Wilhelm Strüvy

Wilhelm Strüvy (born March 14, 1886 in Sperlings , † December 4, 1962 in Lübeck ) was a German officer , farmer and agricultural politician .

Life

As the son of the manor of the same name and head of office in Peisten, Wilhelm Strüvy was educated in the cadet corps . In 1905 he joined the Prussian Army . After he had married Gertrud Schleenstein, a daughter of the regimental commander in Allenstein , as a lieutenant in the 1st Masurian Field Artillery Regiment No. 73 on November 23, 1909 , he said goodbye and took over the goods large and small Peisten, Worlack and Powarschen in the district Prussian Eylau . When the First World War broke out , he became a soldier again and fought in the Battle of the Masurian Lakes , in the Battle of Tannenberg and in the western campaign . He was awarded both classes of the Iron Cross and the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords.

In the Weimar Republic he supported the settlement policy with his companies. Voluntarily engaged in cooperatives and chambers of agriculture , he was elected chairman of the East Prussian Agriculture and Forestry Association. The association comprised around 60% of East Prussian farmers with more than 5 hectares of land. Strüvy, politically neutral, saw them disadvantaged by the agricultural policy of the empire. In East Prussia's great agricultural crisis at the end of the 1920s, he helped his friend Paul von Hindenburg to structure aid to the East .

In 1933, Strüvy became General Landscape Councilor of the East Prussian General Landscape Directorate . In the Second World War , he moved as a battalion commander of a heavy artillery - Division and fought in the invasion of Poland and the western campaign . In the fighting in East Prussia in 1944/1945 , he came as a lieutenant colonel from the Heiligenbeil boiler to the Königsberg fortress. He refused the evacuation offered by the fortress commander Otto Lasch : "If the province falls, I can fall too". Awarded the repeat clasps for the Iron Cross, Strüvy went into Soviet captivity and was taken to monastery camp 97B in Jelabuga . His oldest son had died in East Prussia.

Released at Christmas 1949, Strüvy came to Schleswig-Holstein like many East Prussians and earned a living as an agricultural advisor in the Eckernförde area . In 1950 the East Prussian Landsmannschaft elected him to the Executive Board. For more than ten years he was her deputy spokesman alongside Alfred Gille . The Ministry of the Interior of Schleswig-Holstein and the Federal Ministry of the Interior appointed him in 1953 as head of the home information center for the Königsberg administrative region and the other ten home information centers in Lübeck . He ensured the correct implementation of the law on equalization of burdens . On his 70th birthday, Prime Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel awarded him the Great Federal Cross of Merit in the town hall in Lübeck .

In 1959 he celebrated the golden wedding in Lübeck's St. Jürgen Chapel . Strüvy was the owner of the Prussian shield .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Federal Archives
2. ^ Peisten district (territorial.de)
3. ↑ Peisten (ostpreussen.net)
4. ↑ ^{a b} The Ostpreußenblatt (1962) (PDF; 11.8 MB)
5. ↑ ^{a b c} The Ostpreußenblatt (1956) (PDF; 10.0 MB)
6. ^ Gerhard Schulz: Democracy and dictatorship - from Brüning to Hitler . Berlin 1992
7. ↑ Home information centers (documentation of the expulsion, Pomeranian Landsmannschaft)