Viktor Niewiesch

Viktor Niewiesch (born May 3, 1877 in Wilhelmsthal, Oppeln district ; † unknown) was chief officer of the police in the Arnsberg district government .

Life

After leaving the grammar school in Opole from Obersekunda , Viktor Niewiesch became an administrative employee at the Düren district office and was employed by the district government of Aachen on November 18, 1897 as a "surplus" civil servant candidate without income . In 1899 he moved to the local police headquarters. Before he became a police assessor here on July 22, 1919, he had found temporary employment in the Prussian Ministry of Spiritual and Educational Matters and from 1914 worked for the Imperial German Civil Administration in the province of Liège . Promoted to the Police Council in April 1920 , he was a member of the German delegation for the German-Belgian border negotiations. In 1921 he was first acting and from December 1922 definitive head of the police administration in Witten .

The occupation authorities expelled him in February 1923, whereupon he found a job with the Arnsberg district government , where he was promoted to government councilor on November 6, 1926. In the same month he became head of the Herne police station. He was a member of the NSDAP from May 1, 1933 and a councilor in Herne in 1935 and 1936 . In 1934 he was appointed to temporarily deputize for an official who had been delegated to the Prussian State Ministry, and on January 15, 1936, he joined the Arnsberg district government as deputy head of department. On December 1, 1937, he was promoted to senior government councilor, and he was appointed general department of the police and department for Reich defense matters. Before he was seconded to the Katowice Police Headquarters in February 1942 , he was the permanent representative of Government Director I from March 1940 and was responsible for police, military and Reich defense matters as well as for the defense.

As a government director he was the permanent representative of the police chief Metz in Katowice. In 1943 he returned to his old area of ​​responsibility for the Arnsberg district government. Eventually he took over the management of the general department and was promoted to senior government director. The Allied troops arrested him in April 1945. Released at the end of November of that year, the denazification process followed . Niewiesch was classified in category III (less stressful) and retired on September 1, 1947.

literature

• Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918-1945 / 46). Biographisches Handbuch, Münster, Aschendorff Verlag, 2004, p. 228, ISBN 978-3-402-06799-4 .

Web links

• Viktor Niewiesch Short biography on the Internet portal "Westphalian History"