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Ley is best known for heading the German Labour Front (DAF), the Nazi-run workers’ union formed in mid-1933. Under his command the DAF changed workplace culture, fixed wages, reduced workers’ rights and grew to more than 25 million members.
In 1936, Robert Ley, the head of the German Workers' Front, addressed an audience on the Nazi economic recovery.
Robert Ley was a German politician during the Nazi era, who headed the German Labour Front from 1933 to 1945. He also held many other high positions in the German Nazi Party, including Gauleiter, Reichsleiter and Reichsorganisationsleiter.
May 26, 2015 · Robert Ley was in charge of the German Labour Front in Nazi Germany. As such Ley was in charge of ‘Strength through Joy’ (Kraft durch Freude), a movement which played a major part in the lives of all German civilians. Ley was born on February 15th1890.
Robert Ley joined the Nazi Party in the 1920s and held a series of party offices, including the position staff chief of NSDAP political organizations. From 1930 on, he was also a member of the Reichstag. After Hitler seized power, Ley led the “Action Committee for the Protection of German Labor,” whose goal was to “coordinate” all ...
Robert Ley (1936) Source: German History in Documents and Images , German Historical Institute, Washington DC. Robert Ley joined the Nazi party in the early 1920s and was a member of the Reichstag in the early 1930s (Robert Ley, Head of the German Labor Front) .
Nazi politician Robert Ley – one of the most famous people in Germany on the eve of World War II – died on this day. Namely, Adolf Hitler personally appointed Robert Ley on the high function of the German Labor Front (Deutsche Arbeitsfront – DAF).
