Wilhelm Niklas

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Wilhelm Niklas (born September 24, 1887 in Traunstein , † April 12, 1957 in Munich ) was a German politician ( CSU ).

Life and work

Wilhelm Niklas was the son of the Traunstein secondary school teacher Johannes Nepomuk Niklas (1847–1912) and the younger brother of the agricultural chemist Hans Niklas .

After graduating from high school in 1906, Niklas first studied law and political science , but then from 1907 to 1912 veterinary medicine in Munich and agriculture at the Technical University of Munich-Weihenstephan. During his studies, he joined the Arminia Munich fraternity in 1906 (today: Arminia-Rhenania Munich fraternity ). In 1910 he received his veterinary license . From 1911 to 1913 he also worked as a research assistant at the Medical Clinic and in the Animal Breeding and Obstetrics Department at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Munich. In 1912 he passed the examination for the state veterinary service in Bavaria. In 1913 he worked for six months as an assistant at the Allgäu Herd Book Society (based in Immenstadt). In the same year he did his doctorate - meanwhile with a further degree as a qualified farmer - at the Technical University of Munich under August Schnider and Leonhard Vogel as Dr.-Ing. with the work The development of the Bavarian State Cattle Insurance Institution in the first 15 years of its existence .

From 1913 to 1915 he was an animal breeding inspector in the association for pure breeding of Pinzgauer cattle in Upper Bavaria (based in Traunstein), from 1915 to 1916 as an advisor for animal breeding in the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior, from 1916 to 1918 as an advisor at the Reich War Food Office in Berlin, and in 1919 as a member of the government Reich Ministry of Economics and from 1920 as Ministerialrat in the newly founded Reich Ministry for Food and Agriculture (still in Berlin). In 1925 he moved to the Bavarian Ministry of Agriculture as a department head. In 1934, an appointment as professor for animal breeding at the veterinary faculty of the University of Munich failed. In 1935 he was put on temporary retirement because he had refused to join the NSDAP . Until the end of the war in 1945 he was a farmer in Achatswies and a consultant for several farms in other regions. In 1945 he was appointed deputy head of the Bavarian State Office for Food - most recently in the rank of Bavarian State Councilor - and in 1946 as State Secretary in the Bavarian State Ministry for Food and Agriculture. From 1947 until his retirement in 1955 he held a teaching position as full professor for animal breeding at the veterinary faculty of the University of Munich. In his absence because of political offices and other tasks, Wilhelm Zorn took his place as a university professor and institute director.

On April 12, 1957, Niklas died in the Red Cross Hospital in Munich as a result of a cervical fracture that he sustained in a car accident in Austria.

Political party

In 1945 Niklas was one of the founding members of the CSU. From 1949 to 1953 he was a member of the CSU state executive.

MP

After Niklas was re-elected for the deceased MP Martin Loibl (CSU) in the constituency of Donauwörth on May 27, 1951 , he became a member of the German Bundestag on May 30, 1951 . At the end of the legislative period he left parliament in 1953.

Public offices

From 1945 to 1947 Niklas was State Councilor (or from 1946 State Secretary ) in the Bavarian State Ministry for Food and Agriculture (from 1946: and Forests), from 1948 to 1949 Deputy Director of the Administration for Food, Agriculture and Forests of the United Economic Area.

He belonged to Konrad Adenauer's first cabinet from September 20, 1949 to October 20, 1953 as Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Forests . His son-in-law Josef Ertl held the same office during the social-liberal coalition and the first Kohl cabinet from 1969 to 1983 for the FDP .

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Passauer Neue Presse, issue No. 88 from April 15, 1957
  2. ^ Recent awards of the Professor Niklas Medal
personal data
SURNAME Niklas, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CSU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Traunstein
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1957
Place of death Munich