Heinz Jost
Heinz Jost was an SSBrigadefhrer and a Generalmajor of Police. Jost was involved in espionage matters as the Sicherheitsdienst or section chief of office VI of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt or RSHA. Jost was also responsible for genocide in eastern Europe as commander of Einsatzgruppe A from March to September 1942.
Heinz Jost was born in the northern Hessian Homberg Ortsteil Holzhausen in Hersfeld in 1904, to a middleclass Catholic and nationalistic family. Heinrich Jost, Heinzs father, was a pharmacist and later became a fellow NSDAP member. Jost attended grammar school in Bensheim, graduating in 1923. As a student he became a member, and eventually a leader, of the Jungdeutsche Orden , a nationalistic paramilitary movement. Jost studied law and economics at the Universities of Giessen and Munich. He completed his civil service examination in May 1927. Heinzs legal career began as a legally trained civil servant employed in Hesse. He later worked in the district court at Darmstadt.
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