Gustav Robert Oexle

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Gustav Robert Oexle

Gustav Robert Oexle (born October 2, 1889 in Sipplingen , † April 25, 1945 in Nussdorf ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

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Oexle was born as the son of a day laborer in Sipplingen, near Überlingen on Lake Constance, and was an orphan as a schoolboy . After attending elementary school , Oexle earned his living as a factory worker from 1904 to 1909. In 1909 he joined the Imperial Navy . In the following years he served on the large-scale ship SMS Nassau and the small cruiser SMS Augsburg as well as at the ship artillery school in Sønderborg . From April 1913 to December 8, 1914, Oexle took part in this ship's world tour as a gun leader and role writer on the small cruiser SMS Leipzig .

A few months after the outbreak of the First World War took Oexle end of 1914 at the Leipzig with the East Asia Squadron under Vice Admiral Graf Spee at the Battle of the Falkland Islands in part. He survived the destruction of the squadron because he was saved from drowning by the British , and was then a prisoner of war in an English camp until 1916 . After his release from captivity, Oexle served as the German internment director in Switzerland from 1916 to 1917 . In the course of 1917 Oexle returned to Germany, where he found a job in the personnel office of the 2nd Sailor Division. By the end of the First World War, Oexle received the following awards: the Iron Cross of both classes, the Cross of Honor of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords, the Prussian Cross of Merit for War Aid , the fifteen-year service award and the Wound Badge .

In the first months after the war - November 1918 to March 1, 1920 - Oexle headed the main registry of the Maritime Personnel Office of the North Sea Naval Station . In 1919 he also took part in the Freikorps fights in Wilhelmshaven . In 1919/1920, Oexle also attended the military candidate school, which he left after passing the candidate exams for intermediate railway, customs and administrative services.

In 1920 Oexle was accepted as an administrative assistant in the Baden district office in Überlingen . From 1921 Oexle also belonged to the Damm organization until its dissolution in 1929 and was dismissed from the district office in 1922 due to his activities in this right-wing extremist volunteer corps. From then until his suicide in 1945, he lived with the Lang family, who ran a pension in Nussdorf and later became a point of contact for supporters of the NSDAP. He was soon regarded as a "foster son" in the Lang family and always remained closely connected to the older, single daughter of the family. From 1922 he was council clerk for the municipality of Nussdorf on Lake Constance.

At the end of the 1920s, Oexle joined the NSDAP and was a co-founder of the first local branch of the NSDAP in the Überlingen district. As early as 1930 he was the party's local group leader , soon afterwards district leader and Gauredner .

After the National Socialist " seizure of power " in 1933, Oexle first became a member of the Baden state parliament , to which he belonged until it was dissolved in the autumn of the same year. From November 1933 on he was head of the Reich Main Office and, as “Special Representative of the Deputy Leader”, he was a member of Rudolf Hess's staff .

In September 1934, Oexle moved into the Reichstag as a replacement for the deceased MP Otto Maier , where he represented constituency 31 (Württemberg) until the end of the Nazi regime.

literature

  • Walter Hutter: Gustav Robert Oexle. In: Rudolf Beck et al .: Nussdorf in the 925th year a reading book , MEC Service, Überlingen 2017, pp. 269–274. ISBN 3-9815861-1-5 .
  • Walter Hutter: Gustav Robert Oexle: The rise from "servant" to head of a branch of the party leadership. In: Wolfgang Proske (ed.): Perpetrators, helpers, free riders. Volume 5. Nazi victims from the Lake Constance area , Kugelberg, Gerstetten 2016, pp. 139–150. ISBN 978-3-945893-04-3 .
  • Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudolf Beck et al. a .: Nussdorf in the 925th year. A reader . MEC Service, Überlingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-9815861-1-4 , p. 269 .
  2. ↑ Rudolf Beck et al. a .: Nussdorf in the 925th year. A reader . MEC Service, Überlingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-9815861-1-4 , p. 274 .
  3. ↑ Rudolf Beck et al. a .: Nussdorf in the 925th year. A reader . MEC Service, Überlingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-9815861-1-4 , p. 271 .
personal data
SURNAME Oexle, Gustav Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Sipplingen
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1945
Place of death Nussdorf