Rudolf Hess facts for kids
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Rudolf Hess
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| Rudolf Heß | |
(1933)
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| Deputy Führer of the Nazi Party | |
| In office 21 April 1933 – 12 May 1941 |
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| Deputy | Martin Bormann |
| Führer | Adolf Hitler |
| Preceded by | None (office established) |
| Succeeded by | Martin Bormann (as Chief of the Party Chancellery) |
| Reichsleiter | |
| In office 1933–1941 |
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| Leader | Adolf Hitler |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Rudolf Walter Richard Hess
26 April 1894 Alexandria, Egypt |
| Died | 17 August 1987 (aged 93) Spandau, West Berlin |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | Nazi Party (1920–1941) |
| Spouse(s) |
Ilse Pröhl
(m. 1927)(22 June 1900 – 7 September 1995) |
| Children | Wolf Rüdiger Hess (18 November 1937 – 14 October 2001) |
| Alma mater | University of Munich |
Walter Richard Rudolf Hess (Heß in German) (26 April 1894 – 17 August 1987) was a high ranking Nazi leader, and one of Adolf Hitler's closest men. He was the third man after Hermann Göring in the Third Reich from 1933 to 1941.
Early life
Rudolf Hess was born in Alexandria, Egypt, but moved back to Germany in 1908.
He joined the army in World War I and was trained as a pilot.
In 1920 he joined the Nazi Party and in 1922 he also became a member of the SA.
He flew to Scotland during World War II and was arrested. After the war he was tried at the Nuremberg Trials, and sentenced to life imprisonment.
He died in the Allied Military Prison, Spandau, Berlin in 1987.
Images for kids
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Hess (right) with his geopolitics professor, Karl Haushofer, c. 1920
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Rudolf Hess (2nd from left, behind Heinrich Himmler) was an early supporter of the Nazi Party.
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Hitler speaks at a party rally in Munich, 1925
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Hess, Heinrich Himmler, Phillip Bouhler, Fritz Todt, Reinhard Heydrich, and others listening to Konrad Meyer at a Generalplan Ost exhibition, 20 March 1941
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The wreckage of Hess's Messerschmitt Bf 110
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Part of the fuselage of Hess's Bf 110. Imperial War Museum (2008)
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Hess in his cell at Nuremberg, November 1945
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Hess (left) and Joachim von Ribbentrop in the defendants' box at the Nuremberg Trials
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Changing of the guard at Spandau Prison, mid-1980s
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Graffiti on a hoarding outside Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in West Berlin in 1981. The comments read "Freedom for Rudolf Hess" and "Do you also want total war?"
See also
- In Spanish: Rudolf Hess
