Emil Leweke

Emil Leweke (born March 12, 1893 in Detmold ; † December 14, 1959 there ) was NSDAP district leader in Steinfurt and district administrator of the Halle district.

Live and act

Emil Leweke was born as the son of the married couple Philipp (farmer) and Margarete Morlinghaus. He graduated from high school in Detmold and joined the customs service at the Detmold customs office in 1912 as a customs candidate. He did his military service as a one-year volunteer and took part in the battles of the First World War in France, Russia, Galicia and Romania from August 2, 1914 until the end of the war in 1918 . Leweke was a company commander from 1915 until the end of the war. He went back to the customs service and worked in the tax investigation service from 1929. From June 2, 1923 to November 9, 1923 Leweke was a member of the NSDAP , then in the Völkisch-Sozial Block and returned to the NSDAP in April 1928. He was a supporting member of the SS and also a member of the SA ( SA-Sturmbannführer honorary). Leweke ran for the Prussian Landtag and the Reichstag in 1932 and 1933 . On October 1, 1932, he became district leader of the NSDAP in Steinfurt and remained in this office until the spring of 1934. On March 28, 1934, he was initially appointed as a substitute, on October 15, 1934, and on April 24, 1935, finally appointed district administrator of the Halle district . He remained in this position until the end of the war - interrupted by military service from 1940 to January 1944 as battalion commander. From 1934 to 1940 Leweke was district judge of the NSDAP in Warendorf. He fell into English captivity and was interned in the Neumünster and Eselheide camps from May 1945 to October 13, 1947 . In the denazification process , he was classified in category IV (fellow travelers) because his political behavior remained impeccable and, as district administrator, he opposed the party's intentions.

Military awards

• Iron Cross 2nd class
• Princely Lippe War Merit Cross
• Hessian bravery medal
• Wound Badge ( Wounded Twice)

literature

• Publications of the State Archives of North Rhine-Westphalia, Series C: Sources and Research, Volume 48: Wolfgang Stelbrink: The district leaders of the NSDAP in Westphalia and Lippe, published by the North Rhine-Westphalian State Archive in Münster.
• Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918 to 1945/46). Biographisches Handbuch , Münster 2004, p. 205.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Stelbrink, Biography Leweke, p. 166 f.