Jakob Sprenger
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Jakob Sprenger (born 24 July 1884 in Oberhausen (near Bad Bergzabern), now in Rhineland-Palatinate; died 8 April 1945 in Kössen (Tyrol, Austria), suicide) was a Nazi politician.
In 1922, the postal inspector Jakob Sprenger became a member of the NSDAP. The militant anti-Semite rose quickly through the ranks, first to Gauleiter of Hesse-Nassau-South in 1927, and by September 1930 to member of the Reichstag.
On 5 May 1933 Sprenger was appointed Reich governor of Hesse and leader of the new Gau of Hesse-Nassau, which included Hesse-Darmstadt. Thanks to the Reichsstatthaltergesetz (Governor's Law) of 30 January 1935, he was able to take over leadership of the provincial government from Philipp Wilhelm Jung. Besides Martin Mutschmann, he was the only governor charged with such a double function.
On 1 September 1939, SA Obergruppenführer Sprenger became Reich Defence Commissar of Defence District XII, and as of 1 December 1943 also in the Gau of Hesse-Nassau. Later there followed Sprenger's appointment as the High President of the new Prussian province of Nassau in 1944.
