Hans Lukaschek
Hans Lukaschek ( May 22nd 1885 in Breslau, † January 26, 1960 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German politician ( center, CDU).
Life
Education and work
After graduation in 1906 Lukaschek graduated in Law and Political Sciences and Economics in Wroclaw, which he finished in 1909 with the first and 1914 with the second legal state examination. During his first semester, he joined the fraternity Rheno - Palatia Breslau (now in Mainz ) in the CV. 1910 was his doctorate in law .. He began his career working at the Imperial Patent Office, then moved in 1914 as a scholar in the municipal service of the Municipality of Wroclaw. In 1916 he became mayor of Rybnik O / S and 1919 District Administrator of Rybnik. This office he had to give up in 1920 on the orders of the Allied Plebiscite Commission.
From 1919 to 1921 he headed the Silesian Committee, which campaigned for a stay of the entire Upper Silesia the German Reich. Approximately 60 % of the population decided in the referendum conducted in this sense. Nevertheless, there was a partial cession of territory to Poland. Lukaschek was followed from 1922 to 1927 a member of the Joint Commission for Upper Silesia in Katowice, whose task was to mitigate the inter-state issues and the protection of the respective minorities. After tensions with Poland, he was in 1927 mayor of the industrial city of Hindenburg and 1929 Upper president of Upper Silesia in the Opole and supported the Ostpolitik of Chancellor Brüning. After the seizure of power in 1933, he took the swastika from the office building. On 19 May 1933 he was released. He had not forbidden, contrary to the wooing of the then Prussian Minister President Göring, the Catholic " Upper Silesian People's Voice "
From 1933 to 1944 he worked as a lawyer in Wroclaw. After 1938 he had contacts with Helmuth James Graf von Moltke and the Kreisauer circle. Lukaschek was privy to the plans of resistance and in the shadow cabinet Beck / Goerdeler in the event of a successful coup d'etat planned as a Political Officer in the military district VIII ( Breslau). After the failed assassination attempt on Hitler's life on 20 July 1944 he was arrested immediately in Wroclaw. At the hearing on 22 April 1945, the People's Court Lukaschek recanted all previous statements, citing the torture and was acquitted. On the same day he was released from the prison of Moabit. In the evening, the first Allied troops entered Berlin.
Hans Lukaschek 1945 was co-founder of the CDU in Berlin and Thuringia. In December 1945, he was Vice- President of Thuringia and director of the Thuringian State Office for Agriculture and Forestry ( Minister of Agriculture ), removed in autumn 1946 by the Soviet Militäradiminstration the offices. From 1945 to 1946 he was back working as a lawyer and notary public, now in Berlin. From 1947 to 1948 he was district judge in Königstein im Taunus and 1948-1949 Vice- President of the High Court Bizonia in Cologne. In 1949, he headed then briefly at the main office for emergency aid in Bad Homburg.
Party
Before 1933 Lukaschek was a member of the Centre Party, the Provincial Board of Upper Silesia, he was a member. In 1945 he was one of the founders of the CDU in Berlin and Thuringia.
Public offices
From 1916 to 1919 Lukaschek mayor of Rybnik, Silesia. In 1919, he was then briefly District Administrator of Rybnik. From 1927 to 1929 he was mayor of the newly created city circle Hindenburg OS In 1929 he was appointed Supreme President of the Prussian province of Upper Silesia and President of the Government of Opole. After the seizure of power by the Nazis, he was dismissed from his offices in May 1933.
From 1945 to 1946 he was third vice-president of Thuringia, in charge of agriculture. In 1947 he left for political reasons, the Soviet Zone and went to West Germany.
After the general election in 1949 he was appointed on 20 September 1949 for the Federal Minister for Affairs of the displaced persons in the out by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer government. In his tenure, the Compensation Act and the Federal Law on Displaced Persons were adopted. Since Lukaschek had lost among the displaced of trust and Adenauer wanted the GB / BHE participating in the federal government, Lukaschek retired after the 1953 Bundestag elections on 20 October 1953 by the Federal Government.
Social offices
Lukaschek was temporarily volunteer and lecturer at the 1936 founded by Heinrich Weber and from 1936 to 1945 headed the Institute of Church Administration and Finance in Wroclaw. From 1949 until his death he was vice president of the German Caritas Association. He also served as president of the Catholic Refugee Council and as President of the Federal Assembly of the homeland of the Upper Silesians.
In 1956 he was appointed by Cardinal Grand Master Nicola Canali Knight of the Equestrian Order of the Holy grave in Jerusalem and invested by Lawrence Cardinal Jaeger, Grand Prior of the Order, on 29 April 1956.