August Utta

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August Utta, around 1936

August Utta (born June 5, 1886 in Augustynow in Congress Poland ; † December 28, 1940 in Groß-Okup in the Lask district , Reichsgau Wartheland ) was a politician of the German minority in Poland and a member of the Sejm of the Second Polish Republic .

Life

After attending the Warsaw Evangelical Teachers' College , August Utta worked in Congress Poland as a primary school teacher and cantor . During the First World War he served as a field shear in the Imperial Russian Army . After the establishment of the Second Polish Republic in November 1918, Utta became headmaster. From 1919 to 1927 he was a city councilor in Lodz .

As a member of parliament, he represented the German Socialist Labor Party of Poland (DSAP) in the Polish National Assembly . In 1923 Utta left the party. In 1923 he played a key role as a founding member of the Łódź German-language daily newspaper Freie Presse .

From 1922 to 1928 and from 1930 to 1932 he was a member of the Sejm and then a member of the Senate of the Republic of Poland for five years . Utta was strongly committed to the school system of the German minority in Poland . In 1931 and 1932 he wrote several petitions to the League of Nations in Geneva , in which he pointed to the violation of minority protection in Poland.

From June 1, 1924 to 1938, he was chairman of the German People's Association in Poland . In this function he represented the association from 1925 to 1938 at the European Nationalities Congress in Geneva and Vienna. In addition, Utta had been a leading member of the Synodal Council of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland since 1919 .

After giving up his political offices, he lived as a farmer on his farm in Groß-Okup, where he also died.

literature

  • Jürgen Hensel: Poles, Germans and Jews in Lodz 1820–1939. A difficult neighborhood. Fiber, 1999.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Wilfried Gerke: Contributions to the history of the Germans in Poland during the Second World War 1939–1945. Herne 2008, p. 67.
  2. ^ Eduard Kneifel: History of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland. Niedermarschacht 1964, p. 230.
  3. ^ Eduard Kneifel: History of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland. Niedermarschacht 1964, p. 211.
  4. ^ Helga Wermuth: Max Winkler - A helper of state press policy in the Weimar Republic. Dissertation. Munich 1975, p. 69.
  5. ↑ Submission by Senator Utta, Lodz, to the High League of Nations Council on safeguarding the rights of the German minority in the former congress Poland in the field of schools , Lodz, 1931, OCLC 82023880
  6. ^ Albert Stefan Kotowski : Poland's policy towards its German minority 1919–1939 , pp. 74, 136, 176 ( online at Google Book Search ).
  7. ^ Mads Ole Balling : From Reval to Bucharest - Statistical-Biographical Manual of the Parliamentarians of the German Minorities in East Central and Southeastern Europe 1919-1945, Volume 1, 2nd Edition . Copenhagen 1991, ISBN 87-983829-3-4 , pp. 189 . ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
  8. ↑ Werner Hasselblatt : Nation and State . Volume 14. Braumüller Verlag, 1940, p. 169.
  9. ^ Eduard Kneifel : History of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland. Niedermarschacht, 1964, p. 272.
personal data
SURNAME Utta, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DSAP) and member of the German minority in the Sejm in Poland
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Augustynow , Congress Poland
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1940
Place of death Groß-Okup , Lask district , Reichsgau Wartheland