Hans Tiessler

Hans Fritz Karl Tiessler (born May 24, 1905 in Lauchhammer ; † December 12, 1951 in Hanover ; also Hans Fritz Karl Tießler ) was a German lawyer and Lord Mayor of Katowice .

Life

As the son of a senior inspector, he attended grammar schools in Greiz and Graudenz . After the family moved to Halle (Saale) in 1919 , he continued his school attendance there. Early on he turned to the national organizations and joined the German National Guard and Defense Association (DSTB) and the military organization of the Bismarck Youth in Halle , where he led the 1st company in 1923.

As early as 1922 to 1923 he belonged to the "Notbund" as a substitute organization of the NSDAP , because this party had not been allowed in Prussia until then. Nevertheless he looked for an organizational connection to the NSDAP and joined a local branch of the NSDAP in Munich in May 1923 ( membership number 36.218). When the party was approved in Halle in 1925, he joined the local group there (membership number 19.613).

At the University of Halle , he began studying law in 1924, which he expanded to include economics . During his studies he became a member of the Germania Halle fraternity in 1924 . He completed his studies in 1928 in order to immediately found a local branch of the National Socialist German Student Union (NSDStB). In September 1928 he took on legal duties at the Gau leadership level.

In October 1928, after passing the first state examination in law, he was appointed trainee lawyer . He then went through the usual stations in Halle at the district court , regional court and public prosecutor's office , which led him to the Naumburg Higher Regional Court until 1932 . In 1930 he received his doctorate on the subject of the fundamental right to freedom of association and assembly and the police .

In the Gau, too, he continued his organizational activities to build up National Socialist structures by founding a group of the National Socialist German Jurists (BNSDJ) in 1931 and becoming Gau leader of the National Socialist Lawyers' Association (NSRB).

In 1932 he decided to fully serve the NSDAP and to take leave of absence from civil service. He worked for the NSDAP until the end of 1932, and then in 1933, after passing the 2nd state examination at the provincial administration in Merseburg, he implemented the provisions of the law on the restoration of the professional civil service . From April to July 10, 1933 he was a deputy member of the Prussian State Council .

After his appointment to the First Regional Council and his confirmation in 1934, the NSDAP recognized him by awarding him the gold medal of honor of the NSDAP and the Hitler Youth . After he joined the Nazi student combat aid in 1936 , he was accepted as a member of the Academy for German Law in 1939 .

In 1940 he served in the Wehrmacht for only three months, and then in the same year until 1945 he was appointed Lord Mayor of Katowice . Furthermore, he led the administration of the Gau Oberschlesien . This was followed by promotion to SA Oberführer. When the Russian troops approached, he fled to Merseburg and ran the business of the mayor there.

This was followed by a tenure as district administrator in Herzberg (Elster) in the Schweinitz district , which was ended by an arrest by US troops. In February 1948 he started working for a law firm in Bielefeld . He moved to Hanover in 1950 to work as a consultant for the “Economic and Social Policy Association” based in Bonn .

Then he took over the post of deputy chairman of the "Society for the Promotion of the Lower Saxony Economy". Politically, he found a new home with the FDP . There he was elected to the state executive committee. When he died in 1951, the party assured him that he had worked “selflessly and self-sacrificingly” for the German fatherland. His death was "an obligation and a warning" for the party.

Fonts

• The fundamental right of freedom of association and assembly and the police , Halle (Saale) 1930

literature

• M. Jakowski, 100 years of the city of Katowice , 1965
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 39-40.
• 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. 164.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Tiessler in the catalog of the German National Library