Karl Hepp

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Karl Hepp

Karl Hepp (born February 10, 1889 in Seelbach , † January 3, 1970 in Wiesbaden ) was a German politician ( DVP , CNBL , NSDAP , FDP , FVP , DP ).

Life

Karl Hepp, who was of Protestant faith, was born on February 10, 1889 in Seelbach, the son of the farmer, agricultural official, mayor and member of the Reichstag, Hermann Hepp . He attended grammar school in Weilburg from 1900 to 1908 and then studied agriculture and law at several German universities. He experienced the First World War as a volunteer with the field artillery on the Western Front , where he was awarded the Iron Cross and became an officer in 1915. After the war he took over his father's farm. He soon became chairman of the district farmers' association for Nassau and the Wetzlar district , from 1928 to 1933 president of the Wiesbaden Chamber of Agriculture and later co-president of the Reichslandbund.

In the Weimar Republic , Hepp was initially a member of the right-wing liberal German People's Party . At the end of 1928 he took part in the founding of the Christian National Peasant and Rural People's Party . In 1929 he was one of the members of the " Reich Committee for the German referendum against the Young Plan and the war guilt lie ". From 1920 to 1932 Hepp was a member of the Reichstag .

After the “ seizure of power ” he resigned from all public and voluntary professional positions and was taken into “ protective custody ” by the Gestapo for a few days . In 1937 he became a member of the NSDAP. In 1941 he and the Reichstag delegate Adalbert Gimbel published the party chronicle So we fought! Descriptions from the time of the NSDAP's struggle in the Hessen-Nassau district (this was placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone after the end of the Second World War ).

After 1945, Hepp took part in the development of the FDP and was a member of the federal executive committee from 1951 to 1954 . He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1953 to 1957 and was a member of the Agriculture Committee during this time. On February 23, 1956, he left the FDP and its parliamentary group with the so-called Euler Group in protest against the coalition change of the Liberals in North Rhine-Westphalia from the CDU to the SPD . Hepp then co-founded the Free People's Party (FVP), which joined the German party on March 14, 1957 . Also from 1953 to 1957 he was president of the Hessian farmers' association.

Hepp was a member of the Corps Franconia Munich student union .

Web links

Commons : Karl Hepp  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Armin Matthäus Kuhnigk: Villmar - history and shape of a large Hesse-Nassau community , Villmar 2nd edition 2000, p. 143.
  2. ↑ Markus Müller: The Christian National Peasant and Rural People's Party 1928–1933 (= contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties , Volume 129). Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, p. 314.
  3. ^ German administration for popular education in the Soviet occupation zone, list of literature to be sorted out .
personal data
SURNAME Hepp, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politicians (DVP, CNBL, NSDAP, FDP, DP), MdR, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Seelbach
DATE OF DEATH 3rd January 1970
Place of death Wiesbaden