Werner Pollack

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Werner Pollack

Werner Pollack (born August 2, 1886 in Gumbinnen , East Prussia , † November 21, 1979 in Wiesbaden ) was a German administrative lawyer.

Life

Pollack began to study law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1905 he became active in the Corps Suevia Munich . When he was inactive , he moved to the Friedrichs University in Halle and the University of Lausanne . The Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg received his doctorate in 1913 as Dr. iur. In the field artillery regiment General-Feldzeugmeister (2nd Brandenburgisches) No. 18 he took part in the First World War, most recently as Lieutenant d. R.

Upper Silesia

After the end of the war he came to the district administration in Katowice as an unskilled worker , where he - since 1919 government councilor - often had to represent the district administrator. At the beginning of 1920 he was responsible for the large Prussian district at such a representation when Upper Silesia was occupied by the Allies to secure the referendum in Upper Silesia . After a clash with the French district controller, he was transferred to the High Presidium of the Province of Silesia . In 1922 he came to the government in Frankfurt / O. In the same year he became a member of the German People's Party .

Hessen-Nassau

On November 1, 1924, he was appointed provisional district administrator of the Untertaunus district in Bad Schwalbach. The final appointment as district administrator faced some obstacles because Pollack was in Frankfurt / O. politically exposed in a Reichstag election campaign and published several leading articles in the press as chairman of the German People's Party . Opposition and attacks by the SPD in Wiesbaden were the result. Nevertheless, he was allowed to take office in January 1925 after the Prussian government of the inter-allied Rhineland Commission had reached the agreement for him after two and a half months of negotiations. Seven years of undisturbed and fruitful work for the Untertaunuskreis followed. It came to an abrupt end with the victory of the National Socialist German Workers' Party in the Reichstag election in March 1933 :

The then NS district leader had the plan to give Adolf Hitler so many honorary citizenships in the Untertaunuskreis that the circle would be at the top in Germany. Pollack also vigorously and publicly opposed this request for political and constitutional reasons. He also refused to ban SPD election meetings in the Reichstag election campaign. On March 20, 1933, the NSDAP then organized a demonstration against Pollack. 200 to 300 foreign party members were transported by truck to Schwalbach, who marched to the district building and demanded Pollack's resignation. Pollack, however, strictly refused to declare his abdication and responded to the challenge with expressions of strong contempt, shouting, "Tell the people down there that I'm not making an explanation at all in front of lolls and rascals!" filled with about 100 wild men. Unexpected help came from an SS leader who broke into the room with 15 to 20 men and tried to protect Pollack from the threatened assault. At the instigation of the political leadership, however, Pollack was put on hold and, from May 9, 1933, transferred to the government in Hanover for employment. This huge setback was a stroke of luck; because the government in Hanover proved to be a safe refuge: "In these 12 years no one asked me anything that I could not justify in my conscience." In his house, he and his wife survived the air raids on Hanover without damage.

Lower Saxony

The day after the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht , he became district administrator in the Grafschaft Schaumburg district . In mid-February 1946 he became government vice-president in Stade. From January 19, 1948 to December 31, 1949 he was also the incumbent district president in the Stade administrative region . With his work on the necessity of a large independent central authority in the state of Lower Saxony , he aroused the displeasure of Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf , who denied him the right to take a position against proposals from the state government "according to Prussian official terms". There was a serious conflict with the Lower Saxony state government, which wanted to fill the post of regional president with an SPD party member. Pollack declined a transfer to Hildesheim. Rather, he applied for his retirement because of this injustice, despite the associated loss of high position and a third of his salary. The many written advocates did nothing to change that. Pollack also turned down other offers from the government and administration. At his own request, he was retired with effect from March 31, 1950. Nevertheless, at the urging of the CDU , he decided to take over the chairmanship of this party in Stade and to prepare for the 1953 federal election because the SPD rule in Stade had become unbearable.

He spent his retirement in Wiesbaden (Schöne Aussicht 61), where he died at the age of 93.

Honors

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 114/1265.
  2. ↑ DBE (GoogleBooks)
  3. ↑ Legal and political dissertation: The Prussian General Commissions .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Ernst Vaubel: Werner Max Pollack . Die Trausnitz, Corpszeitung der Suevia München, No. 2/1980, pp. 6-9.
  5. ↑ Untertaunuskreis (territorial.de)
  6. ↑ Information from the Federal President's Office.
personal data
SURNAME Pollack, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer; District Administrator and District President
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Gumbinnen , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1979
Place of death Wiesbaden