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List Of German Democratic Party Politicians
A list of notable politicians of the defunct German Democratic Party: A * Emil Abderhalden * Gustav Altenhain B * Friedrich Baltrusch * Marie Baum * Gertrud Bäumer * Adolf Bauser * Ludwig Bergsträsser * Andreas Blunck * Friedrich Burmeister C * Julius Curtius D * Thomas Dehler * Berthold Deimling * Bernhard Dernburg F * Richard Freudenberg * Ferdinand Friedensburg G * Hellmut von Gerlach * Otto Gessler * Eberhard Gothein H * Willy Hellpach * Theodor Heuss * Elly Heuss-Knapp * Karl Hoffmann * Hermann Höpker-Aschoff * Erhard Hübener * Hermann Hummel K * Harry Kessler * Wilhelm Kobelt * Waldemar Koch * Erich Koch-Weser * Wilhelm Külz L * Ludwig Landmann * Helene Lange * Theodor Liesching * Arthur Lieutenant * Marie Elisabeth Lüders * Erich Lüth M * Hermann Maas * Artur Mahraun * Reinhold Maier * Friedrich Meinecke * Friedrich Middelhauve N * Friedrich Naumann * Otto Nuschke O * Rudolf Oeser P * Rudolf Paul * Friedrich von Payer * Carl Wilhelm Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Democratic Party
The German Democratic Party (, or DDP) was a center-left liberal party in the Weimar Republic. Along with the German People's Party (, or DVP), it represented political liberalism in Germany between 1918 and 1933. It was formed in 1918 from the Progressive People's Party and the liberal wing of the National Liberal Party, both of which had been active in the German Empire. After the formation of the first German state to be constituted along pluralist-democratic lines, the DDP took part as a member of varying coalitions in almost all Weimar Republic cabinets from 1919 to 1932. Before the Reichstag elections of 1930, it united with the People’s National Reich Association (), which was part of the nationalist and anti-Semitic Young German Order (). From that point on the party called itself the German State Party (, or DStP) and retained the name even after the Reich Association left the party. Because of the connection to the Reich Association, members of the left wing of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Gessler
Otto Karl Gessler (or Geßler) (6 February 1875 – 24 March 1955) was a liberal German politician during the Weimar Republic. From 1910 until 1914, he was mayor of Regensburg and from 1913 to 1919 mayor of Nuremberg. He served in numerous Weimar cabinets, most notably as ''Reichswehrminister'' (Minister of Defence) from 1920 to 1928. Early life Otto Karl Gessler was born on 6 February 1875 in Ludwigsburg in the Kingdom of Württemberg as the son of the non-commissioned officer Otto Gessler and his wife Karoline (née Späth). He finished school in 1894 with the Abitur at the ''Humanistisches Gymnasium'' in Dillingen an der Donau. He studied law in Erlangen, Tübingen and Leipzig and received his doctorate there in 1900. Initially, he worked for the judicial service of Leipzig. He then moved to Bavaria and served in various positions in the Bavarian justiciary (1903 clerk in the Bavarian Ministry of Justice, 1904 prosecutor in Straubing, 1905 ''Gewerberichter'' in Munich) bef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Külz
Wilhelm Külz (18 February 1875 – 10 April 1948) was a German liberal politician of the National Liberal Party, the German Democratic Party (DDP) and later the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD). He held public office both in the German Empire and in the Weimar Republic. In 1926, he served as interior minister of Germany in the cabinets of chancellors Hans Luther and Wilhelm Marx. Early life Külz was born on 18 February 1875 at Borna near Leipzig in the Kingdom of Saxony. He was the son of Otto Külz (1839–1921), a Protestant priest, and his wife Anna (1849–1914, née Paschasius). He had a sister, Käthe (1878–1924) and a twin brother, Ludwig (1875–1938). From a conservative family, Wilhelm studied law at the University of Leipzig. He then served in the military (as ''Reserveleutnant''). Külz married Erna Freymond (1881–1963) in 1901. They had one son, Helmut. Also in 1901, he was awarded a doctorate at the ''Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät'' of the Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Koch-Weser
