Johannes Slawik

Johannes Slawik

Johannes Slawik , also Hans Slawik , from 1941 Johannes Wieck (born January 23, 1892 in Kranowitz , Ratibor district ; † December 29, 1969 ), was a German farmer and politician ( NSDAP ).

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Early years

Slawik was the son of the farmer Franz Slawik. After attending elementary school , he was trained at the Agricultural School in Opole from 1908 to 1910 . He then worked as an assistant in several large farms in Upper Silesia.

After the beginning of the First World War, Slawik registered as a volunteer: From 1914 to 1918 he belonged to the Field Artillery Regiment 42 (Schweinitz): From July 7, 1915 to June 10, 1918 he was in the 2nd battery of this regiment at the Front used. During this time he was promoted to NCO on May 7, 1917. In 1918 he was wounded in a temple shot. On December 8, 1918, Slawik applied for discharge from the army.

After the war, Slawik managed various large farms in Upper and Lower Silesia . In October 1932 he settled as an independent farmer and landowner in Blaschewitz in the Neustadt district in Upper Silesia.

On May 1, 1930 Slawik became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 239.305), in which he was assigned to the local group Twardawa in the Neustadt district in Upper Silesia. However, he had already worked for the party in 1929. From 1930 he acted as an agricultural Gaufachberater (LGF) of the party for Upper Silesia.

From 1932 to 1933 Slawik was a member of the Prussian state parliament as a member of the NSDAP .

time of the nationalsocialism

After the National Socialists came to power , Slawik was appointed State Commissioner for the Chamber of Agriculture of Upper Silesia on April 7, 1933, which he remained until July 1933. Subsequently, on July 7, 1933, he was appointed special representative of the Prussian Minister for Agriculture, Forests and Domains for Upper Silesia.

On July 4, 1933, Slawik was employed as the regional farmers 'leader of the Upper Silesian regional farmers' association in Opole . He was released from this position in March 1934, as the Upper Silesian rural peasantry was integrated into the Silesian regional peasantry at that time. Slawik was then LO of the enlarged rural peasantry Silesia.

On July 1, 1933, Slawik took over the post of deputy district administrator of the Opole district . In August of the same year he was appointed to represent the administration of the district office in Opole. In April 1934 he was finally appointed a regular district administrator, which he remained until 1937.

In the November 1933 Reichstag election, which was carried out as a sham election , Slawik received a mandate as a member of the NSDAP for constituency 9 (Opole) in the Berlin Reichstag . In the elections of March 1936 and April 1938 he ran again for this, but received neither a seat.

In mid-1937 Slawik was entrusted with the provisional administration of the position of the district administrator in Wohlau . He then officially held the post of district administrator from April 1, 1938 to 1945.

In addition, Slawik was a member of the Provincial Parliament and the Provincial Committee of the Province of Silesia and director of the Provincial Fire Society during the pre-war years. He was also a member of the Reichsbauernrat, a member of the supervisory board of the Bauerwitz sugar factory, special representative of the German sugar industry and a member of the landscape committee for the Silesian landscape since 1933.

On June 27, 1941, Slawik changed his family name to Wieck.

In the last weeks of the war Slawik belonged to the Ascheberg division of the Wehrmacht as a lieutenant in the reserve.

post war period

From May 9, 1945 to March 30, 1948 Wieck / Slawik was in Soviet captivity. On April 1, 1948, he was released from this. In the same year, the district court of Erlangen and the denazification committee of the political parties for refugees and deportees at the Bavarian State Ministry for special tasks dealt with Wieck / Slawik. It is not known which verdict the panel reached.

Wieck / Slawik was registered in Erlangen from October 1946 to July 1952, from where he moved to Altenbruch in the Landau an der Isar district . Since September 1952 he was an independent farmer.

Archival tradition

A ruling chamber file on Wieck / Slawik has been preserved in the Munich State Archives (StAM, SpkA K 1960). A file from the Supreme Party Court in Wieck / Slawik is in the holdings of the former Berlin Document Center in the Federal Archives.

Further documents about him are in the Secret State Archives (GStA OK, I. HA Rep. 77, no. 5303, Bl. 29 and 42; Ibid., No. 4533).

literature

• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , p. 622 .
• Christian Rohrer: Country Leader in National Socialist East Prussia. Studies on Erich Spickschen and Erich Spickschen and the East Prussian rural farming community, (= Landesbauernführer vol. 1), Göttingen 2017, p. 146f.

Web links

• Johannes Slawik in the database of members of the Reichstag