Editing Heinz Jost (section)

== Early life ==
Heinz Jost was born in the northern Hessian Homberg (Efze) - Ortsteil Holzhausen - in Hersfeld in 1904, to a middle-class Catholic and nationalistic family.<sup>[1]</sup> Heinrich Jost, Heinz's father, was a pharmacist and later became a fellow [[Nazi Party]] member.<sup>[2]</sup> Jost attended grammar school in Bensheim, graduating in 1923. As a student he became a member, and eventually a leader, of the Jungdeutsche Orden (Young German Order), a nationalistic paramilitary movement.<sup>[3]</sup> Jost studied law and economics at the Universities of Giessen and Munich. He completed his civil service examination in May 1927. Heinz's legal career began as a legally trained civil servant employed in Hesse. He later worked in the district court at Darmstadt.<sup>[4]</sup>