Walter Didlaukies

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Walt (h) er Didlaukies (born April 14, 1908 in Bischofsburg / East Prussia ; † unknown) was a German lawyer and former NSDAP district administrator.

Biography and work in National Socialism

Didlaukies was the son of a Reichsbahn inspector. In 1926 he passed the Abitur at the Hindenburg secondary school in Königsberg . After studying law in Königsberg and the subsequent legal traineeship (1930) Didlaukies moved to Opole as a government assessor and later a government councilor (1938). After the annexation of Austria , the NSDAP exchanged numerous district administrators. Didlaukies used the career opportunity and became NSDAP district administrator in Bludenz and a short time later in Bregenz / Vorarlberg (1939–1945). During Didlaukie's tenure, u. a. the deportation of 592 people from the Vorarlberg state sanatorium and nursing home Valduna (1941). 263 patients were demonstrably murdered, and a further 68 died as a result of the deportation.

Work in the post-war period

After French units entered Vorarlberg at the end of April 1945, Walter Didlaukies was interned in the Lochau camp. At the beginning of 1947 Didlaukies appeared as an employee of the social welfare entrepreneur Karl Pawlowski in Bielefeld. He was entrusted with the construction of the Espelkamp refugee settlement and the management of the local facilities of the Evangelical Relief Organization in Westphalia . He appeared there with a changed professional biography as "former district administrator of Memel". He had never held this position. From 1951 Walter Didlaukies was able to return to the civil service of the young Federal Republic. He was a senior government councilor , later ministerial advisor, in Cologne and Bonn.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Didlaukies' NSDAP career is documented until November 1944 in the Bundesarchiv Berlin, holdings of the former Berlin Document Center ( NSDAP membership number 4.748.921.)
  2. ↑ Horst Schreiber : The takeover of power. The National Socialists in Tyrol 1938/39. Innsbruck Research on Contemporary History, Vol. 10, Innsbruck 1994
  3. ↑ Gernot Egger: Exclusion-Capture-Destroy, Poor and “Crazy” in Vorarlberg. Studies on the history of Vorarlberg Volume 7, Bregenz 1990, pp. 195f
  4. ↑ Gerald Schwalbach: The church widen the view. Karl Pawlowski (1898–1964) - diaconal entrepreneur on the borders of the Church and Inner Mission. Bielefeld 2012, p. 312ff
  5. ↑ Ruby Simon: History Alive 1945-1959. Espelkamp, ​​Lübbecke 1986, p. 55
personal data
SURNAME Didlaukies, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Didlaukies, Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and NSDAP district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Bischofsburg , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH after 1951