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Paul lower staff

Paul Unterstab (born April 24, 1895 in Reinsdorf ; † August 25, 1944 in Kischinew ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and SA leader.

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Unterstab attended the community school in Zwickau from 1901 to 1909 and then the teachers' seminars in Annaberg and Zwickau until 1914 .

In August 1914, Unterstab volunteered to take part in the First World War: In the first year of the war he fought with the 243rd Reserve Infantry Regiment. In October 95 he was seriously wounded as a deputy sergeant near Tahure. At the end of 1916 he returned to the front with an MG company with the 133rd Reserve Infantry Regiment. At the end of the war in the autumn of 1918, he was a lieutenant in the reserve and leader of an MG company. Since December 1918, Unterstab belonged to the volunteer detachment of Kirchenpaur, with whom he joined the Hülsen Freikorps in the first post-war period, before he worked for the Saxon border hunters until July 1919 . During the war he was awarded the Iron Cross of Both Classes and the Military Order of Saint Henry.

In August 1919 Unterstab became a teacher in the community of Birkwitz . He then worked from February 1922 to January 1926 as a teacher in Lippersdorf. During this time he became a member of the NSDAP in 1923. In 1925 he also joined SA, the party's task force. In February 1926, Unterstab moved to Niederstrahwalde in Upper Lusatia as a teacher .

A few weeks after the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933, SA-Standarte 102 (Zittau), led by Unterstab as SA-Standartenführer, took over the guarding of the Hainewalde concentration camp . With the promotion date of April 20, 1936, he reached the high point of his SA career with his appointment as SA Brigadefuhrer.

In his profession as a teacher, Unterstab was promoted to the district school board in the 1930s. In this context he moved to the district town of Bautzen .

In April 1933, the sub-staff for the NSDAP moved in as a member of the Saxon state parliament. After the dissolution of this body, he was elected to the National Socialist Reichstag on November 12, 1933 as a member of the NSDAP for constituency 28 (Dresden-Bautzen) , to which he belonged until his death in 1944.

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 , pp. 678–679.
• Erich Stockhorst : 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . 2nd Edition. Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 .

Web links

• Paul Unterstab in the database of members of the Reichstag