25 Facts About Jakob Sprenger

Jakob Sprenger was a Nazi Party official and politician who was the Party's Gauleiter of Hesse-Nassau South from 1927 to 1933 and Gau Hesse-Nassau from 1933 to 1945.

Jakob Sprenger was the Reichsstatthalter and Minister-President of the People's State of Hesse, the Oberprasident of the Prussian Province of Nassau and an SA-Obergruppenfuhrer.

Jakob Sprenger volunteered for service in the First World War in August 1914.

Jakob Sprenger was assigned to his old regiment as an Offizierstellvertreter training volunteers and reservists.

Jakob Sprenger was then deployed to the western front and was wounded in action in November 1914, losing a toe on his right foot.

Jakob Sprenger was decorated for valor and awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class.

Jakob Sprenger subsequently served as a deputy company commander and a poison gas defense officer in Pinsk and Rivne in Ukraine.

In 1922, Jakob Sprenger became a member of the Nazi Party.

Jakob Sprenger became the leader of the DP in Frankfurt, Hesse, and Hesse-Nassau, and worked as a campaign speaker.

Jakob Sprenger formally rejoined the Nazi Party on 14 August 1925.

Jakob Sprenger was anti-Semitic, and rose quickly through the ranks.

Jakob Sprenger immediately was made Ortsgruppenleiter and SA leader of Frankfurt and became a Bezirksleiter in Hesse-Nassau South on 31 October 1926.

Jakob Sprenger was appointed Gauleiter of Hesse-Nassau South on 1 April 1927, succeeding Karl Linder.

In September 1930 Jakob Sprenger was elected a member of the Reichstag for electoral constituency 19, Hesse-Nassau.

Jakob Sprenger would become the Nazi faction's specialist on civil service issues and was given a seat on the Reichstag Committee on Civil Service Matters.

In early 1931, Jakob Sprenger joined the National Socialist Motor Corps with membership number 5.

Jakob Sprenger would become head of its Civil Service Department from September 1931 through July 1933.

Jakob Sprenger became the leader of the German Civil Servants Association from April to June 1933, and then continued as the Honorary President of the German Civil Service through the end of the Nazi regime.

Jakob Sprenger was made a member of the Academy for German Law.

Jakob Sprenger then returned to his Gauleiter position in Hesse-Nassau South.

When his Gau was merged with the neighboring Gau of Hesse-Darmstadt on 1 January 1933, Jakob Sprenger became the Gauleiter of the unified Gau Hesse-Nassau.

Jakob Sprenger was a holder of the Golden Party Badge.

Subsequently, the province was partitioned in two, effective 1 July 1944, and Jakob Sprenger was appointed Oberprasident of the new Prussian Province of Nassau.

Jakob Sprenger thus united under his control the highest party and governmental offices in the province, as he had already done in the State of Hesse.

On 25 September 1944, Jakob Sprenger became commander of the Volkssturm forces in his Gau.