Gottfried Flach

Ludwig Christian Gottfried Flach (born December 22, 1904 in Stuttgart , † March 12, 1979 in Goslar ) was a German engineer and politician ( NSDAP ).

Life

Flach attended secondary school from 1911 to 1915 and grammar school in Frankfurt am Main from 1915 to 1924 . From 1924 to 1929 he studied at the Technical University of Darmstadt and graduated with a degree in engineering. From October 1929 he worked at the United Steelworks AG in Dortmund. After the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933, he was Director of the Dortmund gas Werke AG and Dortmunder water factory GmbH, which as from the summer of 1939 Dortmunder Stadtwerke firmierten AG.

During the Second World War he did military service from February 1, 1940 to early 1941 and again from March 10, 1942 to February 1944. His last rank was a non-commissioned officer. From April 1, 1944 until the end of the war, he was military district commissioner of the Speer Ministry for the Gau Westfalen-Süd . After the war he was interned in Recklinghausen from April 18, 1945 to November 10, 1947. The indictment before the 2nd Recklinghausen Arbitration Chamber that he had been political director as Gauamtsleiter für Technik ended on September 30, 1947 with an acquittal because he had not held this position. On March 28, 1950, he was classified as a minor offender (probation group) as part of the denazification process . On June 19, 1951, it was downgraded to the fellow travelers category . This downgrade was confirmed on January 29, 1952.

Since July 1950 he was a technical employee, later a senior engineer at a company in Iserlohn. Since 1961 he lived in Goslar.

politics

On March 1, 1930 he joined the Dortmund local group of the NSDAP (membership number 218320). From the summer of 1930 he was section leader in Dortmund-Süd, from March 1, 1931 he was the local group leader in Dortmund, where he was also the USchlA chairman from January 1932 . From September 1, 1932 to November 30, 1934 he was NSDAP district leader in Dortmund. From April 3, 1933 to October 2, 1933, he was head of the city council in Dortmund and from January 1, 1934 to 1944, councilor there. In 1933 he was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Westphalia and was a deputy member of the Provincial Committee. From April 1933 to July 10, 1933 he was also a deputy member of the Prussian State Council . He was initially of the Protestant denomination and from 1937 onwards he called himself a believer in God.

literature

• Alfred Bruns (Ed.), Josef Häming (compilation): The Members of the Westphalia Parliament 1826–1978 (= Westphalian source and archive directories, Volume 2). Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe, Münster 1978, p. 272.
• Joachim Lilla : The Prussian State Council 1921–1933. A biographical manual. With a documentation of the State Councilors appointed in the “Third Reich” (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 13). Droste, Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 3-7700-5271-4 , p. 42.