Paul Hensel (politician)

Paul Hensel ( born October 3, 1867 in Gehsen, circuit Johannesburg, East Prussia, † January 8, 1944 in Kolberg, Pommern ) was a German priest. He has been a champion of Mazury and member of the Reichstag.

Life

Hensel attended the Royal. High School Elk. After high school he began to study Protestant theology in the summer semester 1886 at the Albertus University of Königsberg. How many graduates of his school, he joined the Corps Masovia. After completing his studies in Berlin, he was a pastor in the Masurian communities Friedrichshof and Gehsen. For half a year he oversaw the Protestant community in Sanremo. In his native Johannesburg he became superintendent. Since 1891 he was involved in the cooperative movement. From 1920 to 1924 he was a director of the Agricultural Central Darlehnskasse in Berlin.

Member of Parliament

For the Conservative Party ( Prussia) from 1913 to 1918 he sat in the Prussian House of Representatives. Proposed by the DNVP for the constituency Olsztyn 3 ( Oletzko - Elk Johannesburg ), he sat from March 1921 to May 1928 in the Reichstag ( Weimar Republic). He worked on the committees of education, law and official matters.

Masure

Hensel was the first that began after the First World War for the whereabouts of Masuria with the German Reich. As Johannisburger Superintendent, he traveled in March 1919 with 144 447 signatures to the Allied Council in Paris to protest against any form of assignment of Mazury. On March 22, 1919 Hensel called for the establishment of the Federal Masur. Three days later, the Working Committee was founded in Olsztyn Poland against the danger in Olsztyn. From two associations of Masuria and Ermländerbund was taken on July 14, 1919 under the direction of Max Worgitzki. At the same time, the East German home service was founded with four largely independent offices in Konigsberg, Tilsit, Olsztyn and Marie Werder. Except Max Worgitzki and Paul Hensel, it was mainly Dr. Paul Marks and Kurt Thiel in Olsztyn and Richard Goetz in Marienburg, who prepared the vote. When the Mazury and West Prussia in 1920 should vote on whether they wanted to belong to Poland or East Prussia, Hensel headed the Committee of the Protestant churches in Masuria, and sat down against a connection to Poland.

The 100th Founder's his corps he wrote the song " Consecrate in joyful celebrations cheers / new Masovia Your Song ," which was sung to the tune of the song Germany.

Honors

Incomplete list

• Honor Token for church services (1930 )

Writings

• The Protestant Mazury in their ecclesiastical and national character. A church historical contribution to the question of Catholic- Polish propaganda in Mazury. Königsberg 1908 ( writings of the Synodical for Eastern European church history, Volume 4).
• The Poles danger to the Masurian population. Berlin 1911.