Robert Bauer (politician, 1898)

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Robert Bauer

Robert Bauer (born September 9, 1898 in Bermsgrün , † May 16, 1965 in Tübingen ) was a German politician of the NSDAP .

Life before 1933

After attending the secondary school in Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb. was a farmer from 1916 to 1918 volunteer in the First World War . After his return to the Ore Mountains, he worked as a commercial clerk until 1926, before he went into business for himself in 1927 and traded Christmas items from the Ore Mountains in Dresden .

Robert Bauer was one of the " old fighters " of the Nazi movement. He joined the NSDAP and the SA in 1923 . In December 1923 he founded the local branch of the NSDAP in Lengefeld , of which he remained leader until 1932. It was the first local NSDAP group in the Ore Mountains .

In 1926 Robert Bauer also took over the post of head of the Obererzgebirge district, a subdivision of the former NSDAP district of Chemnitz, and was mainly responsible for the formation of local groups in the district authorities of Annaberg and Marienberg, with sub-district leaders assisting him. On June 1, 1930 he became district leader of the NSDAP district of the Upper Ore Mountains. In 1930 he also took over the leadership of the SA Standard III.

Career in the Nazi state

With the " seizure of power " he sat for the constituency of Chemnitz-Zwickau in the Reichstag and until 1936 was also representative of the party leadership and organizational leader for the districts of Saxony , Thuringia , Halle-Merseburg and Magdeburg-Anhalt , the so-called "Area III". In June 1936, Bauer was transferred to Sonthofen , where he commanded the NSDAP's Ordensburg until February 1941 . From mid-1941 to 1944 he worked as chief commissioner in the Reichskommissariat Ostland and from 1936 as Reichshauptamtsleiter and from 1942 as head of the NSDAP.

From January 30, 1942, Robert Bauer held the rank of SA brigade leader.

After the end of the war in 1945, Bauer was apparently held in Allied detention for a while. Corresponding imprisonment or denazification periods have not yet been determined. Robert Bauer died in Tübingen, Württemberg, in mid-May 1965 at the age of 67.

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