Bernhard von Glisczynski

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Bernhard Franz von Glisczynski (born April 13, 1912 in Berlin , † April 17, 1992 in Dortmund ) was a German civil engineer , manager and monument protector . As head of SS Special Inspection I, from 1944 on he was responsible for the underground relocation of war-related production facilities around Porta Westfalica . Associated with the exploitation and murder of concentration camp inmates were in the set up for this purpose satellite camps of Neuengamme concentration camp .

Life

Bernhard von Glisczynski came from the Pomeranian noble family Glisczynski . He studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Berlin and graduated in 1935 with the main diploma examination. After two years in business as a structural engineer in steel construction, he returned to science. Such was from Glisczynski in the years 1937-1940 Senior Assistant at the Department and Research Institute of Construction and Construction of Georg Garbotz in Berlin. Here he did his doctorate in engineering. on the subject of "concrete road surfaces".

Even before the National Socialists came to power , von Glisczynski joined the NSDAP , and in 1933 the SS . Until 1941, von Glisczynski was commissioned by the General Inspector for German Roads, Fritz Todt , to carry out road, construction and armaments projects within the Todt organization . In September 1941 he became a special leader, later a specialist leader, in SS construction. Within the Main Office for Economic Administration he held the position of Head of Department C VI / 3. In 1944 he was entrusted by Hans Kammler as head of SS special inspection I based in Porta Westfalica with the implementation of a total of seven underground relocations . For this purpose and under his leadership, several satellite concentration camps were set up in Porta Westfalica and the Lengerich satellite camp, which were organizationally assigned to the Neuengamme concentration camp . At the end of the war he had the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer (SS no. 150512).

After the war he was general director of the Dortmund construction company Hanebeck without interruption until 1977 and became known for the renovation, securing and preservation of more than 45 listed buildings in North Rhine-Westphalia , which were actually considered to be no longer salvable and are therefore blown up or demolished should. He began restoring the Kommende Brackel in Dortmund in 1952 . This was followed by securing the gatehouse in Rombergpark in DO-Brünninghausen in the years 1957 to 1959. The gable of the gatehouse leaned sharply forward due to war damage and threatened to bring the building to collapse; the Ministry of Culture forbade salvaging the stones that had already fallen and recommended blasting them. Bernhard von Glisczynski was able to straighten the gable by pressing it again and thus preserve the monument. of Glisczynski among other things, which ensured church of St George in Lunen , the old lock Brake in Lemgo , Herten Castle , Lüdinghausen , Hausmart field in Schwelm , Haus Langendreer in Bochum or Schloss Cappenberg in Selm . Von Glisczynski gained nationwide attention for his unconventional use of the square, 55 m high chimney of the Nachtigall colliery in Witten in the years 1976–1980: The chimney was "nailed" to the rock floor.

Bernhard von Glisczynski was married to Maria von Glisczynski (born September 7, 1919 - October 2, 2016), b. Rettemeier, a sister of Joseph W. Rettemeier . He had three children, including Götz von Glisczynski .

Other activities

  • District chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalia Construction Industry Association, Dortmund
  • Member of the General Assembly of the Dortmund Chamber of Commerce and Industry
  • Deputy Chairman of the Society for Technology and Economics in North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Chairman of the General Assembly of the General Local Health Insurance Fund (AOK) (today: Chairman of the Administrative Board)
  • Chairman of the Dortmund Architects and Engineers Association

Fonts

  • Comparative investigations in the production of full and half-sided concrete pavements. People and Reich, Berlin 1939.
  • (with Torben von Rothe): The Pensacola Lock in Oklahoma (USA). Bauverlag R. Schirmer, Berlin 1940.

literature

  • Albert Speer : The slave state. My discussions with the SS. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-548-33041-X , p. 339 and appendix.
  • Fritz Michael: Dortmund. The profile of a city. Crüwell / Schropp, Dortmund 1969, pp. 120/121.
  • Jan-Erik Schulte: Underground and armaments relocations - The Neuengamme satellite camps in Lengerich and at Porta Westfalica in: Schulte, Jan-Erik (Ed.): Concentration camps in the Rhineland and Westphalia 1933–1945. Between central control and regional initiative. Schöningh, Paderborn 2005, ISBN 978-3506717436 , p. 131ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Jan-Erik Schulte: Underground and armaments relocations - The Neuengamme satellite camps in Lengerich and at the Porta Westfalica . In: Schulte, Jan-Erik (ed.): Concentration camps in the Rhineland and in Westphalia 1933-1945. Between central control and regional initiative. Schöningh, Paderborn 2005, ISBN 978-3506717436 , p. 133
  2. ↑ a b c Lengerich subcamp . Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, accessed on October 11, 2019 (PDF file)
  3. ↑ Construction doctor saved many monuments. In: Ruhr-Nachrichten of January 18, 1986
personal data
SURNAME Glisczynski, Bernhard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Glisczynski, Bernhard Franz von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer, manager and monument protector
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1992
Place of death Dortmund