Erwin Hasbach

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Erwin Hasbach
Hasbach Palace in Białystok

Erwin Hasbach (born June 21, 1875 in Białystok ; † January 28, 1970 in Weingarten ) was a politician of the German minority in Poland .

Life

Hasbach came from a family originally in the Bergisches Land and there since the 13th century on the Hasbacher Höfe near Olpe . His father came to Białystok in Poland as a manufacturer . He himself studied agricultural sciences at the Universities of Halle and Berlin. In Halle he was a member of the Corps Guestphalia . After completing his studies, he settled as a farmer.

During the First World War he was the leader of a squadron of the 2nd Leibhusaren Regiment from Gdansk .

In 1920 he, like many other domain tenants, lost his royal domain at Schloss Birglau at the direction of the Polish government and took over the lease of the Hermannshof estate at Preußisch Stargard in Pomerania.

Immediately after the war, faced with the choice of giving up German or Polish citizenship , he decided to give up German citizenship in order to be able to support the German minority in Poland . Since 1918 he was a member of the ethnic group leadership . From 1920 to 1922 he was the leader of the German parliamentary group in the Sejm and from 1922 to 1930 a member of the Polish Senate . In the course of his political career, he was repeatedly at the center of the German-Polish tensions of the interwar period .

Since October 18, 1939, Hasbach was an honorary holder of the NSDAP's golden party badge .

At the end of the Second World War , Hasbach fled and was arrested in Mecklenburg. Several years later he fled to the Federal Republic, where he lived as "Chairman of West Prussia in Baden-Württemberg" in Weingartshof near Ravensburg .

Web links

Commons : Erwin Hasbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Hasbach Palace in Białystok  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus D. Patzwall : The Golden Party Badge and its Honorary Awards 1934-1944, Studies of the History of Awards Volume 4 , Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt 2004, ISBN 3-931533-50-6 , p. 70
personal data
SURNAME Hasbach, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Polish politician, member of the Sejm
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Białystok
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1970
Place of death Weingarten (Württemberg)