Erich Koch-Weser (26 February 1875 – 19 October 1944) was a German lawyer and liberal politician. One of the founders (1918) and later chairman (1924–1930) of the liberal German Democratic Party, he served as minister of the Interior (1919–1921), vice-chancellor of Germany (1920) and minister of Justice (1928–1929). Early life Erich Koch was born on 26 February 1875 in Bremerhaven as the son of Dr. Anton Koch (1838–76), a Protestant headmaster of a higher girls' school, and his wife Minna (1841–1930, née Lewenstein), the daughter of a Jewish merchant from Burhave. Erich Koch studied law and economics at Lausanne, Bonn, Berlin and at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich from 1893 to 1897 where he finished with a Dr.jur. Erich Koch was married twice. In 1903, he married Bertha (1880–1923, née Fortmann). In 1925, he married Irma (1897–1970, née von Blanquet). He had four sons and one daughters from his first marriage and two sons from his second marriage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waldemar Koch
Waldemar Koch (25 September 1880 – 15 May 1963) was a German liberal politician and economist. He was born in Bad Harzburg, Duchy of Brunswick. Koch studied Economics, Philosophy and History at Berlin. He received a doctorate in 1907 for a dissertation entitled "Consolidation in the German Electrical Indudstry" (''"Konzentration in der dt. Elektroindustrie"''). Between 1907 and 1910 he undertook an extensive study tour that included Russia, China and the United States. He also worked for AEG from 1905 to 1907, returning to the company to head a London-based company for them from 1910 to 1914. During World War I he served in the German army. In 1918 he joined the German Democratic Party ''(Deutsche Demokratische Partei)''. Between the wars he worked as an economist and professor on the Technical University of Berlin. After World War II he co-founded the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD) in the Soviet Occupied Zone (SBZ). In 1945 he was briefly the Chairman of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Kobelt
Wilhelm Kobelt (20 February 1840 – 26 March 1916) was a German zoologist born in Alsfeld, Grand Duchy of Hesse. He specialized in the field of malacology. Kobelt is remembered for his work as curator of the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt am Main. Several species of mollusk contain his name, including '' Fusinus kobelti'' (Kobelt's spindle), '' Cymatium kobelti'' and '' Hyalinia kobelti''. '' Kobeltia'', a subgenus of '' Arion'' slugs, is named in honor of him. Selected publications * ''Archiv für Molluskenkunde'', 1868 - Archive of malacology. * ''Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft'', 1874 - Yearbook of the German Malaco-zoology Society. * ''Illustrirtes conchylienbuch'', 1876 - Illustrated book of conchology. * ''Reiseerinnerungen aus Algerien und Tunis'', 1885 - Travel memoirs of Algeria and Tunis. * Prodromus faunae molluscorum testaceorum maria europaea inhabitantium, 1886. * ''Studien zur Zoogeographie'', 1897 - Zoogeographical studies. * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Graf Kessler
Harry Clemens Ulrich Graf von Kessler (23 May 1868 – 30 November 1937) was an Anglo-German count, diplomat, writer, and patron of modern art. English translations of his diaries "Journey to the Abyss" (2011) and "Berlin in Lights" (1971) reveal anecdotes and details of artistic, theatrical, and political life in Europe, mostly in Germany, from the late 19th century through the collapse of Germany at the end of World War I until his death in Lyon in 1937. Family Harry Kessler's parents were the Hamburg banker Adolf Wilhelm Graf von Kessler (24 November 1838 – 22 January 1895) and Alice Harriet Blosse-Lynch (born 17 July 1844 in Bombay; died 19 September 1919 in Normandy), the daughter of Anglo-Irish Henry Blosse Lynch, C.B., of Partry House, County Mayo. Kessler's parents married in Paris on 10 August 1867; Kessler was born, also in Paris, in 1868. Kessler's younger sister was born in 1877, and was named Wilhelmina after Kaiser Wilhelm I, who became the child's godfather. Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Hummel
Hermann Hummel (22 June 1876 – 13 September 1952) was a German chemist and politician in the Republic of Baden. He was a member of the DDP. Early life and career Hummel was born in Lahr in the Grand Duchy of Baden. He studied astronomy, chemistry, mathematics and philosophy at the universities of Heidelberg, Freiburg im Breisgau, and Strasbourg. He simultaneously completed a degree in engineering at the Technical University of Karlsruhe. He later became a chemistry teacher at a high school in Karlsruhe and thus began his teaching career. In 1906, Hummel moved up to teach chemistry at a secondary school in Karlsruhe. It was not long after this that he began to put his knowledge of chemistry to practical use. From 1912 to 1914, he worked in a paint factory, Electra Werke GmbH. At the outbreak of the First World War, he joined as a war volunteer in the field artillery regiment No. 27. He continued to serve as a lieutenant of the reserve from 1915 until 1917. During this time, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erhard Hübener
