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Kreisleiter Peter Berns (* May 18th, 1907 in Düsseldorf - † KIA July 3rd, 1941 in Mogilew) was a German Feldwebel in the Luftwaffe during World War II. He was also a Politician in the NSDAP.

Life
Berns attended elementary and secondary school in Mettmann. He attended the commercial college and made ​​an apprenticeship in Wuppertal, where he also worked after completing his training the first two years. On 31 August 1925 he joined the NSDAP and the SA at. In December 1928, Berns leader of the local branch of the NSDAP Mettmanner and also the Mettmanner SA-shock troops. On May 1, 1929 Bern district leader of the NSDAP in Elberfeld-Barmen.

Berns made ​​in 1930 graduated from high school and began following a study of economics in Frankfurt. That same year, he became leader of the NSDAP Frankfurt university group. A year later, Berns left the University of Frankfurt and studied political science at the University of Vienna, where he completed his doctorate at the July 6, 1934. After the events of July coup, he was expelled from Austria. He returned to his homeland and became Gauleiter of Karl Friedrich Florian appointed district leader Mettmann. In the general election on March 29, 1936 Berns was elected Reichstag deputies. Also in the by-election on 4 December 1938, he was a member of the list of the NSDAP and therefore remained in the Nazi Reichstag represented. As on 7 March 1938, the NSDAP circle Mettmann and Solingen were merged and from then on the circle Niedernberg formed, Berns was appointed head of the new circle.

A year later, Berns was in the staff of Rudolf Hess, called the deputy of Adolf Hitler. Shortly before the start of World War II Berns was as a sergeant of the Air Force confiscated. He died in 1941 at the eastern front.