Adolf Kob

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Adolf Kob
Adolf Kob with his eldest granddaughter (1936)
Speech at the German harvest festival in St. Gallen (1940)

Adolf Hajo Oltmann Kob (born June 7, 1885 in Prague ; † November 20, 1945 in Bad Mergentheim ) was a German SA Obergruppenführer and a member of the Reichstag .

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Kob, who studied chemistry at the universities in Dresden and Munich after attending elementary school and high school in Munich and Dresden , became a professional soldier when he joined the Royal Saxon Field Artillery in 1906. From 1912 to 1914 he graduated from the War Academy in Berlin and then took part in the First World War as a division adjutant and commander , most recently with the rank of general staff officer. After the end of the war he worked as a police officer in the Saxon State Police until he was dismissed for political reasons in 1923 and then worked in the commercial area.

Kob first joined the Wiking League in 1923 . He was also active in the DNVP during the Weimar Republic . Kob became a member of the NSDAP on February 1, 1930 . He had been a member of the SA since September 1, 1931 , within which he became SA Standartenführer on July 1, 1932 . From March 1932 to September 1933 he was a staff leader in SA-Obergruppe IV in Saxony. Then he became leader of SA-Obergruppe I in East Prussia until the end of January 1934.

Kob was particularly involved in the Mounted SA, which was created only in 1930 and in 1933-34 the majority of the approximately 60,000 rural equestrian clubs in Germany as part of the DC circuit have been forcibly transferred. He became inspector of the Reiter SA. He was promoted to SA Brigade Leader in September 1933. From 1933 he was a member of the Saxon State Parliament and in January 1935 Provincial Councilor in the Province of Saxony. From the 9th electoral term in November 1933 Kob was a member of the Reichstag for constituency 1 (East Prussia) and from 1936 for constituency 10 ( Magdeburg ) .

From the beginning of November 1933 to the end of January 1934, Kob also temporarily took over the post of Police President in Königsberg . From the beginning of February 1934 to mid-July 1934 Kob was Inspector East of the Supreme SA Leadership (OSAF). In November 1934 he was promoted to SA group leader, first he headed the SA group “Mitte” and later “Elbe”. In November 1936 he was promoted to SA-Obergruppenführer.

After the beginning of the Second World War , he did military service as Major dR in the Wehrmacht in 1939/40 and was deployed with several general staffs . Then he was put on hold.

At the beginning of February 1942 he became leader of the Reiter-SA and Reich inspector for riding and driving training in Berlin. As such, Kob was subordinate to the Reichs-Reiterführer-Schule in Berlin-Zehlendorf-Düppel.

In addition, from May 1942 Kob was an honorary member of the People's Court . After the end of the war, he died in captivity in Bad Mergentheim in November 1945.

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  1. ↑ a b Hermann-Josef Rupieper, Alexander Sperk (Ed.): The situation reports of the secret state police for the province of Saxony 1933 to 1936 . Volume 2: Merseburg administrative region . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2004, p. 134, footnote 423
  2. ↑ Bruce Campbell: The SA Generals and the Rise of Nazism , Kentucky 2004, p. 209
  3. ↑ See Martin Schuster: The SA in the National Socialist "seizure of power" in Berlin and Brandenburg 1926-1934 , Phil. Diss., Berlin 2005
  4. ↑ a b Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 322
  5. ↑ Erich Stockhorst: 5000 heads - who was what in the Third Reich , 239f
  6. ↑ Joachim Lilla, Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: Extras in Uniform: The members of the Reichstag 1933-1945. A biographical handbook , Düsseldorf 2004, p. 320
  7. ↑ Reich inspector for riding and driving training with the participation of the High Command of the Army (Ed.): SA-Obergruppenführer Adolf Kob Reich inspector for riding and driving training , In: Deutsche Reiterhefte. Bulletin of the Reich Inspector for Riding and Driving Training, Issue 24–26, 7th year 1942, Berlin 1942
  8. ^ Walter Lehweß: The Reich rider leader school in Berlin-Zehlendorf . In: Monthly books for architecture and urban development, Berlin: Bauwelt-Verlag, pp. 41–44, 1940
personal data
SURNAME Kob, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kob, Adolf Hajo Oltmann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR, SA-Obergruppenführer
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1945
Place of death Bad Mergentheim