Peter Berns

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Peter Berns

Peter Berns (born May 18, 1907 in Düsseldorf , † July 3, 1941 in Mogilew , USSR ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

Life

Berns attended elementary and secondary school in Mettmann . Then he attended the commercial college and did a commercial apprenticeship in Wuppertal , where he also worked for the first two years after his training. On August 31, 1925, he joined the NSDAP and the SA . In December 1928, Bern became the leader of the Mettmann local branch of the NSDAP and also of the Mettmann SA raid troops. On May 1, 1929, Bern became district leader of the NSDAP in Elberfeld-Barmen .

Berns graduated from high school in 1930 and then began studying economics in Frankfurt am Main. In the same year he became the leader of the Frankfurt NSDAP university group. A year later, Berns left the University of Frankfurt and studied political science at the University of Vienna , where he completed his doctorate on July 6, 1934 . After the events of the July coup he was expelled from Austria. He returned to his homeland and was appointed district leader Mettmann by Gauleiter Friedrich Karl Florian . In the Reichstag election on March 29, 1936, Berns was elected member of the Reichstag. In the supplementary election of December 4, 1938, he was also on the list of the NSDAP and was therefore represented in the National Socialist Reichstag . When the NSDAP districts of Mettmann and Solingen were merged on March 7, 1938 and henceforth formed the Niederberg district, Berns was appointed head of the new district.

A year later, Berns was appointed to the staff of Rudolf Hess , Adolf Hitler's deputy . Shortly before the start of the Second World War , Berns was drafted into the Luftwaffe as a sergeant . In 1941, as a lieutenant in the 4th Squadron of Kampfgeschwader 3 , he took part in the attack on the Soviet Union . He was killed in an emergency landing of his Junkers Ju 88A-5 , about 10 kilometers north of Staryje Dorogi.

literature

  • Horst Degen, Christoph Schotten: Velbert. History of three cities . Bachem, Cologne 2008, ISBN 3-7616-1843-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV, Douglas G. Stankey: Air Force Officer Career Summaries, Section A-F. (PDF) 2017, p. 341 , accessed on August 2, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Berns, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH July 3, 1941
Place of death Mogilev , USSR