Dr. Erhard Hübener (4 August 1881 – 3 June 1958) was a Weimar Republic, German politician and member of the german Democratic Party, German Democratic Party (DDP) until 1933. After World War II he engaged in rebuilding structures of self-rule in the Soviet occupation zone and was co-founder and member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany, Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD). Early years Hübener was born in Tacken (now part of Groß Pankow (Prignitz)), Province of Brandenburg. His father was a Protestant pastor. After attending the school at Pforta, Hübener studied history and political science at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Christian Albert's University, Kiel and Frederick William University of Berlin, Frederick William's University, Berlin. He graduated with a doctorate. Hübener and Otti Bornemann married in 1909. He served as an officer in World War I. First term of political career After the war he joined the liberal DDP. In 1919 Otto Fisch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Höpker-Aschoff
Hermann Höpker-Aschoff (31 January 1883 – 15 January 1954) Brockhaus Geschichte Second Edition was a German politician, finance minister, a member of Parlamentarischer Rat and a jurist. He was the first President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. Höpker-Aschoff studied law and economics in Jena, Munich and Bonn. He taught Monetary economics, monetary theory and finance as professor at the University of Bonn. References External links * 1883 births 1954 deaths People from Herford People from the Province of Westphalia German Protestants German Democratic Party politicians German State Party politicians Members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic Members of the Bundestag for North Rhine-Westphalia Finance ministers of Prussia Justices of the Federal Constitutional Court University of Jena alumni Academic staff of the University of Bonn German military personnel of World War I Members of the Bundestag for the Free Democratic Party (Germany) Members of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Hoffmann (politician)
Karl Jakob Hoffmann (2 February 1820, in St. Gallen – 18 December 1895, in St. Gallen) was a Swiss politician of the Free Democratic Party and President of the Swiss Council of States (1877/1878 and 1889/1890). After studying law in Bern, Jena and Munich, Karl Hoffmann obtained a doctorate in 1839 and became a lawyer in St. Gallen (1840–1891). He was elected to the Grand Conseil of the Canton of St. Gallen between 1853 and 1870, and again between 1873 and 1895. In parallel, he was elected to the Council of States between 1873 in 1891. On 22 February 1881, he was elected to the Swiss Federal Council The Federal Council (german: Bundesrat; french: Conseil fédéral; it, Consiglio federale; rm, Cussegl federal) is the executive body of the federal government of the Swiss Confederation and serves as the collective head of state and governme ... but declined the election for family reasons. His son Arthur Hoffmann (1857–1927) was a member of the Federal Council (1911â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elly Heuss-Knapp
Elisabeth Eleonore Anna Justine Heuss-Knapp (''née'' Knapp; 25 January 1881 – 19 July 1952) was a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), social reformer, author and wife of German president Theodor Heuss. She was the founder of the ''Müttergenesungswerk'' charitable organisation officially called Elly Heuss-Knapp Foundation in her honour. Life Elly Knapp was born in Straßburg, then capital of the Imperial Territory of Alsace-Lorraine, the daughter of the renowned economist Georg Friedrich Knapp (1842–1926), founder of the chartalist school of monetary theory, who taught at the Straßburg University. Her mother Lydia v. Karganow (1849–1925), who was from Georgia, became mentally ill shortly after her birth and left the family when Knapp was three years old. Elly, a bright, inquisitive child, and her sister Marianne spent much time with their grandparents and were raised by their father alone, uncommon at the time. She studied to become a teacher, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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