Richard Frank

Richard Frank (born March 27, 1894 in Leimerwitz ; † August 22, 1980 in Berlin ) was a politician of the German minority in the Second Polish Republic ( KVP ) and a former member of the Silesian Parliament .

Richard Frank attended elementary school in Leirnerwitz and Beuthen from 1900 to 1908. From 1908 to 1914 he worked in the sheet metal rolling mills in Friedenshütte and in the German Emperors' union in Hamborn. During the First World War , he did military service in France from 1915 to the end of 1916. In the years 1917–1921 he was a waltz in the Friedenshütte and from February 1, 1921 full-time trade union secretary of the Christian Metalworkers' Association of Germany . From 1922 to 1935 he was secretary of the Christian trade unions in Poland-Upper Silesia.

From 1919 to 1922 he was a member and functionary of the Center Party and from 1922 to 1936 of the KVP / DKV. In May 1930 he was elected to the Silesian Sejm for his party. He was re-elected in the November 1930 elections. In the Silesian Parliament he was secretary and member of the Presidium of the Second Silesian Sejm.

After the German trade unions were merged as the Union of German Workers in Poland (GDA) on March 24, 1935 , Richard Frank became a member of the board. In 1939 Richard Frank moved to Berlin-Wilmersdorf, where he lived until his death. According to the application for membership of January 16, 1941, he had been a member of the NSDAP since April 1, 1941. Professionally, he worked as a clerk at the Reichsknappschaft Berlin-Wilmersdorf.

literature

• Mads Ole Balling: From Reval to Bucharest - Statistical-Biographical Manual of the Parliamentarians of the German Minorities in East Central and Southeastern Europe 1919-1945, Volume 2, 2nd Edition . Copenhagen 1991, ISBN 87-983829-5-0 , pp. 748 .