978, p. 148.
personal data
SURNAME Dassler, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberpöllnitz
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 1957
Place of death Wilhelmshaven