Hermann Neef (politician)
Hermann Neef | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Reichstag | |
| In office November 1933 – May 1945 | |
| Constituency | 19 (Hesse-Nassau) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 September 1904 Templin, German Empire |
| Died | 18 November 1950 (aged 46) Berlin, Allied-occupied Germany |
| Party | NSDAP |
| Occupation | Senior customs official |
Known for | Reich civil servants' leader |
Hermann Neef (2 September 1904 in Templin – 18 November 1950 in Berlin) was a German senior customs official, Reich civil servants' leader and Member of the Reichstag during the Nazi era.[1]
Early life and education
The son of a secondary school teacher, he attended primary and secondary school in St. Goarshausen and, after attending a Gymnasium in Oberlahnstein, passed his Abitur in 1922. From September 1922, Neef pursued a civil service career in the customs service, where he rose to the position of senior customs secretary by 1928.[2]
Political career
Neef joined the SA in 1923.[3] He later attained the rank of SA Brigadeführer. On 4 July 1925, he joined the NSDAP (membership number 9,249).[4] In the NSDAP, he became district leader in the Lahntal district in 1929 and reached the position of Kreisleiter in 1930.[5] From 1929 to 1931, Neef was a city councillor in Frankfurt am Main.[2] From the 9th electoral term in November 1933, Neef represented constituency 19 (Hesse-Nassau) continuously in the Nazi Reichstag until the end of the Nazi era.[6]
Civil service leadership
In the civil servants' department of the Reich leadership of the NSDAP, he became propaganda and organizational leader in 1931 and reached the position of head of a main office and Regierungsrat in 1934.[3] From 1931 to April 1933, he served as editor-in-chief of the Nationalsozialistische Beamtenzeitung (NSBZ). In April 1933, Neef became deputy Reich Commissioner for civil servants' organizations, from June 1933 chairman of the German Civil Servants' Association, and from July 1933 head of the NSDAP's civil servants' department, a position he held until 1934. In October 1933, he founded the Reichsbund der Deutschen Beamten, which later had more than one million members.[5] His personal assistant was the economist Justin Brill.[7]
Neef served as honorary chairman of administrative and supervisory boards of companies in which mainly civil servants were employed.[2] From October 1933 until the end of the war, he was Reich civil servants' leader and publisher of the newspaper Das Dritte Reich.[8]
Legal and administrative organizations
Neef had been a member of the Academy for German Law since October 1933 and headed its committee for civil service law from 1938 to 1941.[3] He was also a member of the Supreme Leadership Council of the German Legal Front. Neef, a member of the leadership council of the Reich Association of German Administrative Academies and its liaison officer to the Amt Rosenberg, was also president of the Administrative Academy in Berlin.[5] He became a Regierungsrat on 15 March 1934 and from 1934 to 1945 headed the Main Office for Civil Servants of the NSDAP. He was a member of the Supreme Leadership Council of the German Legal Front and the Association of National Socialist German Jurists (BNSDJ), which from 1936 was known as the National Socialist Legal Professionals Association. Since 1935, he was a permanent member of the Reich Labour Chamber. On 9 November 1938, he was assigned to the personnel main office of the Supreme SA Leadership (OSAF) as an SA-Oberführer.[8]
Publications and later life
Neef wrote numerous publications concerning Nazism and the civil service; all of his writings were placed on the List of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone after the war.[9]
References
- ↑ "Digitale Bibliothek - Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum". daten.digitale-sammlungen.de. Retrieved 2026-08-23.
- 1 2 3 Database of Reichstag Members
- 1 2 3 Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 430.
- ↑ Bundesarchiv R 9361-III/568866
- 1 2 3 Erich Stockhorst: 5000 Köpfe - Wer war was im Dritten Reich, Kiel 2000, p. 305.
- ↑ "Volksgemeinschaft: Heidelberger Beobachter, NS-Zeitung für Nordbaden (3) (1933 (November-Dezember))". digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de. Retrieved 2026-08-23.
- ↑ Lilla, Joachim (2004). Statisten in Uniform: Die Mitglieder des Reichstags 1933–1945. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag. pp. 435–436. ISBN 3-7700-5254-4.
- 1 2 Joachim Lilla (ed.): Statisten in Uniform. Die Mitglieder des Reichstags 1933–1945. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 2004, pp. 435–436.
- ↑ "Buchstabe N, Liste der auszusondernden Literatur. Herausgegeben von der Deutschen Verwaltung für Volksbildung in der sowjetischen Besatzungszone. Vorläufige Ausgabe nach dem Stand vom 1. April 1946 (Berlin: Zentralverlag, 1946)". www.polunbi.de. Retrieved 2026-08-23.