Paul Blunk

Paul Blunk ( Heinrich Wolff , 1932)

Paul Blunk (born February 24, 1880 in Maldeuten , † March 1947 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ) was a German artillery officer and administrative lawyer, most recently governor in East Prussia.

Life

Blunk studied law at the Albertus University in Königsberg and had been a member of the Corps Baltia since 1900 . In 1909 he was supported by the University of Rostock to Dr. iur. PhD . In 1912 he became regional councilor in the East Prussian provincial administration .

First World War

When the First World War broke out , Blunk was drafted as a first lieutenant in the reserve at the Jüterbog field artillery shooting school and assigned to the 5th Guards Field Artillery Regiment. With this regiment he made the Association of the 2nd Army to advance to the Sambre in Belgium and then in France until the end of August. Then his army corps was driven east and used in the battle of the Masurian Lakes . Blunk was with the 8th Army during the fighting near Allenburg . With the new 9th Army he moved to southern Poland ( Opatów , Nowa Alexandrija, Czenstochau ). When she had to start the strategic retreat, Blunk fell ill with gallbladder disease in December 1914. On March 1, 1915, he came to the replacement department and took a vacation in Baden-Baden . Before returning to the field, he was promoted to captain of the reserve on June 18, 1915 . His regiment then belonged to the Southern Army and was based on the Solota Lypa . Until December 15, 1915 , he was in command of the battery in the kuk Feldkanonenregiment 55 . When reinforcements were required in the Battle of the Somme , Blunk led the 9th (F) battery of his regiment there from July 1916. From May 1918 he led the I. Department in the field artillery regiment "Prince August of Prussia" (1. Litthauisches) No. 1 .

Weimar Republic and Third Reich

Discharged from the First World War as a major in the reserve, Blunk immediately resumed his service as regional councilor. When the province of East Prussia was expanded to include the Marienwerder area , he was the first regional councilor with the official seat in Königsberg from 1920. In 1928 he became governor of the province of East Prussia. He was also president of the state insurance company and the East Prussian DRK , chairman of the board of directors of the Landesbank, Ostpreußenwerke AG, the East Prussian Landgesellschaft and other bodies. In 1940 he was ousted from office by Gauleiter Erich Koch .

Orders and decorations

• Iron Cross 2nd class on October 18, 1914
• Mecklenburg Military Merit Cross 2nd Class on June 28, 1915
• Military Merit Cross (Austria) III. Class with war decorations in January 1916
• Iron Cross 1st Class on January 27, 1917
• Mecklenburg Military Merit Cross 1st Class 1918

Publications

• The half-finished Masurian Canal . State printing works, Königsberg 1929.
• Preface to trips through East and West Prussia. Travel suggestions, 2nd, probably u. verb. Edition. Ost-Europa-Verlag, Koenigsberg 1933.
• German state formation and German culture in Prussia. With illustrations on 207 plates. Koenigsberg 1931.
• East Prussia and the Corridor (Lecture on March 16, 1933). Volk und Reich Verlag, Berlin 1933.

literature

• Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon. City and surroundings. License issue. Flechsig, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 .
• Siegfried Schindelmeiser: The Albertina and its students 1544 to WS 1850/51. and The history of the Corps Baltia II zu Königsberg i. Pr. (1970-1985). For the first time complete, illustrated and commented new edition in two volumes with an appendix, two registers and a foreword by Franz-Friedrich Prinz von Preussen, edited by R. Döhler and G. v. Klitzing, Munich 2010, Volume 2, ISBN 978-3-00-028704-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Paul Blunk in the catalog of the German National Library
• Blunk and the University Association
• Blunk in the Federal Archives

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Death book of the Charlottenburg registry office in Berlin No. 1633/1947.
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 86/235
3. ↑ Dissertation: The right of the Reich civil servants to give notice in the event of transfers (Section 570 BGB) and their right to rent compensation from the tax authorities .
4. ↑ Schindelmeiser, Vol. 2
5. ↑ Klemens Klemperer: About the use of contemporary witnesses in history. in: Joachim Scholtyseck , Stephen Schröder (ed.): The survivors of the German resistance and their meaning. (= Writings of the Research Association July 20, 1944 eV 6), Münster 2005, p. 146.
6. ↑ West Prussia and the Corridor (Stanford) (PDF file; 6 kB)