Karl Hans Drechsel

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Karl Hans Drechsel (born March 21, 1904 in Dresden , † December 29, 1946 in the special camp Ketschendorf ) was a German local politician of the NSDAP . He was Lord Mayor of the city of Meissen .

Life

From Easter 1918 to 1924 Karl Hans Drechsel attended the Princely and State School in Meißen , where he took one of the vacancies in the city of Dresden. While still at school he published his first articles as a senior citizen, including a critical article about his school in the January 1922 issue of the sports newspaper Sieg , which among other things led to his early departure from this school. After graduating from the Kreuzschule in Dresden, he worked as a commercial clerk until 1927. He then studied law and political science as a working student at the universities of Leipzig and Tübingen until 1931 .

From 1924 to 1926 Karl Hans Drechsel belonged to the Wikingbund . He joined the NSDAP and the SA in 1930 . In 1930 he became a district speaker in Leipzig , in 1932 a gaured speaker and in 1933 a district trainer of the NSDAP and in 1933 was a member of the local city administration. In 1934 he became mayor of Markranstädt . In November 1935, the Saxon Reich Governor Martin Mutschmann appointed him Lord Mayor of Meissen. As such, he was involved in founding the Heimatwerk Sachsen in Dresden on October 2nd, 1936 , which Arthur Graefe took over as chairman . At the same time, Drechsel was also active as the NSDAP district leader in Meißen. In this function he gave a speech on July 31, 1936, wearing a white sports dress, on the market square in Meißen, when the relay runner presented the Olympic flame to the next runner on the way to Berlin.

After the German occupation of Poland in World War II , Karl Hans Drechsel became city ​​governor of Piotrków (German: Petrikau ) in September 1939 , which had been badly damaged by German air raids. The district chiefs redistributed the scarce living space by creating a ghetto for the Jewish population . Drechsel initially forced 10,000 Jews into 182 houses with 4,178 rooms. In March, 12,397 people were already living in the Petrikau ghetto, caused by further evictions from the surrounding area. In October 1940 he was appointed governor of Kielce . In the following year, he issued an ordinance to set up a separate residential area for Jews in Kielce , where all of them had to move by April 5, 1941. On the day in question, Drechsel declared this residential area an epidemic sanctuary , which was strictly monitored by the police. From mid-1941 Drechsel was in personal union Kreishauptmann of Kielce.

At the beginning of 1945 he was imprisoned for criminal proceedings. In April 1945 Drechsel returned to Meißen without taking up his post as mayor again. After the end of the Second World War he was interned in Soviet detention, where he died at the end of 1946 in the special camp Ketschendorf.

family

Karl Hans Drechsel was married to the doctor's daughter Charlotte Emilie ( Lotti ), née Thiele. The couple had a son.

literature

  • Jonas Flöter: Elite education in Saxony and Prussia. The Princely and State Schools Grimma, Meißen, Joachimsthal and Pforta (1868–1933) . (= Contributions to historical educational research. 38). Böhlau, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20319-1 , p. 470ff.
  • Wolfgang Curilla : The murder of Jews in Poland and the German order police 1939–1945 . Schöningh, Paderborn 2011, ISBN 978-3-506-77043-1 , pp. 526 f .
  • Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen: the German district chiefs in occupied Poland; Career paths, domination practice and post-history . Wallstein, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0477-2 .
  • Rainer H. Thierfelder: Points in time. People, events and thoughts about your own origin. 2014, p. 253ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual reports of the Princely and State School Meissen , 1918, p. 24 and p. 30.
  2. ^ A b Jonas Flöter: Education for the elite in Saxony and Prussia. The Princely and State Schools Grimma, Meißen, Joachimsthal and Pforta (1868–1933). Cologne 2009, p. 470f.
  3. ↑ a b c d Federal Archives , Institute for Contemporary History , Chair for Modern and Contemporary History at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and Chair for the History of East Central Europe at the Free University of Berlin : The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 : Poland September 1939 - July 1941 , Volume 4, edited by Klaus-Peter Friedrich. 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-58525-4 , p. 520, fn. 4
  4. ↑ Elvira Werner : Dialect in the Erzgebirge. 1999, p. 46.
  5. ^ Diethard Hensel: First Olympic torch relay run. Germany July 31, 1936. 2007, p. 88.
  6. ^ Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen. 2009, p. 180.
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Curilla: The murder of Jews in Poland and the German order police 1939-1945. Paderborn 2011, p. 526.
  8. ^ Rainer H. Thierfelder: points in time. People, events and thoughts about your own origin. 2014, pp. 253f, 258f.
personal data
SURNAME Drechsel, Karl Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Drechsel, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician (NSDAP)
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1946
Place of death Special camp Ketschendorf