Georg Eisenberger

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Georg Eisenberger, 1930

Georg Eisenberger , called the Hutzenauer (born March 28, 1863 in Hutzenau , † May 1, 1945 in Ruhpolding ) was a German politician of the Bavarian Farmers' Union .

Life and work

Eisenberger, who was a Roman Catholic , attended elementary school until 1876 and then went to the public school in Ruhpolding for three years . At the end of the 1870s he was already working on his seriously ill father's mountain farm. In addition, he worked as a woodworker in the state forest from 1885 to 1892 . In 1892 he finally took over his father's farm with eleven hectares of meadows and three hectares of forest.

Eisenberger was married to von Grabenhäusl's daughter, Maria Dagn, and had four children.

Political activity

In May 1893, Eisenberger participated in the establishment of the Oberland Forest Farmers Association to protect the rights of the interests of agriculture in their relationship with forestry and hunting . In December 1893 this joined the newly founded Upper Bavarian Farmers' Union , in which Eisenberger was elected deputy federal master. In 1897 the farmers 'unions from Lower and Upper Bavaria merged to form the Bavarian farmers' union . Eisenberger was a member of its board from the beginning and was the first chairman of the BBB from 1901 to 1930.

Eisenberger was elected as the youngest member of the local council of Ruhpolding in 1893 and served as mayor of the community from 1905 to 1919.

From 1905 to 1920, Eisenberger represented the Lower Bavarian constituency of Griesbach as a member of the Bavarian state parliament . There he was particularly committed to improving alpine farming . Eisenberger was a member of the Weimar National Assembly in 1919/20 , where he rejected the constitution because it seemed too centralistic to the BBB . He was then a member of the Reichstag until July 1932 . Only the second Reichstag after the Reichstag election on May 4, 1924 , he was not a member. In the third Reichstag election on December 7, 1924 , however , he succeeded in re-entering the Reichstag.

In 1931 a ruptured gastric ulcer almost cost him his life, for health reasons he no longer ran for the Reichstag in 1932, but continued to support his party as much as he could. Eisenberger, who was a staunch opponent of the National Socialists , could not stop the rise of the NSDAP in the Traunstein district office either (Reichstag election in 1930: farmers 'union 29.1%, NSDAP 7.4%; 1933: farmers' union 13.5%, NSDAP 35%).

Years of Nazi rule

After Hitler came to power , Eisenberger withdrew from politics. The farmers' union had dissolved itself in April 1933 and recommended that its members join the NSDAP . He spent the years of Nazi rule in seclusion on his farm and put his memoirs, Mein Leben für die Bauern, on paper, which were only published in 2011 (see section “Literature”). It also contains anti-Semitic formulations (as early as 1895, Eisenberger had called for artisans and Christian businesses to be supported and not “big business, which is mostly Jewish”). However, half a year before the coup in 1923 , he had already warned the Reichstag against the "Hitler boys", whose "movement has unfortunately been underestimated in its importance by our government" and which "wanted to solve the economic and food problem in such a way that one hangs all Jews ”. A few weeks before his death he had a stroke; he died shortly before the end of the war on May 1, 1945.

Honors

Eisenberger was made an honorary citizen of Ruhpolding in 1919.

Eisenberger was u. a. Well-known because he did not appear at the sessions of the Landtag or the Reichstag in tails, but in his native mountain costume. It is unclear whether Ludwig Thoma was inspired by him for his figure Josef Filser , because Filser is a member of the state parliament for the German Center Party , a political opponent of the farmers' union. In his novel Andreas Vöst, however, Thoma mentions the Hutzenauer peasant leader ; the (fictional) figure of the Ruhpolding farmer's leader of the Vachenauer , who speaks strongly for the concerns of the farmers' union in the novel, is modeled on Eisenberger.

literature

  • Georg Eisenberger: My life for the farmers. Memories of a farmer's guide (edited by Johann Kirchinger). Munich 2011.
  • Fritz Meingast: The tribune with the Gamsbart. Thoughts and memories of Georg Eisenberger, member of the Land and Reichstag, farmer in Hutzenau, Post Ruhpolding . Munich 1983, ISBN 3-431-02543-9
  • Fritz Meingast: The real Josef Filser. The curious stories of the MP Georg Eisenberger . Rosenheim 2001, ISBN 3-475-53200-X
  • Johannes Fischart: Georg Eisenberger . In: Die Weltbühne 1925, pages 12-14

Web links

Commons : Georg Eisenberger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rainer Schmid in Unser Bayern (supplement to the Bayerische Staatszeitung ), No. 12/2013, page 10
personal data
SURNAME Eisenberger, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hutzenauer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bavarian Farmers' Union), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Hutzenau
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1945
Place of death Ruhpolding