Albert Kost

Albert Kost

Friedrich Albert Kost (born March 19, 1897 in Niederaden ; † July 3, 1947 there ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

Live and act

From 1903 to 1906 Kost attended the elementary school in Niederaden and from 1906 to August 1914 the Rector's School in Leimen and the Realgymnasium (up to Unterprima) in Dortmund . From 1914 to 1918 he took part in World War I as a volunteer : During the war he was awarded the Iron Cross of both classes, before he was finally taken prisoner of war by the English, from which he was released in 1920. At the end of the war he was a lieutenant in the reserve, from 1920 to 1923 he worked on his father's farm and collected agricultural practice on other farms. He graduated from high school in 1914 as a military diploma . He studied natural sciences and agriculture in Münster and Jena from 1923 to 1925 . He completed his studies in 1925 as a qualified farmer and then worked during the growing season on his parents' farm and in winter as an agriculture teacher at the agricultural school in Dortmund. From 1929 to 1933 Kost worked as the head of an agricultural advice center.

In 1929 Kost joined the NSDAP (membership number 174.076). In 1933 he became a member of the Westphalian Provincial Committee and the Prussian State Council . In 1933 and 1934 he was regional chairman, then regional farmer leader of Westphalia within the Reichsnährstand . With that, Kost automatically became a member of the German Reichsbauernrat , while he voluntarily joined the Reichsbund der Kinderreich . In the SS (membership number 187.126) he made it up to Obersturmbannführer , while he worked as a shock troop speaker for the Reich Propaganda Administration.

From November 1933, Kost was a member of the National Socialist Reichstag . Kost took part in the Second World War as a soldier , as a major and department commander.

literature

• Erich Stockhorst : 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . 2nd Edition. Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 .
• Helene Albers: The quiet revolution in the country. Agriculture and the Chamber of Agriculture in Westphalia-Lippe 1899-1999, Münster 1999, pp. 29–37.
• Joachim Lilla : The Prussian State Council 1921–1933. A biographical manual. With a documentation of the state councilors appointed in the “Third Reich”. (= Handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties , Volume 13.) Droste, Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 978-3-7700-5271-4 , page 087.

Web links

• Albert Kost in the database of members of the Reichstag