Hans Strube

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Hans Strube

Hans Strube (born December 3, 1910 in Bochum , † May 1, 1945 in Herbede near Witten ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

Life

Strube, a machinist by profession , worked in the Ruhr mining industry from his final exam (1929) until 1933 . He joined the NSDAP and the SA on June 1, 1929 . From the beginning of 1931 he was leader of the Hitler Youth at the Bochum location , and since April 1933 full-time. Within the HJ he was promoted to HJ main ban leader until 1938. After the outbreak of World War II , he did military service from 1939 to 1943, initially as a private . In 1943 he was appointed first lieutenant in the reserve and company commander in the Wehrmachtdismiss. From 1943 to 1945 he served the Nazi regime as Gaustabsamtsleiter in the Gauleitung Westfalen-Süd of the NSDAP.

On August 5, 1943, Strube joined the National Socialist Reichstag as a replacement for the resigned MP Wilhelm Meinberg , to which he belonged as a representative of constituency 18 (Westphalia South) until his death on May 1, 1945.

On April 21, 1945, just before the end of the war, Strube was appointed Heinrich Vetter's successor as deputy Gauleiter of Westphalia-South. At this time he was already on the run with Gauleiter Albert Hoffmann . Strube was killed on May 1, 1945 in an argument with former Russian forced laborers near Witten.

literature

  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , p. 656.
  • 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).
  • Ernst Kienast (ed.): The Greater German Reichstag 1938, IV. Electoral period, R. v. Deckers Verlag, G. Schenck, June 1943 edition, Berlin

Individual evidence

  1. Joachim Lilla u. a. (Arr.): Extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. , Düsseldorf 2004, p. 656.