Karl Nabersberg
German youth leader and politician, recruiter for the Hitler Youth
About Karl Nabersberg
Lived 1908 – 1946 (aged 37). Karl Nabersberg was a German politician.
Karl Nabersberg (sometimes written as Carl Nabersberg, 11 July 1908 – 15 January 1946) was a German youth leader.
Nabersberg was the son of a Crefeld shopkeeper. In 1923 he joined the Jugendorganisation, the forerunner of the Hitler Youth, in his home town. On 28 December 1925 he was admitted as a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (member number 26269) and as a member of the Sturmabteilung. ) During the raid, Hermann Maaß was summoned and threatened by Nabersberg before being told to leave the building. Schirach named Nabersberg as one of the "Pioneers of the Third Reich" in his 1933 book.
From July 1934 he became head of the Border and International Relations Office of the Hitler Youth, promoting ethnic politics amongst Germanic youth in neighbouring countries. In January 1935 he resigned this position for health reasons and assumed the duties of an Obergebietsführer of the Hitler Youth. In November 1937 he met Lord Baden-Powell with a view to forging closer ties between the Hitler Youth and The Scout Association.
After the war, the West Berlin Denazification Tribunal fined Nabersberg 6,000 Reichsmarks. He died in 1946.
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German youth leader and politician, recruiter for the Hitler Youth (1908–1946)
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Karl Nabersberg was born on 11 July 1908 in Krefeld.
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Karl Nabersberg died on 15 January 1946 in Dachau.
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Karl Nabersberg was a politician.
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Karl Nabersberg was German.
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