Rudolf Hess

Rudolf Hess

Rudolf Hess

A German politician, military officer, and senior Nazi Party official. As a close associate of Adolf Hitler, he rapidly rose in rank within the Nazi Party and served as Deputy Führer (Stellvertreter des Führers) from 1933 to 1941. Acting as Hitler's personal secretary, he was involved in party organization and policy, signing key legislation of the Nazi regime, including the Nuremberg Laws. In 1941, during World War II, he flew to Britain on his own initiative in an attempt to negotiate peace, whereupon he was arrested. After the war, he was found guilty of crimes against peace and conspiracy at the Nuremberg Trials and sentenced to life imprisonment. He was incarcerated in Spandau Prison from 1947 until his death in 1987 at the age of 93.

Timeline

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Year Rudolf Hess
1894
Birth of Rudolf Hess (Period: April 26, 1894, Location: El-Ibrahimiyya district, Alexandria, Egypt (Khedivate of Egypt under British influence at the time))
1914
World War I (Age: 19 years old, Period: 1914–1918, Location: Western Front, Belgium and France)
Volunteering for World War I (Age: 19 years old, Period: 1914, Location: Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire)
1919
Participation in Postwar Right-Wing/Nationalist Movements (Age: 24 years old, Period: 1919–1920, Location: Munich, Germany)
1921
Bürgerbräukeller Bombing (Age: 27 years old, Period: November 4, 1921, Location: Hofbräuhaus in Munich, Germany)
1923
Joining the Nazi Party (Age: 29 years old, Period: August 1923, Location: Bavaria, Germany)
Beer Hall Putsch (Age: 29 years old, Period: November 8–9, 1923, Location: Munich, Germany)
1924
Imprisonment in Landsberg Prison after the Beer Hall Putsch (Age: 29 years old, Period: 1924–1925, Location: Landsberg am Lech, Bavaria, Germany)
1925
Appointment as Hitler's Personal Secretary (Rudolf Hess, Age: 30 years old, Period: April 1925, Location: Munich, Germany)
1927
Marriage (Rudolf Hess, Ilse Pröhl, Age: 33 years old, Period: December 20, 1927, Location: Palais Bruckmann in Munich, Germany)
1932
Appointment as Chairman of the Nazi Party Central Political Commission (Rudolf Hess, Age: 38 years old, Period: December 1932, Location: Munich, Germany)
1933
Appointment as Deputy Führer (Rudolf Hess, Age: 38 years old, Period: April 21, 1933, Location: Berlin and Nazi Party Headquarters, Germany)
1935
Involvement in the Nuremberg Laws (Age: 41 years old, Period: September 1935, Location: Nuremberg, Germany)
1939
World War II (Age: 44 years old, Period: 1939–1945, Location: UK, France, North Africa, Mediterranean, Atlantic, etc.)
Outbreak of World War II and Confirmation of the Line of Succession (Age: 45 years old, Period: September 1, 1939, Location: Berlin, Germany)
1941
Hess's Flight to Scotland and Peace Overtures (Age: 47 years old, Period: May 10–11, 1941, Location: From Augsburg, Germany via North Sea to Scotland)
Solo Flight to Scotland (Age: 47 years old, Period: May 10, 1941, Location: From Augsburg, Germany to South Lanarkshire, Scotland)
1945
Nuremberg Trials (Age: 51 years old, Period: November 1945 – October 1946, Location: Nuremberg, Germany)
1946
Life Sentence at the Nuremberg Trials (Age: 52 years old, Period: September 30 – October 1, 1946, Location: Nuremberg, Germany)
1947
Long-Term Imprisonment at Spandau Prison (Age: 52 years old, Period: 1947–1987, Location: Spandau Prison, West Berlin)
Imprisonment in Spandau Prison (Age: 53 years old, Period: July 1947 – August 1987, Location: Spandau Prison, West Berlin, Germany)
1987
Death of Rudolf Hess (Age: 93 years old, Period: August 17, 1987)
Death in Spandau Prison (Age: 93 years old, Period: August 17, 1987, Location: Spandau Prison, West Berlin)

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