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Eugen Hund (born December 3, 1901 in Eßlingen am Neckar , † 1975 ) was a German political functionary (NSDAP).

Life and activity

After attending school, Hund trained as an industrial clerk. From 1924 to 1933 he was employed as a commercial clerk at the machine works Eßlingen (ME), where Wilhelm Murr was one of his colleagues. Through Murr, who later became Reich Governor of Württemberg, Hund came into contact with the NSDAP.

In 1925 Hund joined the NSDAP. After a party meeting in the Stuttgart Liederhalle, Hund had doubts about the Nazi ideology, so he left the party, only to rejoin it in 1930. In the following years he went through a steep career in the party, which he owed mainly to his friendship with Murr.

In September 1930 he succeeded Murr's local group leader of the NSDAP in Esslingen. From December 1931 to mid-133 he also sat for the party in the Eßlinger local council, in which he led the three-member NSDPA parliamentary group.

During the November pogroms of 1938, Hund was opposed to the demolition of the synagogue and the Jewish orphanage in Esslingen. He refused the request from the party leadership in Stuttgart to set fire to the Esslingen synagogue with the remark: "So ebbes narrets make me net". Accordingly, unlike Stuttgart, Ulm or Heilbronn, there was no Reichskristallnacht in Esslingen. At the synagogue trial before the Stuttgart Regional Court in 1951, he was acquitted because of his behavior during these events.

After the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933, Hund was appointed as district leader of the NSDAP for the NSDAP district of Esslingen. By decree of the Württemberg Ministry of the Interior of September 13, 1933, he was appointed acting mayor of Wendlingen .

In 1942 Hund was transferred to the party office of the NSDAP , the central control body for the management and supervision of the party apparatus of the NSDAP. With the rank of Reich Main Office Leader, he acted as Head of Department II of the Party Chancellery, which was responsible for inspecting the political leadership of the NSDAP in the areas of Europe occupied by Germany. In this position, Hund was one of the closest employees of the head of the party chancellery and de facto staff leader of Adolf Hitler Martin Bormann .

After the war, Hund was subjected to a ruling chamber procedure and various criminal proceedings. His last trial, in which he and Emil Veil were indicted for breach of the peace at the Stuttgart Regional Court, ended on September 4, 1953 with an acquittal for lack of evidence.

Archival material

• Baden-Württemberg State Archive: EL 903/4: Judgment Chamber File

literature

• From Weimar to Bonn: Esslingen 1919-1949: Accompanying volume for the exhibition "Esslingen 1919-1949, From Weimar to Bonn"; in the old town hall and at eleven places in the city from May 15 to August 18, 1991 , 1991, p. 453f.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Meier Schwarz: Synagogues in Baden-Württemberg: Places and Institutions , 2007, p. 115.