Leopold Michatz

Leopold Johann Michatz (born February 10, 1885 in Königshütte ; † August 3, 1958 in (West) Berlin ) was a politician of the German minority in the Second Polish Republic ( KVP / DKV ) and a former member of the Silesian Parliament .

Life

Leopold Michatz was born in 1885 as the son of the house owner Leopold Michatz and his wife Marie, b. Schaletzky was born. He attended elementary school and high school in Königshütte and then studied law and political science at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University in Breslau. In 1909 in Breslau he became a member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Salia. In December 1912 he passed the first state examination in law and after a short internship he worked in the administration. From March 1913 to May 22, 1922 he was employed by the Myslowitz magistrate in Upper Silesia . He was initially until September 15, 1915 laborer and 1915-1922 paid city council in Myslowitz. In February 1922 he was elected mayor of the city of Tarnowitz . This choice had to be confirmed by the German Interior Minister Carl Severing and the Allied Commission. The second approval took place in May and Michatz took office on May 22, 1922 (he remained mayor until May 22, 1934).

During the Polish invasion at the end of May 1922, Leopold Michatz greeted the Polish troops with Marshal Józef Piłsudski at the helm in German and Polish in front of the town hall in Tarnowitz.

In September 1922 he was elected as the top functionary of the DKV in the Silesian Sejm. As mayor of Tarnowitz, however, he had to resign in November 1922 (incompatibility law). His successor was Franz Schoppa . Instead, he was elected by the DP and DKV as the only German representative to the Silesian Voivodeship Council in 1922, where he sat until 1934.

Since it was founded, he was a member of the German People's Federation. In 1934 he became 2nd Vice President and from 1934 to 1938 district chairman in Tarnowitz. On December 16, 1934, he took part in the general assembly of the Association of German Catholics (VdK) and was elected to the VdK board.

In 1938 he moved to Berlin and became a councilor in the Mitte administrative district . He became a German citizen on September 19, 1938. From September 20, 1938 he made repeated applications for membership in the NSDAP . On the basis of the application of November 3, 1941, he became member no. 8.980.084 of the NSDAP with effect from January 1, 1942 . After the German invasion of Poland , he was sent to Koenigshütte by the head of the civil administration in September 1939 and placed under the new German mayor Schroeder. After this job he returned to Berlin, where he spent the rest of his life.

literature

• 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 2, 2nd edition . Copenhagen 1991, ISBN 87-983829-5-0 , pp. 769 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} registry office Königshütte I: birth register . No. 199/1885.