Gustav Staebe

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Gustav Louis Erich Staebe (born August 22, 1906 in Hindenburg OS ; † September 27, 1983 in Bad Segeberg ) was a German political functionary, journalist and youth association leader of the Hitler Youth .

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As a child, Staebe was sent to the Wahlstatt cadet institution near Liegnitz for education . In 1919, according to a report in the magazine Die Weltbühne , he was arrested at the age of twelve in Elbing for sticking anti-Semitic leaflets. In the same year he is said to have joined the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund .

Staebe joined the NSDAP for the first time in 1923 . After the party was temporarily banned after the failed Hitler putsch in November 1923 and its re-establishment in the spring of 1925, Staebe rejoined it on May 9, 1926 (membership number 36.247). Soon afterwards he became a full-time functionary of the NSDAP: From 1926 to 1927 Staebe was secretary of the NSDAP in the Braunschweig-Land district. He then became branch manager of Rathenau in order to act as district manager of Barnim from 1927 to 1928. In 1929 he finally held the post of Gauleiter of the Saar .

Since 1930 Staebe has focused his activities on the press and propaganda : in 1930 he became Gau Propaganda Leader, in 1931 he became press officer in Walter Darré's office and in 1932 he joined the editorial staff of the Völkischer Beobachter . In addition, he wrote for a variety of smaller National Socialist newspapers and correspondence such as the economic press service .

From 1932 he was area leader of the Hitler Youth and before 1933 Staebe also attracted more public attention as a party speaker of the NSDAP. In meetings he agitated rhetorically against the Weimar state , which he attacked, for example, as a “money bag republic”, “because the leading men of today's republic filled their pockets and lived a feast and gourmet life”.

In the first few years after the National Socialist accession to power , Staebe took on leadership roles in the Hitler Youth (HJ). Baldur von Schirach appointed him area leader of the Hitler Youth in 1933 and entrusted him with the management of the press and propaganda department of the Reich Youth Leadership . In addition, Staebe was appointed broadcast press chief of the broadcasting group West.

In 1934 Staebe excelled in the press campaign orchestrated by Joseph Goebbels against the " Mucker and Miesmacher ", i. H. against monarchists, reactionaries and conservative opponents of the Nazi regime . In the further course of the Nazi era, Staebe worked as editor-in-chief for the Nazi country post office and the Bremen National Socialist newspaper . In the SS he again achieved the rank of SS-Obersturmführer . On April 10, 1938, he was unsuccessfully proposed for the “List of the Führer for the election of the Greater German Reichstag ”.

In May 1945 Staebe was arrested by the Allies near Gelnhausen and imprisoned in the Darmstadt camp. In his arbitration chamber proceedings , he got away with a mild verdict.

Staebes Schrift The world on the edge. 20 years of Bolshevik reign of terror (special supplement to the NS.-Presse des Gaues Hessen-Nassau from May 1, 1937, Frankfurter Volksblatt publishing house in Frankfurt am Main) was placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone after the end of the war .

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  1. ^ Peter D. Stachura: Nazi Youth in the Weimar Republic , 1975, p. 250.
  2. ↑ Maud Ossietzky: Die Weltbühne , Vol. 33, 1978, p. 60.
  3. ↑ Gotthard Jasper: On the domestic political situation in Germany in autumn 1929 in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte , 1960, edition 8, p. 284 ( PDF ).
  4. ↑ Dieter Rebentisch: The rule of National Socialism in Frankfurt am Main , 1999, p. 48.
  5. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-w.html
personal data
SURNAME Staebe, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Staebe, Gustav Louis Erich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political functionary, journalist and youth association leader
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Hindenburg OS
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1983
Place of death Bad Segeberg