Ludwig Eichholz

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Ludwig Eichholz

Ludwig Eichholz (born February 16, 1903 in Böhmisch-Leipa ; † May 3, 1964 in Höxter ) was a Sudeten German politician , teacher , member of the Reichstag and SA leader . During the Second World War he was President of the Main Office for Education and Science in the Generalgouvernement .

Life

Eichholz attended grammar school in Rumburg and, after graduating from high school in 1921, studied philosophy , German and Slavic studies at the University of Prague . After becoming a Dr. phil. doctorate , he worked as a lecturer in Mährisch-Neustadt and then from 1926 to 1927 in Pressburg . After completing his military service from 1927 to 1929, he worked briefly as a teacher in Schemnitz . From 1929 to 1931 he was a high school teacher in Elbogen and then in Dux until 1935 . Eichholz was a member of the DNSAP from 1921 to 1933 . He belonged to the Sudeten German Home Front from March 1933, which later operated as the Sudeten German Party (SdP). He was also local leader of this party in Dux. From 1935 he was a member of the House of Representatives of the Prague Parliament for the SdP and in October 1936 became the managing director of the party's parliamentary club. Within the SdP he was the main head of education and instruction from 1937.

After the incorporation of the Sudetenland into the German Reich as a result of the Munich Agreement , he became the general representative of the “Standstill Commissar” for popular education associations and also head of the “Education and Popular Education” subdivision at the Gauleitung in Reichenberg . He joined the NSDAP at the beginning of November 1938 ( membership number 6,600,833). From 1938 to 1945 Eichholz took over the office of educators in the so-called Sudetengau as Gauamtsleiter and was also Gauwalter of the Nazi teachers' association . After the supplementary election on December 4, 1938, Eichholz became a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for the Sudeten German areas that had been added to the German Reich by the Munich Agreement and remained so until the end of the war. From the beginning of October 1942 to mid-January 1945, Eichholz headed the main teaching office in the government of the Generalgouvernement (GG) as government director and president. Eichholz, who as a member of the SA reached in 1944 the rank of SA-Standartenfiihrer belonged from 1943 to the command staff of the SA in the GG.

After the end of the war, Eichholz was taken prisoner by the Soviets , took up residence in Höxter after his release and worked as a high school teacher from 1948 to 1959. In 1959 he was appointed senior student councilor and since then has headed the school and cultural office, the city library and adult education center in Höxter. Politically, he was involved in the displaced party GB / BHE , for which he ran unsuccessfully in the Warburg - Höxter - Büren constituency in 1953 . In 1955 he became district chairman of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft in Höxter and was also a member of the Sudeten German Council . Eichholz died in Höxter in early May 1964.

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 .
  • Joachim Lilla : The representation of the “Reichsgau Sudetenland” and the “Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia” in the Grossdeutsche Reichstag. In: Bohemia . Journal of the history and culture of the Czech lands. Volume 40, Edition 2, 1999, p. 456 f.
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Werner Präg, Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (Ed.): The service diary of the German Governor General in Poland 1939-1945. Publications of the Institute for Contemporary History , Sources and Representations on Contemporary History Volume 20, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-421-01700-X .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Joachim Lilla: The representation of the "Reichsgau Sudetenland" and the "Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia" in the Greater German Reichstag. In: Bohemia. Journal of the history and culture of the Czech lands. Volume 40, Edition 2, 1999, p. 456 f.
  2. ↑ Werner Präg, Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (ed.): The service diary of the German Governor General in Poland 1939-1945. Stuttgart 1975, p. 947.
  3. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 129.
  4. ↑ Eichholz, Ludwig, Prof. Dr. In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Ebbinghaus to Eyrich] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 255 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 201 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Eichholz, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sudeten German politician (NSDAP), MdR and SA leader
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Bohemian Leipa
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1964
Place of death Höxter