Erich Schellhaus

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Erich Karl Günther Schellhaus (born November 4, 1901 in Bösdorf , Silesia , † February 19, 1983 in Hanover ) was a German administrative officer and politician ( NSDAP , later GB / BHE , GDP , CDU ).

Life and work

Erich Schellhaus was born on November 4, 1901 as the son of a post office clerk in Bösdorf. After attending elementary school and graduating from secondary school in Neisse , he began studying at the Berlin School of Commerce , which he did not graduate. Instead, he switched to banking, trained as a bank clerk and then worked at the Darmstadt and National Bank . In 1926 he entered the administrative service of the city of Schweidnitz and initially worked there as an employee. After he had passed the second administrative examination at the Silesian Civil Service College in Breslau , he embarked on a civil service career. From 1939 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as an officer in the Wehrmacht . After the attack on Poland he worked in various staff units of the 350 Infantry Regiment. In 1940 he took part in the campaign in the west, after the start of Operation Barbarossa in June 1941 as a first lieutenant in the campaign in the east. In 1943 he was assigned to the command staff of the French military commander in Paris, in 1945 he came as a captain to the high command of the Vistula Army Group. According to the results of the study by the Institute for Contemporary History on the founding board of the BdV, he is considered to be heavily burdened by his work in the Eastern War, because as an officer he belonged to a unit in Belarus that was intensively involved in the “fight against partisans” and the “mass murder of Jews” in 1941 was, so that it can be assumed that it was “very likely to be involved in murder operations against the local civilian population”.

After the end of the war, Schellhaus moved to West Germany as a displaced person , settled in Eschede and lived in the parsonage there. In the post-war period he was employed as a forest and moor worker. In 1952 he moved to Hanover. He was involved in associations of expellees, was federal chairman of the Silesian Landsmannschaft from 1955 to 1968 and one of four vice-presidents of the Federation of Expellees (BdV) from 1958 to 1968 .

politics

Schellhaus joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933. He was also a member of the SA. From 1931 to 1934 he was mayor of the municipality of Fiddichow and from 1935 to 1939 he was mayor of the city of Bad Salzbrunn .

In 1950, Schellhaus was one of the founders of the BHE in Lower Saxony . He was first elected to the BHE district board of Celle and later to the GB / BHE federal board. In the 1950s he was a council member of the Eschede community. On November 7, 1952, he replaced the resigned MP Karl Ott in the Lower Saxony state parliament, to which he was a member until 1963.

On June 13, 1951, Schellhaus was appointed Minister for Expellees, Refugees and War Victims to the government of the State of Lower Saxony led by Prime Minister Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf and was also a member of the subsequent government led by Prime Minister Heinrich Hellwege . After the formation of a coalition of DP , CDU and SPD , he left the government on November 19, 1957 and was replaced in his ministerial office by Albert Höft . From May 12, 1959 to June 12, 1963, he was again serving as Minister of Expellees in the state governments headed by Prime Ministers Kopf and Georg Diederichs . After the merger of GB / BHE and DP to form GDP in 1961, he first became a member of the newly founded party, but switched to the CDU in May 1964. In September 1962, Schellhaus demanded a law at the state party convention of the GB / BHE in Nienburg that would criminalize any declarations in which the German eastern territories were renounced as treason with imprisonment or penal institution. Such a law never came into existence.

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Individual evidence

  1. Michael Schwartz: Functionaries with a past. The founding board of the Association of Expellees and the "Third Reich." Oldenbourg, Munich 2013, p. 577f.
  2. Michael Schwartz: Functionaries with a past. The founding board of the Association of Expellees and the “Third Reich”. Oldenbourg, Munich 2013, p. 529.
  3. Stephan A. Glienke: The Nazi past of a later member of the Lower Saxony state parliament. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Hanover 2012, pp. 198f.
  4. ↑ The Nazi past of ministers and prime ministers of Lower Saxony (PDF; 92 kB), Landtag printed matter 16/4667, p. 4.
  5. On your own . In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 1963, pp. 46 ( Online - Mar. 20, 1963 ).