Robert Ley (German: ; 15 February 1890 – 25 October 1945), a German politician and labour-union leader during the Nazi era, headed the German Labour Front from 1933 to 1945. He also held many other high positions in the German Nazi Party, including Gauleiter, Reichsleiter and Reichsorganisationsleiter.
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Robert Ley (German: ; 15 February 1890 – 25 October 1945), a German politician and labour-union leader during the Nazi era, headed the German Labour Front from 1933 to 1945. He also held many other high positions in the German Nazi Party, including Gauleiter, Reichsleiter and Reichsorganisationsleiter.
In 1933, after all German trade unions were dissolved, Robert Ley (1890–1945) established the Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF; German Labor Front). As head of the DAF, whose membership totaled 25 million, Ley was known as the "undisputed dictator of labor" in Germany.
Robert Ley, (born Feb. 15, 1890, Niederbreidenbach, Ger.—died Oct. 25, 1945, Nürnberg), Nazi politician and head of German labour, who helped supervise the recruitment of slave labour during World War II.
Robert Ley was a high ranking Nazi leader who oversaw the regime’s labour program. Ley was born in Niederbreitenbach in 1890, the son of a farmer with 11 children. Academically gifted, he studied at several universities and obtained a doctorate in biological and nutritional chemistry, graduating in 1920. Ley put his studies on hold to join ...
Robert Ley Speech (31 March 1939) Background: Dr. Robert Ley held a number of positions in Hitler’s Germany. He was Reichsorganisationsleiter (Reich Organization Leader), responsible among other things for much of internal party education. He was also head of the German Labor Front (DAF), the Nazi “labor union.”.
Robert Ley and the Nazi Party. In 1928 Hitler appointed Ley as the Gauleiter of Cologne. He was elected to the Prussian Landtag and in 1930 to the Reichstag. (7) In the spring of 1932 he was sentenced to three months in prison for assaulting Otto Wels, the Chairman of the Social Democrat Party (SDP).
Robert Ley (* 15. Februar 1890 in Niederbreidenbach , Rheinprovinz ; † 25. Oktober 1945 in Nürnberg ) war im Rahmen seiner Positionen als Reichsleiter der NSDAP sowie Leiter des Einheitsverbands Deutsche Arbeitsfront einer der führenden Politiker zur Zeit des Nationalsozialismus .