Karl Kossol

Karl Kossol (born August 28, 1909 in Münster , † 1992 ) was a German politician and NSDAP district leader.

Life

After attending elementary school in Lübbecke and Münster, Karl Kossol attended grammar school in Münster and left it without qualifying as a senior prime minister. In April 1929 he became an employee of the state insurance institute in Münster and then of the agricultural trade association.

He was active in the Socialist Workers' Youth , in the Greater German Youth Association and in the Young German Order . He joined the NSDAP on February 1, 1931 at the Münster local group and was division manager there in 1944. Also in 1931 he joined the SA .

From October 1, 1932 to the end of May 1933, he was NSDAP district leader in Münster-Land and then moved to Beckum as district leader. On January 19, 1934 he went to Ahaus as a district leader and stayed there until April 1934. Then Kossol worked as a district leader in Coesfeld until June 1934, before moving to Gelsenkirchen, where he was district leader until March 15, 1938. He became a Gau speaker and head of organization and was on the "List of the Führer for the election of the Greater German Reichstag on April 10, 1938". On January 14, 1939, he and the NSDAP district leader Volkmar started a fight, which is why he was sentenced to six months in prison by the Hanover regional court. A party court denied him the qualification to hold a party office for a period of five months. He was also dismissed from the party without a salary.

Kossol was as Siegfried workers conscripted into two bridges and the war began on 1 September 1939, first at a propaganda company, then in the operations staff of the NSA in Warsaw. He moved from the Warsaw Task Force to the district administration of the Warthegau. In January 1940 he was appointed NSDAP district leader in Wollstein and was replaced after just one year. On February 6, 1942, the delegation came to the occupied eastern territories as an employee of the area commissioner in Libau . It lasted until May 18, 1943. At his own request, Kossol was released for military service and had been a soldier since June 26, 1943. He was deployed in Russia and was transferred to the Western Front as a lieutenant in the reserve from December 1, 1944.

As a company commander, he was taken prisoner on March 23, 1945, and interned in Recklinghausen from March 31, 1946 to April 12, 1948. The Recklinghausen verdict on September 9, 1948, sentenced him to one year in prison, which had been served by internment. In the denazification process , the Münster Main Committee classified him on April 5, 1949 in category III b 2 (“activist”).

Kossol worked as a construction worker at the Evangelical Relief Organization Espelkamp. Later he was operations manager (1955) and sales representative (1958) in Gelsenkirchen. After moving to Bielefeld-Sennestadt in 1959, he worked here as a commercial and district representative. Kossol was married and had two children.

literature

• Wolfgang Stelbrink: The district leaders of the NSDAP in Westphalia and Lippe (= publications of the state archives of North Rhine-Westphalia, series C: sources and research, volume 48). North Rhine-Westphalian State Archives, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-932892-14-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Institute for Urban History Gelsenkirchen: Gelsenkirchen under National Socialism (catalog for the permanent exhibition)