Georg Joschke

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Georg Joschke (born June 6, 1900 in Breslau ; † November 24, 1983 in Bremen ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

Life

Between the world wars

After attending elementary school, Joschke learned the trade of a businessman. From June 26, 1918 to January 15, 1919 he was a member of the Prussian Army . After the First World War , he initially worked as a self-employed businessman.

As a soldier of volunteer corps, including the Ehrhardt Brigade , he participated in the Volkstumskämpfen in Upper Silesia in part, including the Battle of the St. Anna Berg 1921. mid-twenties he settled in 1922 had come to Poland industrial city Katowice and founded a forwarding it became chairman of the Association of German Freight Forwarders in Poland. Joschke took on Polish citizenship .

He was involved in the board of directors of 1. FC Kattowitz , the leading club of the German minority in Poland . FC striker Ernst Joschke was his younger brother.

In 1932 he took over the office of district leader and deputy chairman of the nationalist and revisionist -oriented Young German Party in Poland in Katowice. He was also the head of organization for the Gau Silesia . From 1938 to September 14, 1939 he was a member of the Ebbinghaus Freikorps (see Special Unit Brandenburg ). In August 1939, according to Polish files, he took part in acts of sabotage in East Upper Silesia together with German divers . The parental forwarding company in Hindenburg on the German side of Upper Silesia served as the basis . The Polish authorities looked for him on a wanted list, whereupon Joschke went into hiding.

In World War II

The department of the Freikorps led by Joschke was supposed to prevent the destruction of the mining and steel works in Eastern Upper Silesia by the retreating Polish troops immediately after the German attack on Poland . According to the German files received in Katowice, he fulfilled this task.

From September 1939 Joschke officiated as district leader of the NSDAP in Katowice. He was also accepted into the SA with the rank of standard leader . On July 7, 1940, he subsequently entered the National Socialist Reichstag , which was elected in April 1938, as a Member of Parliament for Silesia .

He set his particular ambition to make 1. FC Kattowitz one of the leading clubs in the German Reich. He therefore let some of the former Polish national players from Katowice and the surrounding area move into the club, including Ewald Dytko , Wilhelm Gora , Erwin Nytz and Ernst Willimowski , whom he was unable to keep in the club. His conflict with Willimowski is documented by contemporary witnesses.

In March 1941 Joschke was replaced as NSDAP district leader. He entered the Wehrmacht as a simple soldier , allegedly "at his special request". As a soldier he was awarded several medals for bravery, including the EKI and the melee clasp , he was wounded seven times. Without having attended an officers' school, he was promoted to lieutenant .

In May 1943 he returned from the Eastern Front to take over the post of NSDAP district leader in Hindenburg (after 1945: Zabrze). He was the only ethnic German who took up such an office in the " Altreich ". At the end of 1944 he was commissioned to extend the " Ostwall " into the Upper Silesian coal basin. In January 1945, before the Red Army marched in, he managed to flee west. At the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the British, but was released after a few weeks.

After the Second World War

At the end of the 1940s Joschke settled in Bremen, where he worked as an industrial clerk. But he was sentenced to imprisonment for allegedly denouncing a branch manager of Deutsche Bank. He had railed against Goebbels , Göring and Hitler and was sentenced to death by Roland Freisler in 1943 . Joschke was sentenced to three years in prison.

In 1965 he was one of the co-founders of the "traditional association 1. FC Kattowitz", whose members met regularly in Salzgitter . He was in contact with former 1. FC Jewish players who had settled in Tel Aviv ; It is believed that he enabled them to leave in good time before the German invasion of Eastern Upper Silesia in 1939.

literature

  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , p. 285 .
  • Grzegorz Bębnik: Sokoły kapitana Ebbinghausena. Special formation Ebbinghausen w działaniach wojennych na Górnym Śląsku w 1939 t. Katowice 2014. pp. 197–213 (Ed .: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej. Oddział w Katowicach) ISBN 978-83-7629-759-0
  • Gerhard Reichling, Georg Joschke - Entrepreneur-Politician-Soldier, in: Oberschlesischer Kurier [Salzgitter], July 24, 1975, p. 6.
  • Thomas Urban : 1. FC Kattowitz as a model for a radicalizing minority, in: From conflict to competition. German-Polish-Ukrainian football history. Edited by D. Blecking / L. Pfeiffer / R. Traba. Göttingen 2014, pp. 62–68. ISBN 978-3-7307-0083-9

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oberschlesischer Kurier [Salzgitter], July 24, 1975, p. 6.
  2. ↑ Grzegorz Bębnik: Sokoły kapitana Ebbinghausena. Special formation Ebbinghausen w działaniach wojennych na Górnym Śląsku w 1939 t. Katowice 2014., p. 102.
  3. ↑ Thomas Urban: Black eagles, white eagles. German and Polish footballers at the heart of politics . Göttingen 2011, p. 26.
  4. ↑ Szkice Archiwalno-Historyczne [Katowice], 6 (2010), pp. 69–70.
  5. ↑ Grzegorz Bębnik: Sokoły kapitana Ebbinghausena. Special formation Ebbinghausen w działaniach wojennych na Górnym Śląsku w 1939 t. Katowice 2014., pp. 84, 199-200.
  6. ↑ a b c Oberschlesischer Kurier [Salzgitter], July 24, 1975, p. 205.
  7. ^ Kattowitzer Zeitung, March 29, 1940, p. 3.
  8. ↑ Gazeta Wyborcza [Katowice], 3./4. January 1998, p. 28.
  9. ^ Kattowitzer Zeitung, March 3, 1941, p. 2.
  10. ↑ Zabrze 1933-1989. Szkice z dziejów politycznych miasta. Pod. red.Sebastiana Rosenbauma. Katowice 2011, pp. 37-38.
  11. ^ Wolfgang Kraushaar: The Protest Chronicle 1949-1959 , 1996, Vol. 3, p. 1745.
  12. ^ Lothar Gall: Die Deutsche Bank, 1870-1995 , 1995, p. 401.
  13. ^ Oberschlesischer Kurier, November 20, 1965, p. 3.
  14. ↑ Thomas Urban: The 1st FC Katowice as a model for a radicalizing minority, in: From conflict to competition. German-Polish-Ukrainian football history. Edited by D. Blecking / L. Pfeiffer / R. Traba. Göttingen 2014, pp. 67–68.
personal data
SURNAME Joschke, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1983
Place of death Bremen