Herbert Fust

Herbert Fust

Herbert Robert Gerhard Fust (born June 1, 1899 in Langenfelde ; † November 11, 1974 in Buchholz in the Nordheide ) was a German SA leader and member of the Reichstag for the NSDAP . For several years he was the leader of the Hamburg SA group and from 1932 to 1933 a member of the state parliament of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . From March 1933 until the end of the war he was a member of the National Socialist German Reichstag .

Life

Fust was born as the son of a large landowner family based in Western Pomerania . After attending primary school in Glewitz in the Grimmen district (1906-1907), primary school in Demmin (1907-1908) and high school in Demmin (1908-1910), Fust was trained at the agricultural school in Eldena from 1912 to 1917 . After the final examination, he took part in the First World War from 1917 to 1918 , in which he was deployed in a machine gun company in the Baltic States . In 1918 he was appointed non-commissioned officer and from December 1918 to May 1919 he was a member of the voluntary formation Graf Kanitz. He was discharged from the army as a deputy sergeant major in May 1919. He then completed an agricultural training course by 1921 and then studied for two semesters in Munich . He then worked as an estate manager and later as an independent farmer in Warrenzin near Dargun .

Career in National Socialism

Fust was a member of the DNVP from 1923 to 1927 and belonged to the steel helmet from 1923 to 1924 and then to the front ban until 1927 . From 1927 to 1930 he was with the Roßbach Freikorps and on November 15, 1930 he joined the SA . On December 1, 1930, he was accepted into the NSDAP. In February 1931 he was appointed SA storm leader and from September 1931 to December 1932 he was leader of an SA standard. From 1932 to 1933 he was a member of the 7th ordinary state parliament of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . From March 1933 to May 1945 he sat as a member of the Reichstag, in which he consecutively elected constituencies 35 (Mecklenburg, March 33 to March 1936), 34 (Hamburg, March 1936 to April 1938) and 27 (Rheinpfalz-Saar, April 1938 to May 1945) represented.

From July 1, 1932 until June 30, 1933, he was the leader of the SA sub-group in Mecklenburg. During this time, Fust was accepted into full-time SA service on January 1, 1933 and promoted to SA Oberführer on April 15. Until July 1934 he was the special representative of the Supreme SA leadership in Hamburg and Mecklenburg. After he had been in command of SA Brigade 11 (Mecklenburg) for two months in 1933, he was leader of the SA group Hansa in Hamburg from September 15, 1933 to October 31, 1937 . On Christmas Day 1933 he was promoted to SA brigade leader and on April 20, 1936 to SA group leader. Shortly afterwards, he received a warning for having been drunk and having sexual affairs. From November 1, 1937 to January 31, 1942 he was the leader of the Electoral Palatinate SA group in Mannheim and on August 26, 1939 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht to do military service in France until 1942 and later in Africa. Most recently he was first lieutenant in the reserve of a tank engineer battalion. On January 30, 1942, he was appointed SA-Obergruppenführer and on January 21, 1942, until the end of the war, he again took over the leadership of the SA group Hansa in Hamburg, and he was also awarded the office of Hamburg State Council . After 1945 he was interned.

As part of the prosecution of former high-ranking Nazis who committed particularly serious crimes, he was in 1952 in Wiesbaden for breach of the peace and incitement to arson accused. This referred to the cause of the destruction of the synagogues in the course of the November pogroms in 1938 . However, due to a lack of evidence, Herbert Fust had to be acquitted.

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 .

Web links

• Literature about Herbert Fust in the state bibliography MV
• Herbert Fust in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Joachim Lilla : Fust, Herbert. In: ders .: Minister of State, senior administrative officials and (NS) functionaries in Bavaria from 1918 to 1945.
• Entry on Herbert Fust in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
• Newspaper article about Herbert Fust in the press kit of the 20th century of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .