Gustav Louis Erich Staebe was a German Nazi Party official, and SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer.
22 Facts About Gustav Staebe
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Gustav Staebe attended a gymnasium in Elbing and then a military cadet academy in Wahlstatt.
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The party was temporarily banned following the failed Beer Hall Putsch of November 1923 but, after the ban was lifted, Gustav Staebe rejoined it on 9 May 1926.
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Gustav Staebe joined the Party's paramilitary organization, the SA, at this time.
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From 1926 to 1927, Gustav Staebe served as the first Party Kreisleiter in the Brunswick Land area, acting as a Parteiredner.
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On 21 April 1929, following the resignation of Jakob Jung as the Gauleiter of the Saar, Gustav Staebe was named Acting Gauleiter, remaining in this post through 30 July when the permanent replacement, Adolf Ehrecke, was named.
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When leading the Party in the Saar, Gustav Staebe had served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Saardeutscher Volksstimme.
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From here on, Gustav Staebe focused his activities on the areas of press and propaganda.
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In 1930 Gustav Staebe became Gau Propaganda Leader in Gau Hesse-Nassau Sud, and served as the Gau's first Agricultural Specialist.
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Gustav Staebe authored special guidelines for rural propaganda in June 1931, stressing that the peasantry should be provided with "positive ideas about the National Socialist movement" and its policies.
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Gustav Staebe suggested in July 1931 establishing a special cadre of Bauernredner, since the Party at that time lacked orators specifically trained in agricultural issues of interest to the peasantry.
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From 1932 to June 1933, Gustav Staebe was a member of the editorial board of the Volkischer Beobachter, the Nazi Party's largest daily newspaper, overseeing the agricultural and political departments.
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In January 1934, Gustav Staebe became the Hitler Youth Regional Leader in Gau Rheinpfalz.
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Gustav Staebe was named by Reichsjugendfuhrer Baldur von Schirach as the Press Chief of the Reich Youth Leadership, holding this position through November 1934.
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Gustav Staebe retained this position through the end of the Nazi regime in May 1945.
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Gustav Staebe concurrently sat on the State Farmers' Council in Hesse-Nassau and was the regional leader for the Reich Association of the German Press from 1937 to May 1945.
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Gustav Staebe was assigned to the SD Main Office, and served from July through December 1933 as the SD leader in the Bremen area.
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Gustav Staebe attained the rank of SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer on 30 January 1939.
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In 1941, Gustav Staebe was called up for military service with the German Army as a Sonderfuhrer with the rank of Unteroffizier.
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Gustav Staebe became the Editor-in-Chief of a frontline newspaper, and was discharged from the service on 22 March 1943.
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Gustav Staebe underwent denazification proceedings and received a lenient sentence.
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Gustav Staebe resumed a career in journalism as an editor for the Segeberger Zeitung.