Karl Spiewok

Karl Spiewok (1936)

Memorial plaque , Hauptstrasse 8, in Berlin-Rummelsburg

Eduard Karl Spiewok (born December 13, 1892 in Metz , German Empire , † May 12, 1951 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

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After attending the secondary school in Metz, Spiewok completed a commercial apprenticeship at AEG . From 1909 to 1912 he worked in the Metz office of AEG, and then worked for them abroad until 1914. He then took part in the First World War from 1914 to 1918 , in which he was deployed as a pioneer officer on the Western Front .

From 1918 to 1933 Spiewok was again commercially active for AEG, most recently as a department head in Berlin.

In 1933 Spiewok was a member of the Prussian state parliament for a few months . From November 1933 to April 1938 he was also a member of the National Socialist Reichstag (NSDAP membership number 320.315) for constituency 3 (East Berlin). In addition, he was a member of the city council of Berlin from March 12, 1933 (from April 1, 1933 as the successor to the social democrat Johannes Hass as head of the city council) and from November 1934 to the city council of Berlin.

From October 1, 1933, Spiewok acted as Gauamtsleiter of the Office for People's Welfare in Gau Berlin and Gau commissioner for the Berlin Winter Relief . From 1934 to 1938 Spiewok was also head of the State Welfare and Youth Office of the City of Berlin. He was then transferred to the city's municipal economic office until 1945. The reason for the transfer to the City Chamber of Commerce were conflicts of interest between Spiewok's function as city councilor for welfare and his work for the NSV , which led to reservations both by the mayor and the district administration. According to the historian Frank Bajohr , Spiewok was involved in a corruption scandal involving the purchase of cars.

In addition, there was the post of Reich speaker of the NSDAP and the presidency of the Bund Deutscher Westen , which was founded on May 29, 1933 on the initiative of Robert Ernst and himself - according to § 3 of the statutes, headed by leaders "Aryan descent". In the SS he was a leader (membership number 6.128).

From 1940 he headed the City Works Office in Berlin. Since 1943 Spiewok took part in the Second World War. From 1945 to 1946 he was a French prisoner of war, after which he lived in Berlin until his death .

Fonts

The establishment of the welfare system in the National Socialist state , 1937.
From the work of the State Welfare and Youth Office in the Reich capital , 1937.

literature

Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
Erich Stockhorst : 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . 2nd Edition. Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 .
Eckhard Hansen: Spiewok, Eduard Karl , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , pp. 561f.

Web links

Commons : Karl Spiewok - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Karl Spiewok in the catalog of the German National Library
Karl Spiewok in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

↑ On the activity there cf. Wolfgang Ayaß (arrangement): "Community strangers". Sources on the persecution of "anti-social" 1933-1945 , Koblenz 1998, pp. 55-57, 75-79, 104 f., 120, 133.
↑ Wolf Gruner: Public Welfare and Persecution of Jews , 2002, p. 33.
^ Frank Bajohr : Parvenus and Profiteurs. Corruption in the Nazi era , Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-10-004812-1 , p. 56.
↑ Ernst, accountability report , p. 208
↑ Frank G. Becker: 'German the Saar, immerdar'. The Saar propaganda of the Bund der Saarvereine 1919-1935. Dissertation, Saarland University, Saarbrücken 2004. p. 587 and note 2827. The abridged version of the dissertation was published in 2007 as a book under the same title as part of the series "Publications of the Commission for Saarland State History and Folk Research", 'Vol. 40 '.

personal data
SURNAME	Spiewok, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Spiewok, Eduard Karl; Spiewok, Eduard K.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (NSDAP), MdR, MdL
DATE OF BIRTH	December 13, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	Metz
DATE OF DEATH	May 12, 1951
Place of death	Berlin

[1] On the activity there cf. Wolfgang Ayaß (arrangement): "Community strangers". Sources on the persecution of "anti-social" 1933-1945 , Koblenz 1998, pp. 55-57, 75-79, 104 f., 120, 133.

[2] Wolf Gruner: Public Welfare and Persecution of Jews , 2002, p. 33.

[3] Frank Bajohr : Parvenus and Profiteurs. Corruption in the Nazi era , Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-10-004812-1 , p. 56.

[4] Ernst, accountability report , p. 208

[5] Frank G. Becker: 'German the Saar, immerdar'. The Saar propaganda of the Bund der Saarvereine 1919-1935. Dissertation, Saarland University, Saarbrücken 2004. p. 587 and note 2827. The abridged version of the dissertation was published in 2007 as a book under the same title as part of the series "Publications of the Commission for Saarland State History and Folk Research", 'Vol. 40 '.