Lucian Wysocki

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Lucian Wysocki

Lucian Damianus Wysocki (born January 18, 1899 in Gentomie, Preußisch Stargard district ; † December 13, 1964 in Rheinhausen ) was a German politician of the NSDAP , police president and SA and SS leader, most recently with the rank of SS brigade leader and major general of the Police.

Life

Wysocki's father Petrus Damianus was a teacher, his mother Therese Apollonie, née von Paszki, daughter of a landowner. From 1905 to 1917 Wysocki attended elementary school and preparatory institute in Marienwerder . He then volunteered at the beginning of 1917, came to the Eastern Front and then in March 1918 on the Western Front in the Somme area and in the Priesterwald . Most recently he served as a non-commissioned officer in the 10th Company of the Reserve Infantry Regiment 257. On April 28, he received the Iron Cross, 2nd class. In September 1918 he was taken prisoner by the Americans , from which he returned in August 1919. He then served from October 1 to December 31, 1919 with the 9th Company in Infantry Regiment 3 of the Reichswehr . From February 1920 Wysocki worked in the mining industry in Baesweiler as a rock cutter.

Time after the First World War

Wysocki became a member of the NSDAP on May 1, 1929 ( membership number 132,988). He joined the SA on February 1 of the same year . From 1930 to 1931 he served as political director in Essen. In September of the same year he was promoted from SA-Scharführer to SA-Truppführer and in January 1932 to SA-Sturmführer. In July 1932 he was elected to the Reichstag for the NSDAP (constituency 20 Cologne-Aachen), to which he belonged with a brief interruption until the end of the war. He was also sentenced to one year in prison for political offenses in July 1932. In August 1933 he became SA-Obersturmführer and in November SA-Standartenführer . In May 1937 he became SA Oberführer and finally in January 1939 SA Brigade Leader . He carried SA standards first in Duisburg and then in Wuppertal .

Wysocki left the SA on May 7, 1940 and joined the SS on June 21 of the same year (membership number 365.199). On the same day he was promoted to SS Brigadefuhrer in the SS Upper Section "West". In a letter dated May 23, 1940, SS-Obergruppenführer Fritz Weitzel asked SS- Gruppenführer Walter Schmitt in the personnel office of the SS main office to take over Wysocki in the SS, since he has been walking around as a civilian since he left the SA and "because of that in a very embarrassing position ”.

In 1937 he was first police chief in Oberhausen and Mülheim an der Ruhr , in 1939 police chief in Duisburg .

After the start of the Russian campaign

After the beginning of the war against the Soviet Union , Wysocki was appointed SS and Police Leader (location leader) in Wilna by Heinrich Himmler in July 1941 . On August 11 of the same year, he was appointed SS and Police Site Leader for the General District of Lithuania in the Reichskommissariat Ostland , based in Kovno . On September 27th of the same year he was appointed major general of the police by Adolf Hitler .

On July 2, 1943, Wysocki was removed from his position as SS and police leader by Himmler and transferred to the staff of SS brigade leader Curt von Gottberg in Minsk , where he was instructed in " fighting gangs ". In September of the same year, Wysocki asked Himmler to be used again as a police officer in the German Reich after a cure in the SS military hospital in Baden because of "severe liver and gall bladder attacks" .

From March 19, 1944 until the end of the war, Wysocki was then police chief in Kassel . At the end of 1944, investigative proceedings for embezzlement were initiated before the Supreme SS and Police Court, but these were discontinued that same year.

After 1945 Wysocki worked temporarily as an employee at the Horten department store in Duisburg.

Wysocki was married several times. He divorced his first wife in 1930. His second wife died on February 16, 1940. His third wife was Gerda, b. Dietz (born June 15, 1908) on 23 October 1941 war married . Wysocki had a total of 5 children (* 1923, '28, '37, '38, '39).

literature

  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
  • Karl Heinz Gräfe: From the thunder cross to the swastika. The Baltic States between dictatorship and occupation . Edition Organon, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-931034-11-5 , short biography p. 443

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://motlc.specialcol.wiesenthal.com/instdoc/d09c17/ost104z3.html (link no longer available, September 24, 2012).
personal data
SURNAME Wysocki, Lucian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wysocki, Lucian Damianus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR, SS and police leader
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Gentomy, Prussian Stargard district
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1964
Place of death Rheinhausen