Johannes Scholz

Johannes Scholz (born May 15, 1888 ; † 1956 ) was a German publisher and functionary of the German minority in Poland and spokesman for various associations of expellees .

Life

Johannes Scholz was born in the Prussian province of Posen . After completing his studies with a doctorate , he signed up as a volunteer , became an officer and was awarded the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class.

In the course of the incorporation of the province of Poznan into the so-called Second Polish Republic after the First World War , Scholz became involved in various organizations of the German minority in Poland . He was a board member of the United People's Councils of the Provinces of Posen and West Prussia and from 1920 to 1923 managing director of the German Association for the Protection of Minority Rights , then a leading member of the German Association in the Sejm and Senate for Posen, Netzegau and Pomeranian and from 1934 of the German Association for Pomeranian and Pomeranian . At the same time, Scholz took over the publishing management of the Posener Tageblatt in 1925 and headed the Association for Trade and Industry in Poznan from 1926 to 1939 .

After the attack on Poland he was arrested on September 1, 1939 by members of the Polish security authorities, deported to Łowicz and severely mistreated. After his release he took over the publishing management of the East German Observer from November 1939 . In addition, he headed the NS-Gauverlag und Druckerei Wartheland GmbH , to which from November 1940 the Litzmannstädter Zeitung - Druckerei und Verlagsanstalt GmbH belonged as a wholly owned subsidiary . To this end, Scholz became President of the Wartheland Chamber of Commerce in 1943 . He was also a member of the board of the Evangelical Church Province of Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia (from 1940 Evangelical Church in Wartheland ).

After the flight and expulsion of the German population from Central and Eastern Europe , Scholz was instrumental in founding the Aid Committee of the Members of the Poznan Evangelical Church based in Lübeck (since 1975 Community of Evangelischer Posener eV ) in West Germany , which he took over management . From 1946 Scholz was editor and editor of the monthly magazine Posenerimmen - Heimatbrief of the community of Protestant Posener .

In 1949 he played a key role in the founding of the country team Weichsel-Warthe (LWW) and in 1950 in the adoption of the charter of German expellees . From 1950 at the latest, Scholz had his permanent residence in Ratzeburg , where the federal office of the LWW was also located, and from 1952 in Hamburg in Harvestehuder Weg . In 1951 he was elected chairman of the federal board of the LWW. In this function, Scholz was active as a national spokesman at numerous events organized by associations of expellees until 1953 .

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Wilfried Gerke : Contributions to the history of the Germans in Poland during the Second World War 1939–1945. Martin Opitz Library Foundation, 2004, p. 66.
^ ^A ^b Landsmannschaft Weichsel-Warthe, Bundesverband eV (Hrsg.): 60 years of information sheet Weichsel-Warthe. in: Information sheet Weichsel-Warthe. Wiesbaden, 2010, p. 1.
↑ ^a ^b Litzmannstädter Zeitung of August 21, 1943, Die Führer wartheländischer Wirtschaft , p. 1. Wielkopolska Biblioteka Cyfrowa (University Library Poznan), accessed on January 29, 2020.
↑ ^a ^b Beata Dorota Lake Mountain: The German minority press in Poland 1918-1939 and its Polish and Jewish image, Peter Lang, 2010, p 339th
↑ Kurt Pfeiffer: 25 years of ethnic struggle. In: Litzmannstädter Zeitung , November 28, 1943, pp. 1–2.
^ Herder Institute (Ed.): Journal for East Central Europe Research. 1990. Volume 39. Herder Institute (Marburg), 1990, p. 62.
^ Eugen Lemberg , Friedrich Edding : The expellees in West Germany - their integration and their influence on society, economy, politics and intellectual life. Volume 1. F. Hirt, 1959, p. 548.
^ The "Poznan Voices" Community of Evangelical Poznan (Aid Committee) e. V., accessed on January 29, 2020.
^ Peter Emil Nasarski, Siegfried Weigelt: Ways to Neighbors: Germans from Poland, mediator between two peoples. Gieseking, 1974, p. 117.
^ Albert Oeckl (ed.): Pocket book of public life. Festland Verlag, 1953, p. 274.
^ Landsmannschaft Weichsel-Warthe, Bundesverband eV (Hrsg.): Chronicle of the Landsmannschaft Weichsel-Warthe - 70 years of activities for the Germans from the Posener Land, central Poland with the center Lodz, Wolhynia and Galicia as a bridge of understanding. Wiesbaden, 2019.

personal data
SURNAME	Scholz, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German publisher and functionary of the German minority in Poland and spokesman for various associations of expellees
DATE OF BIRTH	May 15, 1888
DATE OF DEATH	1956

[Gerke-1] A ^b Wilfried Gerke : Contributions to the history of the Germans in Poland during the Second World War 1939–1945. Martin Opitz Library Foundation, 2004, p. 66.

[60_Jahre-2] A ^b Landsmannschaft Weichsel-Warthe, Bundesverband eV (Hrsg.): 60 years of information sheet Weichsel-Warthe. in: Information sheet Weichsel-Warthe. Wiesbaden, 2010, p. 1.

[Litzmannstädter_Zeitung-3] Litzmannstädter Zeitung of August 21, 1943, Die Führer wartheländischer Wirtschaft , p. 1. Wielkopolska Biblioteka Cyfrowa (University Library Poznan), accessed on January 29, 2020.

[Lakeberg-4] Beata Dorota Lake Mountain: The German minority press in Poland 1918-1939 and its Polish and Jewish image, Peter Lang, 2010, p 339th

[5] Kurt Pfeiffer: 25 years of ethnic struggle. In: Litzmannstädter Zeitung , November 28, 1943, pp. 1–2.

[6] Herder Institute (Ed.): Journal for East Central Europe Research. 1990. Volume 39. Herder Institute (Marburg), 1990, p. 62.

[7] Eugen Lemberg , Friedrich Edding : The expellees in West Germany - their integration and their influence on society, economy, politics and intellectual life. Volume 1. F. Hirt, 1959, p. 548.

[8] The "Poznan Voices" Community of Evangelical Poznan (Aid Committee) e. V., accessed on January 29, 2020.

[9] Peter Emil Nasarski, Siegfried Weigelt: Ways to Neighbors: Germans from Poland, mediator between two peoples. Gieseking, 1974, p. 117.

[10] Albert Oeckl (ed.): Pocket book of public life. Festland Verlag, 1953, p. 274.

[11] Landsmannschaft Weichsel-Warthe, Bundesverband eV (Hrsg.): Chronicle of the Landsmannschaft Weichsel-Warthe - 70 years of activities for the Germans from the Posener Land, central Poland with the center Lodz, Wolhynia and Galicia as a bridge of understanding. Wiesbaden, 2019.