Adolf Jobst

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Adolf Jobst

Adolf Jobst (born May 10, 1900 in Krummau an der Moldau ; † May 15, 1974 in Darmstadt ) was a German restorer , painter and politician ( SdP , later NSDAP ).

Life

After attending grammar school, Jobst worked as a laborer from 1914 to 1916 and then as a painter and photographer until 1918. He was arrested in 1918 for advertising a volunteer corps. However, he managed to escape to Dalmatia and later to Italy , where he studied painting in more detail. After his return to Bohemia , he worked as a restorer in South Bohemia. Further study periods in France (Sorbonne) and in Munich, Germany followed. After his return at the end of 1933, he worked as a restorer in South Bohemia, often in the service of Count Schaffgotsch . During these years he created many of his own works, which earned him the name "Spitzweg des Bohemian Forest" and are now partially kept in the National Gallery in Prague .

From 1932 until the party was banned in 1933, he was a member of the DNSAP . Jobst joined the Sudeten German Party in 1934 and from 1935 belonged to the House of Representatives of Czechoslovakia . From 1937 to 1938 he was district leader of the party in Budweis . At the height of the Sudeten crisis , he briefly left for the German Reich in September 1938 . From September to October 1938 he led Group II of the Sudeten German Freikorps . After the German annexation of the Sudeten areas in autumn 1938 by the National Socialist German Reich, he became a member of the SA at the end of October 1938 , where he achieved the rank of Sturmbannführer. At the beginning of November 1938 he became a member of the NSDAP. From December 4, 1938 to 1945, Jobst was a member of the Reichstag . In addition, he became a district inspector at the district administration for the Upper Danube.

From 1940 to 1941 he took part in the French campaign. For this he was given leave of absence from the Reichstag for one year. After his return he was district leader of Bischofteinitz from May 1941 until the end of the war . In 1942 he married and had two children. On May 9, 1945, he volunteered to face the Americans. From 1945 to 1948 he was an American prisoner of war in Straubing, Hersbruck and Darmstadt. He was denazified and dismissed as a fellow traveler in 1948 . He then lived in Friedberg until 1949 and then in Marburg , where he got a job as a restorer. He was then brought to Darmstadt, where he worked from 1951 to 1965 at the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt as head of the restoration workshop.

literature

Web links

  • Adolf Jobst in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joachim Lilla : The representation of the "Reichsgaus Sudetenland" and the "Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia" in the Grossdeutsche Reichstag. In: Bohemia. Journal of the history and culture of the Czech lands . Volume 40, 1999, Issue 2, pp. 436-471, here p. 459 (digitized version ) .
personal data
SURNAME Jobst, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian restorer, painter and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Český Krumlov , Czech Republic
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1974
Place of death Darmstadt