Carl Pollesch
Carl Pollesch (* 1888 ;? † 1945) was a German politician From 1937 to 1945 the district mayor of Berlin district Tempelhof and longtime Nazi -member.
Life
He was the son of Johann August Albert Pollesch and Emilie Caroline Charlotte Mantel and a businessman by profession. He lived in Berlin-Steglitz first at Am Eichgarten 3 and later at Stindestraße 1.
He joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1930 and had party number 231 815.
In the elections to the Berlin city council in March 1933, he did not win a seat, but was appointed an unpaid member of the city council by Wilhelm Kube , President of the Province of Brandenburg , effective June 7, 1933 .
On July 19, 1933, Pollesch was appointed as a paid member of the city council as a state commissioner to the district city council. At first he mainly administered the school system and public education as well as market, commercial and electoral affairs, and later also the tax, finance and property offices.
Even after June 29, 1934, he remained a provisional full-time district councilor and in mid-1935 took over from Roland Faulhaber (also a member of the NSDAP) as the district mayor's deputy and became the first district councilor.
In April 1936 Pollesch was personally confirmed by Adolf Hitler as NSDAP district leader .
In June 1937, after the resignation of the previous district mayor, Reinhard Bruns-Wüstefeld , he took over his business and was appointed mayor of the Tempelhof district on November 22, 1937 by Berlin's mayor Julius Lippert .
In January 1944 he received the War Merit Cross 1st Class donated by Adolf Hitler and in April 1944 in the execution with swords.
In 1945 he was arrested by the British Allies and handed over to the Soviet Union . From there his trail is lost and he was probably taken to a Soviet camp and executed there. In contrast, other sources report that he is said to have committed suicide in Berlin-Steglitz.
His predecessor in office was Reinhard Bruns-Wüstefeld ( DVP ) from 1924 to 1937, his successor Jens Nydahl ( SPD ) from 1945 to September 1947.
literature
- Maria Curter: Berlin's district mayor . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 7, 1997, ISSN 0944-5560 , p. 125 ( luise-berlin.de ).
Web links
- Archive (PDF; 182 kB) Institute for Contemporary History
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stefan Krautschick. In: Tempelhofer Pohleschein , August 15, 1987
- ↑ Kurt Schilde . In: From Columbia House to School Burgring . Berlin 1987, pp. 14-36
Emil Groß (1921–1925) | Reinhard Bruns-Wüstefeld (1925–1937) | Carl Pollesch (1937–1945) | Willy Kramm (1945) | Jens Nydahl (1945–1947) | Otto Burgemeister (1947–1951) | Hermann Fischer (1951–1953) | Alfred Homeyer (1953–1955) | Karl Theodor Schmitz (1955–1959) | Kurt Mürre (1959–1965) | Bernhard Hoffmann (1965–1975) | Siegmund Jaroch (1975–1991) | Wolfgang Krueger (1991–1997) | Dieter Hapel (1998-2000)
Since January 1, 2001, the Tempelhof district has been part of the new Tempelhof-Schöneberg district .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pollesch, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1888 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1945 |