Kurt Graebe

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Kurt Richard Graebe (born February 9, 1874 in Karniszewo near Gnesen ; † August 8, 1952 in Munich ) was a German politician and, as a German minority politician, was a member of the Polish Sejm during the interwar period .

Life

He attended high school in Gniezno and then a war school . Graebe took part in the First World War and was adopted as a lieutenant colonel in 1920 . As a member of the Deutschtumsbund for the protection of minority rights , a party of the German minority in the Second Polish Republic , he was elected in the 1922 elections to the Sejm .

From 1919 to 1934 Graebe was politically active as the chief executive of the Deutschtumsbund for the protection of minority rights in Bromberg . He later became a delegate of the European Nationalities Congress and temporarily from 1934 to 1935 Chairman (President) of the Association of German Ethnic Groups in Europe , in 1930 the Polish authorities arrested him and Graebe was sentenced to six months in prison for anti-Polish activity. Graebe was reactivated for the Wehrmacht during the Second World War .

After the war he was a founding member and state chairman of the Weichsel-Warthe Landsmannschaft in Bavaria.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albert Stefan Kotowski : Poland's policy towards its German minority 1919–1939 , p. 63.
  2. ↑ Sabine Bamberger-Stemmann: The European Nationalities Congress 1925 to 1938. Herder Institute, 2000, p. 266.
personal data
SURNAME Graebe, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Graebe, Kurt Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, member of the Sejm and officer
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Karniszewo near Gniezno
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1952
Place of death Munich