Andreas Bolek
Andreas Bolek (born May 3, 1894 in Weinbergen near Lemberg ; † May 5, 1945 in Magdeburg ) was a Gauleiter of the NSDAP , police president and SS leader, most recently with the rank of SS brigade leader .
Life
The son of a teacher attended elementary school and lower grammar school in Lemberg. He then graduated from the commercial academy and learned the trade. In 1914 he went to the First World War as a volunteer in the Austro-Hungarian Army . After the end of the war he returned to Linz in 1919 , where he married and later had four daughters. In 1923 he found a job at the Linz Electricity and Tram Company (ESG) , where he later also became a general staff representative and was a member of the board of directors.
In the same year he also joined the NSDAP , and as a former front officer he soon succeeded in becoming a local SA leader and in July 1923 he took over the state command of the SA.
After the majority of the Austrian National Socialists submitted to Adolf Hitler's leadership in 1926 , Bolek was appointed Deputy Gauleiter of Upper Austria . When Alfred Proksch , the Gauleiter, was appointed Deputy Country Leader in 1927, Bolek took his place at the head of the Gauleitung. In 1932 he became leader of the Nazi parliamentary group in the Linz City Council , but the following year the Austrian government banned the NSDAP . Bolek moved across the German border and from then on worked from Munich and Passau . With the support of Bolek, however, Hitler gradually pushed ahead with the dissolution of the Austrian provincial leadership and in 1934 Bolek's Gauleiter was ended. His farewell took place in "full honor" and he was allowed to continue to call himself Gauleiter. He was naturalized in the German Reich in 1935 . His NSDAP membership number was 50,648.
So he was able to become a member of the Reichstag for constituency 33 ( Hesse ) on March 29, 1936 . On November 9, 1937, he joined the SS (SS no. 289.210) and at the same time was accepted into the General SS with the rank of SS Brigade Leader . On December 1, 1937, he was entrusted with the administration of the position of Police President of Magdeburg , a position which he occupied in full from November 7, 1938. His party career did not end there. He was appointed SS leader in the SD main office and in 1939 he became an honorary member of the People's Court for a period of five years.
In April 1945 the Allies occupied Magdeburg as far as the western bank of the Elbe, until May 5, 1945 Soviet troops marched into Magdeburg as far as the eastern bank of the Elbe, whereupon Andreas Bolek shot himself. Posthumous proceedings were initiated to implement the 131 Act .
literature
- Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS generals. Himmler's reliable vassals , Hermagoras-Verlag, Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7086-0578-4 .
- Nazi apologetic: Karl Höffkes : Hitler's political generals. The Gauleiter of the 3rd Reich; a biographical reference work. Grabert-Verlag , Tübingen 1997, ISBN 3-87847-163-7 .
- Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).
Web links
- Andreas Bolek in the database of members of the Reichstag
Individual evidence
- ^ State archive Ludwigsburg , file Andreas Bolek Bü 287 in the holdings EL 50/1 II (State Police Directorate Stuttgart I: Personnel files )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bolek, Andreas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian politician (NSDAP), MdR, Gauleiter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 3, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vineyards near Lviv |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 5, 1945 |
| Place of death | Magdeburg |