Young German Party in Poland

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The Young German Party in Poland ( JdP ) (Polish: Partia Młodoniemiecka w Polsce ) was an association of the German minority in the Polish state founded in 1921 as the German National Socialist Association for Poles in Bielitz . On May 29, 1930 it was renamed the Young German Party.

history

Since 1932 the JdP was active in Eastern Upper Silesia , from 1934 also in Greater Poland , Pomerania and Łódź . The party was heavily influenced by Nazi influences from the German Reich and developed into an influential organization of the German minority. The leading politicians around chairman Rudolf Ernst Wiesner fought the traditional minority associations, declared pro forma their loyalty to the Polish state, but from 1938 worked de facto towards its destruction.

In the mid-1930s, the Young Germans had around 50,000 members. They found most support among the younger urban population and the farmers. Her journalistic organ was the daily newspaper Der Aufbruch , which had been published in Katowice since 1933 . Party chairmen were Robert Axmann from 1921 to 1922, Karl Hofmann from 1922 to 1923 and Rudolf Wiesner from 1923 to 1939 .

Until 1930 the party was only active in local politics. In the fourth legislative period (1935–1938) of the Senate , Rudolf Wiesner was appointed by the State President as a representative of the German State Group in the Senate. After a "solemn closing roll call" on December 9th and 10th, 1939 in Bielitz, the party was completely incorporated into the NSDAP .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bielitzer Deutschtum takes place. The Young German Party joins the NSDAP as one. a. In: Lodzer Zeitung , December 11, 1939.

literature

  • Otto Heike, The German minority in Poland until 1939: their life and work culturally, socially, politically; a historical-documentary analysis , Leverkusen 1986 (written from the perspective of a former minority activist)
  • Mads Ole Balling: From Reval to Bucharest - Statistical-Biographical Handbook of the Parliamentarians of the German Minorities in East Central and Southeastern Europe 1919-1945, Volume 1, 2nd Edition . Copenhagen 1991, ISBN 87-983829-3-4 , pp. 189-190 .