Rudolf Jordan
| Rudolf Jordan | |
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| Gauleiter of Halle-Merseburg | |
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In office 1930–1937 |
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| Preceded by | Paul Hinkler |
| Succeeded by | Joachim Albrecht Eggeling |
| Gauleiter of Magdeburg-Anhalt | |
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In office 1937–1945 |
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| Preceded by | Joachim Albrecht Eggeling |
| Succeeded by | None |
| Reichsstatthalter of the Free State of Anhalt | |
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In office 1937–1945 |
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| Preceded by | Fritz Sauckel |
| Succeeded by | None |
| Reichsstatthalter of the Free State of Brunswick | |
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In office 1937–1945 |
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| Preceded by | Fritz Sauckel |
| Succeeded by | None |
| Minister-President of the Free State of Anhalt | |
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In office 1940–1945 |
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| Preceded by | Alfred Freyberg |
| Succeeded by | None |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 21 June 1902 Großenlüder, Prussia, German Empire |
| Died | 27 October 1988 (aged 86) Munich, Bavaria, Germany |
| Political party | National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) |
Rudolf Jordan (21 June 1902 – 27 October 1988) was a Nazi Gauleiter in Halle-Merseburg and Magdeburg-Anhalt in the time of the Third Reich. After the war, he was sentenced to 25 years in a Soviet Union labour camp. Released from the camp in October 1955, he died in Munich in 1988.
Jordan was born in Großenlüder, Hesse-Nassau. His family's background was in farming, although his father was also a salesman. After finishing Volksschule, Jordan became a worker in the armament industry between 1916 and 1918. He earned so much money doing this that after the First World War, he found himself able to begin training as a teacher in Fulda. He nevertheless got involved in the military, serving from 1920 to 1922 as a temporary volunteer in the Reichswehr. In 1922, Jordan became a member of the Freikorps Oberland, and alongside this service ended his teacher training in 1924. At 22, he was already a Volksschule teacher.
The high joblessness rate in Germany at that time, kept him from finding a teaching job, leading him to take such jobs as workman, office worker or freelancer, among others, at publishing houses and in advertising. Only in 1927 was he able to obtain a teaching job. He worked as a teacher at, among other schools, the "Army Vocational School for Economics and Administration" ("Heeresfachschule für Wirtschaft und Verwaltung") in Fulda.
Already by 1924, Jordan was active as a speaker for the Völkisch-Social Bloc and the German-völkisch Reich Party, without ever becoming a member of either one. Through these rather nationalistically oriented groups, Jordan came into contact with the NSDAP, which he joined in May 1925.
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