Otto Freiherr von Fircks

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Otto Friedrich Freiherr von Fircks (born September 14, 1912 in Pedwahlen near Sabile , Latvia ; † November 17, 1989 in Hanover ) was a German farmer , SS-Obersturmführer and politician ( CDU ).

Life and work

After graduating from the German Gymnasium in Windau , Fircks studied agriculture in Riga from 1933 to 1939 . Between 1936 and 1939 he was chairman of the German student body in Riga. In the winter of 1939 he moved to the Warthegau as an ethnic German , joined the SS (SS no. 357.261) and worked as a farmer on the SS settlement staff in Litzmannstadt . In 1940/41 he headed the SS staff in Gniezno . In this function he was involved in the "evacuation" of Polish families and in the instruction of ethnic German resettlers in their courts. In addition, Fircks excelled in the persecution of the Jews. He wrote on January 31, 1940: “The evacuation is going very well there. The expulsion of the Jews will be over by February 12th, when it will be the Poles' turn. "

From 1941 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier in the Navy , most recently as a lieutenant at sea in the reserve. At the end of the war he was captured by the British and released in 1946.

Fircks worked from 1946 to 1951 as a worker in the Wesermarsch district and in Göttingen , then worked as a manager in agriculture and finally acquired a farm that he managed in the following years. In addition, he was involved in organizations of expellees and from 1954 to 1969 was the state manager of the Federation of Expellees (BdV) in Lower Saxony . After several trials and after becoming aware of his involvement as SS-Obersturmführer in the ethnic German settlement policy, he withdrew from political life in 1976.

Party political activities

Fircks joined the CDU in 1961 after he had previously belonged to the All-German Party , for which he had run unsuccessfully on the Lower Saxony state list in the 1961 federal election . He was deputy chairman from 1964 to 1968 and chairman of the CDU district association in Burgdorf from 1969 to 1972 . Fircks was district chairman in Lüneburg and deputy state chairman of the Association of East and Central Germans in the CDU in Lower Saxony. He was also elected a board member of the working group for Eastern issues and a board member of the Evangelical working group of the CDU in Lower Saxony. Since 1961 he was a member of the Presidium of the Kuratorium Indivisible Germany . Fircks became a member of the program advisory board at Norddeutscher Rundfunk .

MP

Fircks was in the fifth electoral term from May 20, 1963 to June 5, 1967 member of the Lower Saxony state parliament . He was elected chairman of the Committee on Affairs of Displaced Persons, Refugees and War Victims from June 26, 1963 to June 5, 1967. He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1969 to 1976. He entered parliament in both electoral terms via the Lower Saxony state list.

Honors

literature

  • Barbara Simon : Member of Parliament in Lower Saxony 1946–1994. Biographical manual. Edited by the President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament. Lower Saxony State Parliament, Hanover 1996, pp. 97–98.
  • Heinrich Hannover : A CDU baron who called Poland bugs. In: Speeches in court. PapyRossa, Cologne 2010, pp. 56–66.
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 (updated 2nd edition).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Peter Klausch : On the Nazi past of Lower Saxony state parliament members in the post-war period (PDF; 1.73 MB). P. 10f.
personal data
SURNAME Fircks, Otto Freiherr von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fircks, Otto Friedrich Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German farmer, SS-Obersturmführer and politician (CDU), MdL, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Ped Wahlen at Sabile , Latvia
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1989
Place of death Hanover