Stephan Gierets

Stephan Gierets (born March 9, 1895 in Eupen ; † June 25, 1941 there ) was a Belgian and German politician.

Life

After attending school, Gierets worked as a book and devotional items dealer in Eupen. He was married and had one child.

From 1922 to 1940 Gierets was a member of the city council of Eupen. In 1925 he was a co-founder of the German Party. In 1929 he worked as the union secretary of the Christian People's Party for Eupen, Malmedy and Sankt Vith . In 1936 Gierets was area manager for Ostbelgien and district manager for Eupen of the Heimattreuen Front , a political organization of the German-speaking population in Belgium, which demanded the re-connection of the Belgian eastern cantons to the German Reich . Gierets worked with the West German Research Association, an institution for research on the West . In June 1936 Gierets was stripped of his Belgian citizenship because of his collaboration with National Socialist Germany.

After the German occupation of Belgium , Gierets was installed on May 22, 1940 as district leader of the NSDAP for Eupen. He was also the party’s representative for the offices and communities in the district of Eupen . Gierets entered the National Socialist Reichstag on June 9, 1941 , in which he represented Eupen-Malmedy until his death on June 25 of the same month. His mandate was then continued by Gabriel Saal .

literature

Peter Klefisch: The district leaders of the NSDAP in the districts of Cologne-Aachen, Düsseldorf and Essen. North Rhine-Westphalian Main State Archives, Düsseldorf 2000, ISBN 3-9805419-2-4 , p. 119.

Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , p. 174 .

Individual evidence

↑ : Michael Fahlbusch : German Politics and West German Research Association. In: Burkhard Dietz (ed.): Griff nach dem Westen. The "West Research" of the ethnic-national sciences on the north-western European area (1919–1960). (Part 2) Waxmann, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8309-1144-0 , pp. 569-654, here pp. 613 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Gierets, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German and Belgian politicians (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	March 9, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH	Eupen
DATE OF DEATH	June 25, 1941
Place of death	Eupen

[1] : Michael Fahlbusch : German Politics and West German Research Association. In: Burkhard Dietz (ed.): Griff nach dem Westen. The "West Research" of the ethnic-national sciences on the north-western European area (1919–1960). (Part 2) Waxmann, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8309-1144-0 , pp. 569-654, here pp. 613 f.