Edgar Wolf

Edgar Wolf (born August 22, 1882 in Ratibor , † August 1945 in Schwientochlowitz or December 1945 in Beuthen-Eintrachthütte) was a Roman Catholic pastor and German politician (DNVP).

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Wolf was born in 1882 as the son of an elementary school principal. After attending grammar schools in Ratibor and Leobschütz , he studied theology at the University of Breslau from 1903 to 1907 . In June 1907 he was ordained a priest. From 1907 to 1909 Wolf worked as a chaplain in Rauden in Upper Silesia . In 1909 he took up a position as a religion teacher in Liegnitz , where he stayed until 1910. He then taught at the Peiskretscham teacher training college until 1912 . From March 5, 1912 he held the office of pastor in the Markowitz parish in the Ratibor district. In 1914 he joined the Salia-Breslau student association in the Cartell Association of German Catholic student associations .

After the First World War , Wolf joined the German National People's Party (DNVP). On December 5, 1922, after a new election in constituency 10 (Opole), Wolf subsequently entered the first Reichstag of the Weimar Republic , which was elected in June 1920 . In the Reichstag election of May 1924 , Wolf was re-elected, but after renumbering the constituencies he represented constituency 9 (Opole). Although his mandate was apparently declared invalid for a short time in September 1924, he could still remain in the Reichstag until the election in December 1924 , in which his mandate was reconfirmed. He then belonged to the parliament for five years, until November 1929, before resigning his mandate prematurely after a new election in constituency 9 almost a year and a half after the election in May 1928.

From 1932 to April 11, 1934, Wolf was pastor of Benkowitz . He left Benkowitz because he did not like the political sentiments of the villagers.

In January 1945, instead of fleeing from the advancing Red Army , Wolf stayed with three nuns and his own sister in the village of Schönwald near Gleiwitz . While the area was under Soviet administration for the next few months, Wolf held the office of mayor. When the village came under Polish administration, Wolf was arrested by the Polish militia on July 5, 1945 and taken to Gliwice judicial prison, where he was interrogated. He was later taken to a prison camp in Schwientochlowitz, where he died in August of exhaustion - possibly supplemented by a typhus infection .

literature

• Alois Cwik: "Bieńkowice wczoraj i dziś - Berendorf (Benkowitz) yesterday and today" WAW Grzegorz Wawoczny Verlag, Opole / Oppeln 2009 ISBN 978-83-89802-89-7 page 123

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} On the Death of Silesian Priests , 1950 (brochure).
2. ↑ Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : BIORAB online

Web links

• Edgar Wolf in the database of members of the Reichstag