Johannes Denk

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Johannes Denk (born January 28, 1886 in Königsberg , † February 10, 1964 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer and diplomat .

Life

Denk studied law at the Albertus University in Königsberg and became a member of the CV association Tuisconia . At the University of Würzburg doctorate he became Dr. iur.

After participating in the First World War , he came to the Ministry of the Interior of the Free State of Prussia in 1921 . Later he was sent to Bavaria as the Prussian envoy and plenipotentiary minister . He was put into temporary retirement by the National Socialists . The NSDAP prevented employment in the industry . You have to know that Tuisconia , the “Catholic Corps in the CV” , had applied to the 61st Cartel Assembly in August 1932 to require every active member to give an honorary assurance that he was not a member of the NSDAP.

Arrested in 1945 as a representative of the Caritas Association while attempting to contact the Soviet headquarters, he was taken to special camp No. 7 in Sachsenhausen . In August 1947 he was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment, which he had to spend in Soviet prisons and labor camps . It was not until 1955 that he was released with Konrad Adenauer's "Homecoming of the Ten Thousand" .

His widow bequeathed her legacy to the Felix Porsch Foundation in the Cartell Association of German Catholic Student Associations . It has also been named Denk's name since 1989.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1
  2. ↑ a b c Felix-Porsch-Johannes-Denk-Stiftung ( Memento from August 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Georg Mielcarczyck: History of the KDStV (in the CV) Tuisconia in Bonn, formerly Königsberg and the East Prussian Altherrenverband des CV , o. O., 1956
  4. ↑ Rüdiger Döhler : The Königsberg corporations , in: The senior citizens' convention in Königsberg. East Prussia and its corps before the fall , Part I. Once and Now , Vol. 52 (2007), p. 167
personal data
SURNAME Think Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg i. Pr.
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1964
Place of death Berlin