12 Facts About Rudolf Buttmann

Rudolf Buttmann was a German lawyer, Bavarian State Library director and Nazi politician.

Rudolf Hermann Buttmann was born in Marktbreit, the son of a school teacher.

Rudolf Buttmann attained the rank of Leutnant and received the Iron Cross, second class.

Rudolf Buttmann supported the Freikorps Epp against the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic, and then returned to his position with the Bavarian State Parliament Library, where he was promoted to senior librarian in 1924.

Under its banner, Rudolf Buttmann was elected as one of its 23 deputies to the Bavarian Landtag in May 1924.

However, when Hitler reestablished the Nazi Party on 27 February 1925, Rudolf Buttmann immediately joined the NSDAP.

In September 1925, the NSDAP formed its own parliamentary bloc in the Bavarian Landtag; Rudolf Buttmann was named its leader and would remain so until 1933.

In September 1932, Rudolf Buttmann became the head of the Main Department for Popular Education in the Nazi Party's Reichsleitung.

In October 1933, Rudolf Buttmann was one of the founding members of Hans Frank's Academy for German Law.

In November 1933, Rudolf Buttmann was elected to the Reichstag from electoral constituency 24, Upper Bavaria-Swabia where he would continue to serve until 1945.

Rudolf Buttmann would continue to negotiate the implementing details of the pact over the next two years.

Rudolf Buttmann then left the Interior Ministry to become Director General of the Bavarian State Library, a post which he held from 1 October 1935 to the fall of the Nazi regime in May 1945.