Helmut Wolff (politician)

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Helmut Wolff (born August 14, 1897 in Schäßburg, Romanian Sighișoara , Kingdom of Hungary ; † April 12, 1971 ) was a Romanian-German dentist and politician. He was the President of the German-Saxon People's Council and a member of the “ leadership of the ethnic groups in Romania ”.

Life

Helmut Wolff was the son of the pastor and senator Johann Wolff. He took a reserve officer with the Tyrolean Imperial hunters at the First World War in part, after which he studied dentistry in Cluj ( German  Cluj ), Berlin , Kiel and Graz and graduated as Dr. med. dent. from. From 1923/24 to 1935 he practiced in Bistrița (German Bistriz ), and from 1935 in Hermannstadt (Romanian Sibiu ).

Wolff publicly supported National Socialism and the Führer principle . At first he belonged to the so-called "Klingsorkreis" around Heinrich Zillich . In 1933 he joined the "renewal movement" under Fritz Fabritius .

On March 5, 1935, he was elected chairman of the “German-Saxon Nösner district committee” in Bistritz, against the resistance of the conservatives. On June 7, 1935 he was elected as the “German-Saxon People's Council President” (also “Gauobmann”, based in Sibiu) and as deputy regional church curator of the Evangelical Church AB in Romania . In 1939 he had to resign as President of the People's Council. After 1940 he took over the “Church and School” department within the “leadership of the ethnic groups”. He played a pivotal role in the removal of Bishop Viktor Glondys .

Publications

  • One year of the national community of Germans in Romania under Fritz Fabritius , Krafft & Dritkeff, 1936, 68S.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Agnieszka Barszczewska: Integrating minorities: traditional communities and modernization , Editura ISPMN, 2011, 388S., P.105, in English
  2. ↑ Mads Ole Balling: From Reval to Bucharest: Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Slovakia, Carpathian Ukraine, Croatia, Memelland Landtag, Silesian Landtag, comparative analysis, sources and literature, register , statistical-biographical manual of the parliamentarians of the German minorities in East Central and Eastern Central Europe Southeast Europe, 1919–1945, non-profit Hermann-Niermann-Stiftung (Düsseldorf), ISBN 8-79838-291-8 , Documentation Verlag, 1991, 987S.
  3. ↑ Cornelia Schlarb: Tradition in Transition: the Evangelical Lutheran Congregations in Bessarabia 1814-1940 , Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar, 2007, ISBN 3-41218-206-0 , 669S., P. 297.
  4. ^ Johann Böhm : The Germans in Romania and the Third Reich: 1933-1940 , Peter Lang Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-63134-371-X , 411 pp.
  5. ↑ Half-yearly publication for Southeast European history, literature and politics , Johann Böhm : Foreword to Viktor Glondys' diary. Records from 1933 to 1949 , AGK-Verlag, Dinklage, 1997
personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian German dentist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Sighișoara , Kingdom of Hungary
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1971