Andreas Bolek

Who was Andreas Bolek?

Andreas Bolek was an Austrian politician and a leader in the Nazi Party.

In 1914 he went as an Austrian volunteer in the First World War. In 1919 he returned to Linz, where he married and later had four daughters. In 1923 he took a job at the Linz "Electricity and Streetcar Company. In the same year he also joined the Nazi party, and as a former combat officer he could soon be promoted to a local SA leader.

After the Austrian National Socialists in 1926 mainly assumed the leadership of Adolf Hitler, Bolek was designated as the Deputy "Gauleiter" of Upper Austria. When Alfred Proksch, the Gauleiter, was appointed in 1927 as Deputy Country Director, Bolek was promoted to thr top of the regional administration. In 1932 he was Chairman of NS Group, the Council of the City of Linz, but in the following year, the Nazi party was banned by the Austrian government. Bolek set off across the German border and began working out of Munich and Passau. In the same year he was naturalized in the German Reich. In March 1936 he became a Reichstag representative for the constituency of Hessen. A year later he joined the SS and was a SS-Brigade leader.