Jakob Jung

Jakob Jung (27 October 1895 – unknown) was a German Nazi Party official who served in its early days as the Gauleiter of the Saar when it was being administered by France and the United Kingdom under a League of Nations mandate.

Jakob Jung was born in Rückweiler in the Rhenish Palatinate and later lived in Sankt Arnual (today, part of Saarbrücken).

He succeeded Walter Jung, who had unofficially headed the Party in the Saar region up to that point, and was confirmed in these posts on 1 January 1927 by Adolf Hitler.

[1] On 21 April 1929, he resigned his posts in an internal policy dispute within the Saar branch of the Party over the question of opposition to the occupation authorities.

He was opposed by his Party comrade and rival Otto Fried [de], who favored a harder line and accused Jung of cowardice.