Albert Broschell

Albert Broschell (born April 15, 1908 in Willkischken , Tilsit district ; † November 15, 1980 ) was a Memel German politician (“Socialist People's Community of the Memel Region”, GB / BHE , GDP ).

Live and act

Broschell was born in 1908 when Willkischken was still part of the East Prussian district of Tilsit . Because of the Versailles Treaty the place in 1920 arrived at the League of Nations administration standing Memel , where he became county Pogegen belonged. After the expulsion of the French League of Nations troops in early 1923 and the subsequent annexation by Lithuania , Willkischken became part of the Lithuanian state. Broschell was a locksmith by trade and at the end of the 1930s mayor of Willkischken. In the election on December 11, 1938, he was elected to the Seimelis as a representative of the National Socialist-oriented "Socialist People's Community of the Memelland" on the Memelland unity list, to which he belonged until the annexation of the Memelland by the German Reich in March 1939. During the Second World War he did military service and was then taken prisoner by the Soviets, from which he was released in 1949, suffering from tuberculosis .

After his release, Broschell came to West Germany with his family as a displaced person and settled in Duisburg , where he again worked as a locksmith. He was involved in the displaced party GB / BHE . He ran unsuccessfully for this and the All- German Party , which emerged from the merger with the German party in 1961, in the federal elections in 1957 , 1961 (each in the Bundestag constituency Duisburg II ) and 1969 (on the North Rhine-Westphalian state list).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Albert Broschell † . In: Memeler Dampfboot Nr. 12 from December 1980, p. 195. (Accessed April 24, 2017).
2. ^ Biographical note in the "Ortsfamilienbuch Memelland", accessed on April 10, 2017.
3. ↑ Biographical note on www.kgparl.de, accessed on 10 April 2017th