Ludwig Posl

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Ludwig Posl

Ludwig Pösl (born August 20, 1903 in Scheinfeld , † April 12, 1945 in Schweinfurt ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

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After attending a humanistic grammar school in Schweinfurt from 1913 to 1918, Pösl completed a three-year commercial apprenticeship. From 1921 to 1932 he worked as a commercial clerk in Schweinfurt, Leipzig and Berlin .

In 1920 he founded the local group of the German National Protection and Defense Association in Schweinfurt. In 1924 he took part in the nationalist partisan measures against the French marching into the Ruhr area at that time.

On January 1, 1929, Pösl joined the NSDAP ( membership number 110.856) and was then local group leader and from the beginning of February 1930 to the beginning of October 1931 district leader of the party in Schweinfurt. In the years 1930 to 1933 he took on these tasks as editor of the national vote in the party press. From 1931 to 1937 he also held the post of Deputy Gauleiter of the NSDAP in Mainfranken. As a city councilor in Schweinfurt from 1929 to 1933, Pösl held public office for the first time. In 1932 he was finally elected as a member of the NSDAP in the Bavarian state parliament, to which he belonged until this body was dissolved in October 1933. He was sentenced to one month's imprisonment in October 1931 for defamation against the Social Democratic Lord Mayor of Schweinfurt Benno Merkle and in May 1932 to a small fine or a substitute imprisonment for the same offense against the Bavarian politician Heinrich Leier .

A few weeks after the National Socialist seizure of power in spring 1933, Pösl was appointed Lord Mayor of the city of Schweinfurt on April 27, 1933 . He was thus the youngest Lord Mayor of the German Reich. From March 1936 until the end of the Nazi regime in spring 1945, Pösl was a member of the National Socialist Reichstag as a member of constituency 26 (Franconia). In the SA he rose to Oberführer at the end of January 1942.

When the US Army marched in on April 11, 1945, Pösl behaved differently from most Nazi functionaries in a comparable position, who either went into hiding or organized bitter resistance. Rather, he refused to involve Schweinfurt in the fighting and personally handed over the city administration to the US Army. On the same day, Pösl committed suicide by jumping out of a window at the Goethe School. The reason for this was probably the false news he had been given that his wife had killed themselves and their two children.

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 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Böhm: Schweinfurt should be kept as long as possible , publications of the Historisches Verein Schweinfurt e. V., New Series, Volume 3, Schweinfurt 1996, p. 131.
  2. ^ Wilhelm Böhm: Schweinfurt should be kept as long as possible , publications of the Historisches Verein Schweinfurt e. V., New Series, Volume 3, Schweinfurt 1996, pp. 131f.
  3. ^ Wilhelm Böhm: Schweinfurt should be kept as long as possible , publications of the Historisches Verein Schweinfurt e. V., New Series, Volume 3, Schweinfurt 1996, p. 169f.
personal data
SURNAME Pösl, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Scheinfeld
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1945
Place of death Schweinfurt