Piékarski, Felix
Piékarski, Felix
Judicial officer, politician
Born: 10.07.1890 in Gruczno (district of Schwetz, Polish Świecie)
Died: 13.02.1965 in Wiesbaden
Piékarski joined the Prussian army in October 1907. He returned from the First World War as a lieutenant and was a member of the Lützow Free Corps from 1919-20. In 1921 he joined the judiciary and from 1924 was employed as a judicial secretary and senior judicial secretary at the Wiesbaden district and regional court.
In 1928, he joined the NSDAP and the SS and became a member of the Wiesbaden magistrate in March 1930. In July 1931, he had to resign from the - unpaid - office of city councillor, as the Prussian Minister of Justice had prohibited state civil servants from becoming members of radical parties. In March 1933, he rejoined the Wiesbaden city parliament and took over the office of NSDAP parliamentary group leader. In October 1933, he was officially inaugurated as mayor. In 1939, Piékarski was drafted into the army and served as the head of a tank destroyer company on the western border, but then took over as mayor of Wiesbaden in the same year, replacing Erich Mix, who had been seconded to the air force. In March 1945, he fled from the approaching Allied troops in the direction of Vogtland, having previously ordered the destruction of various files and also participated in their destruction himself.
After returning to Wiesbaden in June 1945, he was arrested and interned at Hohenasperg Fortress and in Darmstadt until 1949. Classified as "incriminated" in the course of the denazification process, he lived in Wiesbaden again from 1949.
In addition to his work as mayor of Wiesbaden, Piékarski held various party and state offices until 1945, including being a member of the Nassau state parliament from 1929-32, a member of the Prussian state parliament from 1932-33 and a member of the Reichstag from August 1943. From 1933-35 and again during the Second World War, he was district leader of the Wiesbaden NSDAP. As SS-Standartenführer, he was also a member of the staff of the SS-Oberabschnitt Rhein.
Literature
Lilla, Joachim (editor): Extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933-1945: A biographical handbook, Düsseldorf 2004 [p. 467 f.].
Nassau parliamentarians. A biographical handbook. Part 2: The local parliament of the Wiesbaden administrative district 1868-1933. Historical Commission for Nassau (ed.), Wiesbaden 2003 [p. 255 f.].