Josef Terboven

Josef Antonius Heinrich Terboven (May 23, 1898 - May 8, 1945) was a Nazi leader most known for his brutal leadership during the Nazi occupation of Norway. Image File history File links Josef_Terboven. ... Image File history File links Josef_Terboven. ... May 23 is the 143rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (144th in leap years). ... 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... May 8 is the 128th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (129th in leap years). ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... The German military occupation of Norway started when German forces invaded Norway on April 9, 1940 and ended on May 10, 1945, after the capitulation of German forces in Europe. ...

Terboven was born in Essen, the son of minor landed gentry. He served for the German field artillery and nascent air force in World War I and was awarded the Iron Cross. He was dishonorably discharged as a lieutenant. ^{[citation needed]} He studied law and political science for a few years at the universities of Munich and Freiburg, where he first got involved in politics. [Essen], german for Meal [essen], german for eat Essen is the name of the following places: Essen, Germany, one of the major cities of the Ruhr area Essen, Belgium Essen, Netherlands, a village in the province of Groningen German: to eat, eating, food This is a disambiguation page — a navigational... Historically, artillery refers to any engine used for the discharge of projectiles during war. ... An air force is a military organization that primarily operates in aerial warfare. ... Combatants Allies: Serbia, Russia, France, Romania, Belgium, British Empire, United States, Italy, and others Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire Casualties Military dead:5 million Civilian dead:3 million Total dead:8 million Military dead:4 million Civilian dead:3 million Total dead:7 million The First World... A stylized version of the Iron Cross, the emblem of the German Armed Forces The Iron Cross (German: Eisernes Kreuz) is a military decoration of the Kingdom of Prussia, and later of Germany, which was established by King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia and first awarded on 10 March 1813. ... Munich (German: München, (pronounced listen) is the largest city and capital of the German Federal State of Bavaria. ... Freiburg city from Schlossberg Freiburg im Breisgau is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, in the Breisgau region, on the western edge of the southern Black Forest (German: Schwarzwald) with about 214,000 inhabitants. ...

Dropping out of college in 1923, Terboven joined the NSDAP and participated in the abortive Beer Hall Putsch in Munich. When the NSDAP was subsequently outlawed, he found work as an apprentice at a bank for a few years before being laid off in 1925. The Beer Hall Putsch was a failed coup détat which occurred in the evening of Thursday, November 8 to the early afternoon of Friday, November 9, 1923, when the nascent Nazi partys Führer Adolf Hitler, the popular World War I General Erich Ludendorff, and other leaders of... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...

This set the stage for an active career in the Nazi party. Terboven helped establish the party in Essen and became Gauleiter there in 1928. He was part of the Sturmabteilung from 1925. On June 29, 1934, Terboven married Ilse Stahl, Joseph Goebbels' former secretary and mistress. Adolf Hitler was the guest of honor at the wedding. Terboven was made Oberpräsident der Rheinprovinz in 1935 and earned a reputation as a petty and ruthless ruler of the area. The term National Socialism has been used in self-description by a number of different political groups and ideologies, some of which have no connection with the Nazis; see National socialism (disambiguation). ... A Gauleiter was the party leader of a regional branch of the NSDAP (more commonly known as the Nazi Party) or the head of a Gau or of a Reichsgau. ... The seal of SA The (help· info) (SA, German for Storm Division, usually translated as stormtroops or stormtroopers) functioned as a paramilitary organization of the NSDAP – the German Nazi party. ... Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels (October 29, 1897 – May 1, 1945) was Adolf Hitlers Propaganda Minister (see Propagandaministerium) in Nazi Germany. ... (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 and Führer (Leader) of Germany from 1934 until his death. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

He was made Reichskommissar (Commissar) of Norway on April 24, 1940, even before the military invasion was completed on 7 June 1940. He moved into the Norwegian crown prince's residence in Skaugum in September 1940 and made the Stortinget (Norwegian parliament)'s buildings his headquarters; Nazi authorities got the parliament to proclaime the end of the monarchy on 25 September 1940, changing the name of the state to Norway until the pre-war Norwegian constitutional monarchy re-assumed control on 9 May 1945. Reichskommissar (Commissionary of the Empire) was an official title of authorized representative of the Deutsches Reich (after 1871) who was appointed to a special task, e. ... April 24 is the 114th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (115th in leap years). ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... June 7 is the 158th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (159th in leap years), with 207 days remaining. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... Skaugum is the official residence of Crown Prince Haakon of Norway and of his wife Crown Princess Mette-Marit. ... The Storting main building The Storting, or Stortinget, (the Great Assembly), is the parliament of Norway, and is located in Oslo. ... September 25 is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years). ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... May 9 is the 129th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (130th in leap years). ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ...

Although the Nazi authorities instituted a puppet Norwegian regime through the Quisling cabinet, Terboven ruled Norway as if he were dictator. Terboven did not have authority over the 400,000 regular German Army forces stationed in Norway, but did command a force of 6,000, of which 800 were part of the secret police. His aspiration was to set up Fortress Norway that would be the last stand for the Nazi regime. He also planned to set up a concentration camp in Norway, all plans that came to nothing. Look up Quisling in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Quisling is the surname of Vidkun Quisling the leader of the Norwegian fascist party Nasjonal Samling (NS) and a staunch ally of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was executed by firing squad for his crimes. ... A concentration camp is a large detention center created for political opponents, enemy aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. ...

Terboven was hated by the Norwegian populace and earned little respect among his fellow German countrymen. He committed suicide on May 8, 1945 by detonating 50 kilograms of dynamite in his bunker hideout on the Skaugum compound. Terboven blew himself up in the company of the body of the commander of the SS in Norway, General Wilhelm Rediess, who had shot himself earlier the same day. May 8 is the 128th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (129th in leap years). ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... Wilhelm Rediess (October 10, 1900 - May 8, 1945) was the German chief of secret police (General der Polizie) during the German occupation of Norway in the Second World War. ...

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• WorldStatesmen- here Norway