Ludwig Oldach

Ludwig Oldach

Ludwig August Karl Oldach (born September 21, 1888 in Goldberg (Mecklenburg) , † January 27, 1987 in Flensburg ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and SS standard leader .

biography

Ludwig Oldach attended elementary school in Dargun and grammar school in Neubrandenburg and entered the Mecklenburg judicial service on May 1, 1905. He later switched to the Reich Finance Administration as a civil servant , where he last worked from April 1, 1922 as chief tax inspector in Parchim . After he had already belonged to the Fusilier Regiment No. 90 in Wismar from 1910 to 1911 , Oldach took part in the First World War with the Grenadier Regiment No. 2 from 1914 . In 1915 he retired from military service due to an injury.

Oldach became a member of the NSDAP in 1925 ( membership number 3.206), in which he took over the office of district leader in Parchim from 1925 to 1933 . On November 1, 1933, he also became a member of the SS (membership number 36.205), in which he successively became Obersturmführer (June 15, 1934), Hauptsturmführer (April 20, 1935), Sturmbannführer (November 9, 1936), Obersturmbannführer (November 1, 1936) 1938) and Standartenführer (January 30, 1943) was promoted.

From 1928 to 1933 Oldach was a city councilor in Parchim and from 1932 to 1933 he sat as a member of the NSDAP in the state parliament of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin .

Schwerin Villa Weinbergstrasse 1

A few weeks after the National Socialists came to power , Oldach was appointed City Councilor of Wismar on May 15, 1933 . On November 15, 1933 he was appointed government councilor and head of the state police station in Schwerin , which he headed until the end of the war. In Schwerin he was particularly noticeable because of his police policy, which was particularly directed against the local Jews : in 1936 he expropriated the sanatorium of the Jewish doctor Erich Rosenhain at Weinbergstrasse 1, which he made the new headquarters of the Gestapo . In November 1938 Oldach made in the context of the Kristallnacht become known action against the Germany-based Jews sixteen Schwerin arrest Jews, which he dismissed only towards the commitment to their businesses to sell and leave Germany in freedom.

On July 14, 1934 Oldach was as a substitute for the in the Rohm affair shot SA - Obergruppenführer Fritz von Kraußer to members of the Nazi Reichstag appointed. He was a member of this until the end of the Nazi regime as a representative of constituency 35 (Mecklenburg).

During the Second World War , Oldach was appointed SS-Standartenführer of the Waffen-SS . In 1945, in view of the impending Soviet invasion of Mecklenburg - and after the prisoners from his service had been liquidated - Oldach moved his office by water, following the so-called Rattenlinie Nord , to Flensburg , where other Gestapo offices and the Dönitz rump government had also withdrawn. After the end of the Second World War, Oldach was picked up by the British and sent to an internment camp. In 1948 he was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, which was considered served by internment. His amnesty followed in 1954 .

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 .
• Gerhard Paul : Landunter . Schleswig-Holstein and the swastika . Westphalian steam boat, Münster 2001, ISBN 3-89691-507-X .
• Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).

Web links

• Literature about Ludwig Oldach in the state bibliography MV
• Ludwig Oldach in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

1. ^ Michael Buddrus et al .: Mecklenburg in World War II . The meetings of Gauleiter Friedrich Hildebrandt with the NS leadership bodies of Gau Mecklenburg 1939–1945 . Temmen, Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8378-4001-8 , p. 1050-1051 .
2. ↑ Kyra T. Inachin : From self-assertion to resistance. Mecklenburg and Pomerania against National Socialism 1933 to 1945 , 2004, p. 72.
3. ↑ See archived copy ( Memento of the original dated May 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
4. ↑ Stephan Link: "Rattenlinie Nord". War criminals in Flensburg and the surrounding area in May 1945. In: Gerhard Paul, Broder Schwensen (Hrsg.): Mai '45. End of the war in Flensburg. Flensburg 2015, p. 22.
5. ^ "Flensburg Comrades", in: Die Zeit No. 6/2001.