Alexander Dolezalek

Grave of Alexander Dolezalek and his father Friedrich Dolezalek in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf

Alexander Dolezalek (born February 24, 1914 in Charlottenburg ; † October 12, 1999 in Vlotho / Weder ) was a German lawyer who worked in the SS Race and Settlement Office during the Nazi era and co-founded and lectured at the Pan-European Studienwerk in Vlotho .

Life

Alexander Dolezalek was born in 1914 as the son of the chemist Friedrich Dolezalek and grandson of the railway engineer Karl Dolezalek . Both and Uncle Carl Anton Vincens were university professors. After attending a private preschool, he attended secondary school in Westerland on Sylt , where he spent the first twelve years of his life in the house of his grandmother Paula Maria (née Bomhoff). He then attended the Werner-Siemens-Oberrealschule and the Reform-Real Gymnasium Berlin-Lichtenrade , where he graduated from high school in 1933. He then took part in voluntary labor service and military sports exercises. On November 1, 1933, he joined the SS (membership no. 216 983) and was assigned to SS Unit 12/75 as Unterscharführer .

Dolezalek began to study economics , philosophy , sociology , history and law at the TH Berlin . In the winter semester of 1936 he joined the National Socialist German Student Union . For two semesters during his studies he studied in the Foreign Policy Training House of the NSDAP . He continued his studies in Kiel , where he passed his state examination in law in 1939 .

From February 29, 1940, he was in charge of the planning departments of the SS settlement staffs in Posen and Litzmannstadt within the Race and Settlement Main Office of the SS . In May 1940 he rose to the rank of SS Untersturmführer. On June 29, 1940 he married the doctorate study trainee Luise Fick (born March 14, 1913 in Innsbruck ), who also worked in the Race and Settlement Office of the SS. On October 1, 1940, he switched to the staff of the Race and Settlement Main Office as a leader. In 1941 he was appointed Obersturmführer.

From 1941 to 1942 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier . He ended his frontline deployment as an anti-aircraft soldier as a private in the Air Force Reserve with numerous awards. Son Friedrich Dolezalek was born on February 7, 1941, and Gero was born on January 18, 1943 , both in Posen . On July 1, 1944, Dolezalek was appointed specialist leader of the Waffen SS specialist group "Supplement" with the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer (F) at the SS main office. In April 1945 he took command of the British Freikorps , a unit of the Waffen SS.

In 1954 he was co-founder and until September 30, 1977 lecturer at the Pan-European Studienwerk in Vlotho / Westphalia. During this time he began to build up his collection " Document Cabinet of European History, Present and Future Planning ", which was later bequeathed to the German Historical Museum . His teaching activities ended after a labor court process that was the result of the public discussion about Dolezalek's Nazi past that had been triggered since 1975 by the publications of Polish journalists and West German media reports.

Awards

• Decoration of honor for German people care
• Iron Cross 2nd class
• Iron Cross 1st class
• War Merit Cross 2nd Class
• Air Force Ground Combat Badge

Fonts (selection)

• Dungeon Poems , Document Cabinet Study Collection for European History and Future Planning, Vlotho / Weser 1987
• Right-wing national tendencies in the area of ​​the Federal Republic 1945-1967. A literature compilation, Pan-European Studienwerk e. V., Vlotho / Weser 1967
• The German settlements in Dobruja, taken from the Yearbook of Germans in Bessarabia 1940 , Berlin 1940
• The Germanness in Bessarabia (circular): based on the Russian census of 1897 , Berlin 1940
• Soil types in Dobruja: Overview map according to Stremme: International Soil Map 1925-1937 , Berlin 1940

literature

• Gerd Simon with the participation of Petra Geiling, Dagny Guhr and Ulrich Schermaul: Chronologie Dolezalek, Alexander (PDF; 437 kB), unpublished typescript 2002–2009
• Simon (Hg): Dolezalek, Alexander - What is European? (PDF; 188 kB), unpublished typescript 1995-May 2009
• Neulen, Hans Werner: Europe and the 3rd Reich. Unification efforts in the German sphere of influence 1939-45 , Munich 1987
• Heinemann, Isabel: Race, Settlement, German Blood. The Race and Settlement Main Office of the SS and the Reorganization of European Racial Policy , Göttingen 2003, ISBN 978-3-89244-623-1
• Helmut Skowronek: The Dolezalek case. 1975-1978: the repressed past is also haunted by the Studentenwerk , in: current ostinformationen (Pan-European Studienwerk (ed.)) 1/2004, pp. 49–66

Gifts

• " Document cabinet of European history, present and future planning ", around 70,000 objects, was handed over to the German Historical Museum after his death

Web links

• Document from the SS Settlement Staff Südmark, planning department, author: SS-Obersturmführer Alexander Dolezalek, Posen, January 11, 1942

Individual evidence

1. ^ Adrian Weale: Renegades: Hitler's Englishmen . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994. ISBN 0-7126-6764-4 , page 160
2. ^ Helmut Skowronek: The Dolezalek case. 1975-1978: the repressed past also haunted the Studentenwerk ( memento of the original from July 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: current east information (pan-European study work (ed.)) 1/2004, pp. 49–66. 
3. ↑ A rare stroke of luck. The German Historical Museum receives the Dolezalek Collection from Vlotho , press release of the German Historical Museum dated December 20, 2002, accessed on November 27, 2009