Alfred Hess (party official)

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Alfred Heß (born March 29, 1897 in Alexandria , Egypt ; † June 9, 1963 in Reicholdsgrün , Fichtelgebirge ) was a German functionary of the NSDAP / AO and brother of Hitler's deputy Rudolf Heß .

Life

Alfred Heß was the son of the entrepreneur Fritz Heß, who owned the import company Fritz Heß & Co in Alexandria. His brother was the later deputy of Adolf Hitler Rudolf Hess. From 1916 to 1918 he participated in the First World War and suffered several wounds during the war, including being poisoned by gas . In Munich he became a member of the NSDAP as early as 1920 . However, he did not aim for a party career. He temporarily took up residence in Germany in order to complete his school days and complete a commercial apprenticeship. After the party was banned , he rejoined the NSDAP in 1932 ( membership number 1,368,285).

From 1924 he lived again in Alexandria, where he worked in his parents' company. From 1926 onwards he also built up the NSDAP in Egypt . In 1933 he founded the party's national group in Cairo , of which he became the first leader. For the NSDAP / AO he set up the Foreign Trade Office in Berlin and was involved as a fanatical National Socialist for this organization, despite his bad health caused by the war. He finally became deputy head of the NSDAP / AO in 1934 under the Gauleiter Ernst Wilhelm Bohle . After the beginning of the Second World War, it was planned to use him as Governor General of Egypt after the "final victory". After Rudolf Hess' "flight to England" in May 1941, his brother was immediately suspended from the position of deputy head of the NSDAP / AO and taken into custody.

After the end of the war, Hess was interned by the United States and was interrogated as an exonerating witness for the Nuremberg trial of the main war criminals . He was then denazified through a trial chamber trial and released from detention.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Adolf Jacobsen : National Socialist Foreign Policy, 1933–1938. Metzner, Berlin 1968, p. 114
  2. ^ A b Frank-Rutger Hausmann: Ernst-Wilhelm Bohle. Gauleiter in the service of party and state (= contemporary historical research. Volume 38). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2009, p. 68
  3. ^ A b Henrik Eberle, Matthias Uhl: Das Buch Hitler. Cologne 2005, Appendix: Biographies
  4. ^ Carl Freytag: Germany's "urge to the southeast". The Central European Business Day and the “Supplementary Area Southeastern Europe” 1931–1945 . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2012, p. 96
personal data
SURNAME Hess, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German functionary of the NSDAP / AO and brother of Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Alexandria , Egypt
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1963
Place of death Reicholdsgrün , Fichtelgebirge