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Bernhard Rust
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Key facts
- 1932
- Landesinspekteur for Lower Saxony
- Leader
- Adolf Hitler
- Preceded by
- Office established
- Succeeded by
- Gustav Adolf Scheel
- 1933 1945
- Member of the Prussian State Council
- 1930 1933
- Member of the Reichstag (Weimar Republic)
- Born
- Karl Josef Bernhard Rust , ( 1883-09-30 ) 30 September 1883, Hanover , Province of Hanover , German Empire
- Died
- 8 May 1945 (1945-05-08) (aged 61), Nübel , Allied-occupied Germany
- Cause of death
- Suicide
- Resting place
- Neuberend
- Party
- Nazi Party
- Other political affiliations
- Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund , German Völkisch Freedom Party
- Spouses
- Martha Haake ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1910 ; died 1919 ) Anna-Sofie Dietlein ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1920 )
- Parent s
- Johann Franz Rust (father), Josefa Deppe (mother)
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Cabinet
- Hitler Cabinet
- Allegiance
- German Empire
- Branch service
- Imperial German Army
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Bernhard
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Hanover
- Place of death
- Nübel
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- Reichsminister
- Educated at
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Political party
- German Völkisch Freedom Party
- Languages spoken
- German
- Conflict
- World War I
- Military rank
- lieutenant
- Image
- Bundesarchiv Bild 119-1998, Bernhard Rust.jpg
- Work location
- Berlin
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- Commons category
- Bernhard Rust
- date of birth
- 1883-09-30
- date of death
- 1945-05-08
- member of
- Militant League for German Culture
- manner of death
- Suicide
- name in native language
- Bernhard Rust
- place of burial
- Schleswig-Holstein
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Encyclopedic overview
Bernhard Rust (30 September 1883 – 8 May 1945) was Minister of Science, Education and National Culture (Reichserziehungsminister) in Nazi Germany. A combination of school administrator and zealous Nazi, he issued decrees, often bizarre, at every level of the German educational system to immerse German youth in Nazi ideology. He also served as the party Gauleiter in Hanover and Brunswick from 1925 to 1940.
Life before politics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bernhard Rust” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.