Wilhelm Dreßler

Wilhelm Dreßler

Wilhelm Dreßler (born March 9, 1893 in Tannwald ; † unknown) was a Sudeten German politician ( NSDAP ).

Live and act

After attending elementary and community school, Dreßler completed a commercial apprenticeship in the Hermann Scholz porcelain factory in Tiefenbach an der Desse . Dreßler had been a gymnast since his school days. Later he was Oberturnwart in the gymnastics club Ober-Tannwald. In 1914 Dreßler went to the fortress artillery in Przemyśl in Galicia , with which he took part in the First World War . On March 23, 1915, when the fortress was conquered, he was taken prisoner by the Russians. He stayed in this until 1918. As a prisoner of war Dreßler worked in the Russian post office, he was also the leader of a gymnastics team and a member of the camp orchestra. In 1918 he was accepted by theCzechoslovak legions raised for guard duty. In this capacity he served for eight months until his return home.

In 1920 Dreßler returned to the Scholz company in Tiefenbach, where he was appointed authorized signatory in 1936. In addition, he took over the management of the Ober-Tannwald gymnastics club. In the following years he distinguished himself as the organizer of the great Gauturn Festival. Politically, Dreßler had been a member of the DNSAP since January 1, 1924 .

On October 4, 1933, Dreßler was entrusted by Konrad Henlein as district manager with the establishment of the Sudeten German home front and later the Sudeten German Party (SdP) in the Tannwald district. In the following years Dreßler was increasingly involved in the conflicts of the German-speaking minority with the Czechoslovak state : From Christmas 1937 to New Year 1938 he was held in custody in the Reichenberg district court . He later described himself as hostage number 1 in the Tannwald district. In 1935 he was elected to the Bohemian state parliament. As a member of the state parliament of this parliament, Dreßler stood out when he appeared as the last speaker of his party on May 19, 1938 before their members left the parliament as a speaker in its plenum.

After the annexation of the Sudeten areas by the German Reich in autumn 1938, Dreßler was sent to the National Socialist Reichstag as a member of the National Socialist Reichstag on December 4, 1938, on the occasion of the supplementary election to the Reichstag elected in April 1938 on the proposal of the Reich election Rulership in the spring of 1945.

In October 1938 he was appointed district commissioner and from the beginning of 1939 to 1945 he was district leader of the Gablonz district and the main section leader there.

literature

• Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).
• Joachim Lilla: The representation of the “Reichsgau Sudetenland” and the “Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia” in the Grossdeutsche Reichstag . In: Bohemia . Journal of History and Culture of the Bohemian Lands , Volume 40, Issue 2, 1999, p. 456.

Web links

• Wilhelm Dreßler in the database of members of the Reichstag