Eberhard Taubert

Eberhard Taubert (11 May 1907 in Kassel – 2 November 1976) was a lawyer and antisemitic Nazi propagandist. He joined the Nazi Party on 1 November 1931 (membership number 712,249). At the same time, he joined the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Nazi paramilitary unit where he served on the staff of SA-Gruppe Berlin-Brandenburg with the rank of SA-Sturmführer. At the beginning of 1932, Taubert became head of the legal department of Gau Berlin and the anti-Bolshevism advisor to Joseph Goebbels, the Gauleiter. He became involved in both anti-Communist and anti-Jewish propaganda. From 1933 to 1945 he worked as a high official in the Propagandaministerium under Goebbels, where he headed its anti-Komintern department. His nickname in Nazi circles was Dr. Anti. From 1939 he headed the Institute for the Study of the Jewish Question. He worked in 1940 on the script for the antisemitic propaganda film Der ewige Jude (English: The Eternal Jew). He also served as a lay judge at the People's Court.