Hans Lenk (politician)

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Hans Lenk (born February 3, 1904 in Neuwiese ; † July 1944 ) was a German municipal civil servant and mayor at the time of National Socialism .

Life

Lenk attended elementary school and entered administrative service in 1918. From 1923 he was politically active with the National Socialists. After the NSDAP was banned , he was one of the founders of the “Völkischer Block” in Sosa . After re-admission to the NSDAP, he became a party member in June 1926 ( membership number 38.772). Lenk was active in local politics as district office manager and became mayor of Falkenstein in 1935 .

After the outbreak of the Second World War , Lenk volunteered for “reconstruction work in the east of Germany”. In German-occupied Poland , Lenk was initially deployed in the Radom district of the Generalgouvernement . He held the post of city commissioner in Radomsko , Skarżysko-Kamienna and Starachowice- Wierzbnik one after the other. He then moved to the Lublin district, was land commissioner in Dęblin and became as of August 7, 1941 Kreishauptmann in Janow Lubelski / Kraśnik transported. He held this post until his death in July 1944. Lenk acted brutally in the circle he administered and was involved in the mistreatment of Poles and Jews with his whip . He also had Jews and Poles deported to the Majdanek concentration camp , among others . A former subordinate of Lenk later described this as a "bad appearance", which was feared by the people in the circle he administered.

In the course of the advance of the Red Army , Lenk died trying to break away. Lenk was killed by partisans while fleeing.

literature

  • Bogdan Musial : German civil administration and persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-447-04208-7 ; 2nd edition 2004, ISBN 3-447-05063-2 .
  • Markus Roth: Gentlemen. The German District Chiefs in Occupied Poland - Career Paths, Rule Practice and Post-History. Wallstein, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0477-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ With Bogdan Musial: German civil administration and the persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement . Wiesbaden 1999, p. 389, Lenk is referred to as Kurt Lenk
  2. ↑ a b c Short biography by Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen , Göttingen 2009, p. 487.
  3. ↑ a b c d Bogdan Musial: German civil administration and the persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement . Wiesbaden 1999, p. 389.
personal data
SURNAME Lenk, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lenk, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German district chief in Poland
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuwiese
DATE OF DEATH July 1944