Hans Lukaschek

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Hans Lukaschek (born May 22, 1885 in Breslau ; † January 26, 1960 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German politician ( center , CDU ).

Life

education and profession

After graduating from high school in 1906, Lukaschek studied law, political science and economics in Wroclaw, which he completed in 1909 with the first state examination and in 1914 with the second state examination . During his first semester he joined the student association Rheno-Palatia Breslau (today in Mainz) in the CV . In 1910 he received his doctorate as Dr. jur. He began his career at the Imperial Patent Office , and in 1914 he moved to the municipal service of the Wroclaw City Council as an assessor . In 1916 he became mayor of Rybnik O / S and in 1919 district administrator of the Rybnik district . He had to give up this office in 1920 by order of the inter-allied plebiscite commission.

From 1919 to 1921 he headed the Silesian Committee , which campaigned for the entire Upper Silesia to remain with the German Reich . About 60% of the population decided in this way in the referendum . Nevertheless, a partial cession of the area to Poland took place . Lukaschek was then from 1922 to 1927 a member of the Mixed Commission for Upper Silesia in Katowice , whose task was to alleviate interstate problems and protect the respective minorities. After tensions with the Poles, he became Lord Mayor of the industrial city of Hindenburg in 1927 and Upper President of Upper Silesia in Opole in 1929, and he supported Reich Chancellor Heinrich Brüning's Ostpolitik .

After the seizure of power in 1933, he took the swastika flag from the official building. He was released on May 19, 1933. Contrary to the advertising of the then Prussian Prime Minister Hermann Göring, he had not forbidden the Catholic Upper Silesian People's Voice .

From 1933 to 1944 he worked as a lawyer in Breslau. After 1938 he had contacts with Helmuth James Graf von Moltke and the Kreisau Circle , where he also took his friend Paulus van Husen with him. Lukaschek was privy to the plans of the resistance and was included in the Beck / Goerdeler shadow cabinet as political commissioner in military district VIII (Breslau) in the event of a successful coup. After the failed assassination attempt on 20 July 1944 on Hitler , he was immediately arrested in Wroclaw. At the hearing on April 22, 1945 before the People's Court , Lukaschek revoked all previous statements, citing the fact that his confession had been forced through torture and was acquitted. He was released from Moabit prison that same day . In the evening the first Allied troops moved into Berlin.

In 1945 Hans Lukaschek co-founded the CDU in Berlin and Thuringia. In December 1945 he became Vice President of the State of Thuringia and Director of the Thuringian State Office for Agriculture and Forests (Minister of Agriculture), and in autumn 1946 he was relieved of his posts by the Soviet military administration. From 1945 to 1946 he worked again as a lawyer and notary , now in Berlin . From 1947 to 1948 he was a local court advisor in Königstein im Taunus and from 1948 to 1949 Vice President of the Higher Court of the Bizone in Cologne . In 1949 he briefly headed the main office for emergency aid in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe .

Political party

Before 1933 Lukaschek was a member of the Center Party, of which he was a member of the Upper Silesian Provincial Board. In 1945 he was one of the founders of the CDU in Berlin and Thuringia .

Public offices

From 1916 to 1919 Lukaschek was mayor of Rybnik , Upper Silesia . In 1919 he was briefly district administrator of the Rybnik district . From 1927 to 1929 he was Lord Mayor of the newly created urban district of Hindenburg OS. In 1929 he was appointed Chief President of the Prussian Province of Upper Silesia and District President of Opole . After the National Socialists came to power , he was removed from office in May 1933.

From 1945 to 1946 he was Third Vice President of the State of Thuringia , responsible for agriculture. In 1947 he left the Soviet Zone for political reasons and went to West Germany .

After the federal election in 1949 he was appointed Federal Minister for Affairs of the Expellees in the Federal Government led by Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer on September 20, 1949 . During his term of office, the Burden Equalization Act and the Federal Expellees Act were passed. Since Lukaschek had lost trust among the displaced and Adenauer wanted the GB / BHE to participate in the federal government, Lukaschek left the federal government on October 20, 1953 after the federal election in 1953 .

Social offices

Lukaschek was temporarily a volunteer and lecturer at the Institute for Church Administration and Finance in Wroclaw, which was founded by Heinrich Weber in 1936 and headed from 1936 to 1945. From 1949 until his death he was Vice President of the German Caritas Association . He also served as President of the Catholic Refugee Council and President of the Federal Assembly of the Landsmannschaft der Oberschlesier .

In 1956 he was appointed Knight of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem by Cardinal Grand Master Nicola Canali and invested on April 29, 1956 by Lorenz Cardinal Jaeger , Grand Prior of the Order.

Honors

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personal data
SURNAME Lukaschek, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1960
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau