Georg Gothein

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Georg Gothein

Georg Gothein (born August 15, 1857 in Neumarkt in Silesia , † March 22, 1940 in Berlin ) was a German politician ( FrVg , FVP , DDP ).

Life

Georg Gothein, who was of Jewish origin and Protestant faith, attended the Realgymnasium am Zwinger in Breslau . From 1877 to 1884 he studied history at the University of Breslau and metallurgy at the Bergakademie Berlin . After working as a mountain consultant and mountain assessor, he was secretary general of the Upper Silesian Mining and Metallurgy Association from 1885 to 1887 . In 1888 he became a Dr.-Ing. PhD. Then he was head of the mountain district Waldenburg and Tarnowitz until 1892 , where he was promoted to the royal mountain ridge in 1891. From 1893 to 1901 he was the first syndic of the Wroclaw Chamber of Commerce and chairman of the Silesian Provincial Association for Inland Shipping . After the First World War , Gothein worked as an author for the Berliner Tageblatt and the Neue Freie Presse . In 1921 he became chairman of the Association for Defense against Anti-Semitism . In the mid-1920s he was President of the German Group at the Central European Business Conference . When Tilo von Wilmowsky was supposed to transfer the association to the Central European Business Day in 1928 , he renounced the honorary presidency because he did not want to belong to an association that had been handed over to the Nazis.

Gothein had been married since 1886 and had three daughters. His brother Eberhard Gothein, who was four years his senior, was a historian and economist; from 1919 to 1921 he was a DDP member in the state parliament of the Republic of Baden .

Georg Gothein's grave is located in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

Political party

Gothein initially belonged to the Liberal Association , which in 1910 merged with other left-liberal groups to form the Progressive People's Party . In 1918 he was one of the founders of the DDP .

Gothein represented a consistently liberal democratic policy and took a committed stand against militarism and anti-Semitism.

MP

First cabinet meeting of the Scheidemann cabinet on February 13, 1919 in Weimar. From left: Ulrich Rauscher , Head of Press of the Reich Government, Robert Schmidt , Nutrition, Eugen Schiffer , Finance, Philipp Scheidemann , Reich Chancellor, Otto Landsberg , Justice, Rudolf Wissell , Economy, Gustav Bauer , Labor, Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau , Foreign Affairs, Eduard David without Portfolio, Hugo Preuss , Interior, Johannes Giesberts , Post, Johannes Bell , Colonies, Georg Gothein , Schatz, Gustav Noske , Reichswehr

From 1889 to 1892 he was a member of the city ​​council in Waldenburg . After moving to Breslau , he was elected to the city council in 1894 (until 1902).

From 1893 to 1903 he was a member of the state parliament in Prussia . He was a member of the Provincial Parliament of Upper Silesia from 1902 to 1909. In a by-election in 1901 he was elected to the Reichstag of the Empire for the constituency of Greifswald . He was able to win this mandate again and again until 1918. In the Reichstag he fought against the emperor's naval policy , which he considered endangering peace. In 1919/20 he was a member of the Weimar National Assembly . Then he was again a member of the Reichstag until 1924 .

Public offices

From February 13 to June 20, 1919 Gothein Reich Minister of the Treasury in the Scheidemann cabinet .

Publications

  • The Upper Silesian coal and steel industry. Self-published, Waldenburg 1887.
  • The Effect of Commercial Contracts. Simion, Berlin 1895.
  • German foreign trade. Materials and considerations. Siemenroth, Berlin 1901.
  • The effects of the protective tariff system in Germany. Simion, Berlin 1909. (Digitized edition at: urn : nbn: de: s2w-11553 )
  • Agricultural Policy Manual. Liebheit & Thiesen, Berlin 1910.
  • The economic prospects after the war. Liebheit & Thiesen, Berlin 1915.
  • The burdens of war and their cover. Liebheit & Thiesen, Berlin 1916. (Digitized edition under: urn : nbn: de: s2w-11546 )
  • Independent Poland as a nation state. German publishing company, Stuttgart 1917.
  • Why did we lose the war? German publishing company, Stuttgart 1919.
  • The great error of German wage policy. Elsner, Berlin 1929. (Digitized edition at: urn : nbn: de: s2w-11693 )
  • The gaping price gap as the cause of the global economic crisis. Rothschild, Berlin 1930.
  • Japan's urge to expand. The economic, social and political world threat. Rascher, Zurich 1936.

literature

  • Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .
  • Andrea Kramp: Georg Gothein (1857-1940). The rise and fall of left-wing liberalism (= writings of the Federal Archives. 77). Droste, Düsseldorf 2018, ISBN 3-7700-1635-1 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tilo Frhr. von Wilmowsky: In retrospect, I would like to say ... On the threshold of the 150th anniversary of Krupp. Stalling, Oldenburg 1961, p. 190.
personal data
SURNAME Gothein, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Liberal Association, DDP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Neumarkt in Silesia
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1940
Place of death Berlin