Hans Lukaschek (22 May 1885 – 26 January 1960) was a German lawyer and politician. Lukaschek, born 1885 in Breslau (now known to English speakers by its Polish name, Wrocław), had started his political career in the Catholic Center Party as a mayor and in Upper Silesian Rybnik and Hindenburg (Zabrze). After the First World War served as German propaganda chief throughout the Upper Silesia plebiscite. Lukaschek headed a committee that investigated all possibilities to engage in plebiscite propaganda. The Silesian Committee was to create common propaganda themes to which all factions could subscribe, and was helped in its task by money from German government. Lukaschek propaganda actions were also sponsored by state finances. He remained in Polish Silesia till 1927, officially as a member o