Otto Broneske

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Otto Broneske (born November 9, 1899 in Neu-Elft near Arzys , Bessarabia , Russian Empire ; † July 28, 1989 in Stuttgart ) was a book author who had worked for the ethnic group of the Bessarabian Germans since the 1930s . From 1953 to 1976 he was federal chairman of the Bessarabian German Landsmannschaft .

Life

Otto Broneske was born as the 13th child of a Bessarabian German farming family. He lived with his parents in the village of Neu-Elft in Bessarabia , which at that time belonged to the Russian Empire. The village was founded in 1825 by German emigrants. In 1940 it had around 1,000 residents of German origin.

After elementary school in Neu-Elft, Broneske attended the boys' grammar school in Tarutino . After passing the Abitur, he studied at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . There he joined the Association of German Students Colonists. At the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg , he was 1924 Doctor of political science and economics doctorate .

Romania

Returned to Bessarabia, Broneske served in the Romanian army . Afterwards he worked as editor of the German newspaper Bessarabiens with editorials on economic issues that affected the Bessarabian German minority in Romania. At the age of 27 he became director of the German Business Association in Bessarabia. It was an umbrella organization of numerous cooperatives. Broneske married Klara Bierweg from Tarutino in Bessarabia . The couple had three daughters who were born between 1940 and 1944.

In 1936 Otto Broneske was elected chairman of the People's Council of the Bessarabian Germans . Later the facility was due to the coming of Germany National Socialism in German Gaurat for Bessarabia renamed. Broneske as chairman was Gauobmann or Gauleiter . In the renewal movement , he turned against the Romanization efforts in the school system. After the annexation of Bessarabia in 1918 Romania had nationalized the church schools established by the Bessarabian German settlers and increasingly replaced the German teachers with Romanian ones.

In his official function, Broneske went to the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia in the summer of 1940 in the county seat Akkerman to the on-coming Red Army to be welcomed.

Relocation

In the resettlement of Bessarabia-Germans into the German Reich in autumn 1940 Broneske worked in responsible positions. After that he was temporarily employed by the Deutsche Umsiedlungs-Treuhand in Berlin. In 1941 he was settled with his family in Strasbourg in West Prussia . Broneske is said to have tried to speak to Heinrich Himmler about the situation of his Bessarabian compatriots in Berlin . In the Reich, the former German foreign functionary had fallen out of favor with the National Socialists . The reason for this was probably his differing ideas about the resettlement of the Bessarabian Germans. Broneske was no longer allowed to maintain contact with his compatriots and was not involved in their settlement in occupied Poland . In the autumn of 1944 Broneske's family fled from West Prussia to the Sudetenland while he volunteered for the Wehrmacht .

West Germany

After the Second World War , Broneske initially stayed in Ahlden (Aller) . He was active as a speaker and advisor to support his Bessarabian German compatriots in the time of the new beginning. He moved to Hanover in 1951 and accepted a job with the Aid Committee of the Evangelical Lutheran Church from Bessarabia . In 1958 he went to Stuttgart to the state equalization office. There he participated in the asset valuation for displaced persons according to the Burden Equalization Act . In 1966 he retired.

In 1949 he was one of the founders of the Bessarabian German Landsmannschaft. In 1953 he was elected its federal chairman. In 1976 he left office.

His grave is in Botnang, not far from his previous residence.

Honors

Works

  • German fate abroad , 1976
  • Germany our home , Stuttgart, 1985, ed. from the Committee on Culture and Literature of the Landsmannschaft der Bessarabiendeutschen

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: The Agricultural Conditions of the German Settlements in Bessarabia .
  2. ↑ Otto Broneske: My activity in the Association of German Cooperatives in Bessarabia from 1927-1931 . Tarutino 1935.
  3. ↑ Leaders of the Bessarabia Administrative Region Source: DAI Microfilm T-81; Roll 317; Group 1035; Item VOMI 926; Frame 2447861
  4. ↑ Book offer at the Bessarabiendeutschen Verein
personal data
SURNAME Broneske, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and expellee official
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH New Eleven, Bessarabia
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1989
Place of death Stuttgart