Schleswig-Holstein’s newly-elected Christian Democratic premier, 41-year-old Kai-Uwe von Hassel, has reappointed Hans Adolf Asbach, an important official of the wartime Nazi terror and murder regime in the Ukraine, as Minister for Social Affairs, Labor and Expellees in his new Cabinet.
Asbach started out to be a lawyer, but never progressed beyond the preparatory examination. Instead, he joined the Nazi Party and by 1934, he had turned into a full-time Nazi Party functionary as Regional Legal Supervisor and Social Policy Advisory of the German Labor Front in all of Pomerania. His Nazi record was so black that, after the war, the Bar Association at Eutin in Schleswig-Holstein refused to admit him to the practice of law. He qualified as a journeyman bricklayer, but soon abandoned it for a political career in the ranks of the Nazi-infested BHE Refugee Party.
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