Peter Engel (politician)

Peter Engel (born September 27, 1918 in Differdingen , Luxembourg ; † after 1961) was a German politician ( DPS ).

Engel grew up in Fraulautern . After attending elementary school (1924–1932) he worked as a worker. In 1937 he joined the Waffen SS and committed himself to serve twelve years. As a soldier he took part in the campaign in the west and in the war against the Soviet Union . After being wounded two times in 1941 and 1942, he was no longer fit for front use and was deployed as SS-Hauptscharführer in a sub-leader school. As a member of the SS-Totenkopfstandarte "Upper Bavaria" he belonged to the guards (external guard) of the Dachau concentration camp . In May 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets, from which he returned in 1946.

In September 1946 he settled in Ensdorf in the Saarland , but was arrested a few days later and interned politically. After his release in May 1948, he found employment in the Völklinger Hütte .

Engel joined the Democratic Party of Saar (DPS) and was elected local chairman of the Ensdorfer DPS. In 1955 he received a mandate in the Saarland state parliament , to which he belonged until 1961. There he was a member of the submissions, public works and reconstruction and social policy committees. Engel was particularly committed to the concerns of his home town of Ensdorf, including the construction of a protective dam costing 1.2 million DM to avert the risk of flooding in the Ensdorf area.

literature

• Landtag des Saarlandes (ed.): Manual. State Parliament of the Saarland. Saarbrücken 1957. p. 327.
• Hans Haller: Peter Engel 80 years old. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung. September 26, 1998

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans-Peter Klausch: Former SA and SS members in the Saarland state parliament. (PDF; 2.15 MB) In: Brown traces in the Saar state parliament. The Nazi past of representatives from Saarland. The left. Parliamentary group in the Saarland State Parliament, Saarbrücken 2013, p. 7 , accessed on March 31, 2017 .