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Robert Ley
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German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1890
- Died
- 1945
- Works
- 31
Top works
- Organization book of the NSGWP
- Unser Sozialismus--der hass der Welt
- Autarkie oder Exportförderung?
- Roosevelt verrät Amerika!
- Warum wir kämpfen und siegen!
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Chile
- Active from
- 1890
- Active to
- 1945
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 17
- Total plays
- 459
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density
· 1988 · cited 94,971x
- Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation
· 2011 · cited 55,891x
- Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
· 2009 · cited 45,567x
- Regression Shrinkage and Selection Via the Lasso
· 1996 · cited 38,950x
- The PHQ-9
· 2001 · cited 38,348x
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Quotes
- “Stand us against a wall and shoot us, well and good, you are victors. But why should I be brought before a Tribunal like a c-c-c-... I can't even get the word [criminal] out!”
- “When a Russian pig has to be beaten, it would be the ordinary German worker who would have to do it.”
- “The Weimar system appeared to me like a father who locks his little boys in a room and stirs them up against one another and says: 'Beat each other up as much as you want.'”
- “We National Socialists have monopolized all resources and all our energies during the past seven years so as to be able to be equipped for the supreme effort of battle.”
- “The trade unions that were swayed by Marxist teaching did not want social peace. They calculated that their chances of acquiring political power would improve with the growing dissatisfaction of the workers. One of the first necessities with which the Hitler Government found itself faced was that of dissolving the organizations that kept alive the antagonism between employers and employees. They were replaced by the Labour Front.”
- “You know we have this new poison gas - I've heard about it. The Fuehrer must do it. He must use it. Now he has to do it!”
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Key facts
- Preceded by
- Adolf Hitler
- Succeeded by
- Position abolished
- Leader
- Adolf Hitler
- 1940 1945
- Reichskommissar for Social Housing Construction
- 1933 1945
- Member of the Prussian State Council
- June december 1932
- Reichsinspecteur of the Nazi Party
- 1930 1933
- Member of the Reichstag
- Born
- ( 1890-02-15 ) 15 February 1890, Niederbreidenbach , Germany
- Died
- 25 October 1945 (1945-10-25) (aged 55), Nuremberg , Germany
- Cause of death
- Suicide by hanging
- Party
- Nazi Party
- Spouse s
- Elisabeth Schmidt ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1921 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1938 ) , Inge Spilcker ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1938 ; died 1942 )
- Alma mater
- University of Jena University of Bonn University of Münster
- Known for
- Head of the German Labour Front (1933–1945)
- Allegiance
- German Empire
- Branch service
- Imperial German Army
- Years of service
- 1914–1920
- Rank
- Leutnant
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Bundesarchiv Bild 183-2008-0922-501, Robert Ley.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1890-02-15
- date of death
- 1945-10-25
- name in native language
- Robert Ley
- floruit
- 1942-00-00
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Article
Robert Ley ( German: [ˈʁoːbɛʁt ˈlaɪ]; 15 February 1890 – 25 October 1945) was a German Nazi politician and head of the German Labour Front during its entire existence, from 1933 to 1945. He also held many other high positions in the Nazi Party, including Gauleiter, Reichsleiter and Reichsorganisationsleiter.
The son of a farmer from the Rhine Province, Ley saw action in both the eastern and western fronts of the First World War and received the Iron Cross Second Class. After the war, he resumed his studies in chemistry, obtained his doctorate, and worked for IG Farben as a food chemist. Radicalised following the French occupation of the Ruhr, Ley joined the Nazi Party in 1925 and subsequently became the Gauleiter of Southern Rhineland (later Rhineland). Steadily rising through the ranks, he was elected to the Reichstag in 1930, and replaced Gregor Strasser as Reichsorganisationsleiter in 1932.