Economic Council (Bavaria)
The title of Economics Council is a non-academic title . It was awarded in Bavaria until 1929 and is still awarded as an award in the former part of the state of Palatinate .
history
The title appears in Bavaria as early as the 18th and early 19th centuries, but at that time it was still broader in the sense of the entire national economy. From 1875 onwards, in the Kingdom of Bavaria only important farmers and agricultural scientists who had rendered outstanding services to the profession and the state and who enjoyed a high reputation among the population due to their outstanding social position were awarded the honorary title of Royal Bavarian Economic Council by the sovereign . Occasionally, the addition of " privy" appeared in the title , but this was only used for decoration and was derived from the old title " privy councilor" .
The Royal Bavarian Economic Councils were subsequently generally regarded as the embodiment of the good, educated and typical large farmer who was one of the local dignitaries. With this in mind, Georg Lohmeier erected a monument to him in the popular television series “ Royal Bavarian District Court ”. There one of the recurring, likeable characters was the fictional Royal Bavarian Economist Josef Fäustl, portrayed by Albert Hörrmann .
Even after the end of the monarchy, the Free State of Bavaria continued to award the title of Economic Council after a temporary interruption, despite Article 109 of the Weimar Constitution that certain “titles may only be awarded if they denote an office or a profession” . This practice was criticized by the government in Berlin . In a process before the Reichsgericht in 1929, the further award of the Bavarian honorary title of economics and commerce council was finally prevented after the Free State was unable to assert itself with its view that these titles were job-related.
That passage of the Weimar Constitution was incorporated into Article 118 of the Constitution of the Free State of Bavaria in 1946 , which is why the award of the title of Economic Council no longer takes place there today. In 1962, Hans Utz , member of the state parliament, made an unsuccessful attempt to revive this and other historic honorary titles in Bavaria.
In the now no longer Bavarian Rhine Palatinate , the legal situation is different due to its annexation to the State of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1946 . The state constitution of 1947 does not recognize such a restriction and the honorary title of economic council is awarded here by the state government to this day. The same applies to the Saarpfalz district , the former Bavarian part of today's Saarland , whose constitution also allows the honorary title of Economic Council to exist.
Bearer of the title
- Georg Bachmann (1885–1971), farmer, member of the Reichstag
- Jakob Brenneisen (1869–1947), landowner and member of the state parliament
- Franz Burger (1836–1920), farmer, member of the Reichstag
- Benno Danner (1857–1917), farmer, beer brewer, patron
- Karl Gebhart (1859–1921), landowner and member of the Reichstag
- Franz Herbert (1885–1945), farmer and member of the Reichstag
- Gustav Hess (1874–1940), farmer and politician
- Thomas Hoeger (1853–1924), Earl of Toerring's Obergutverwalter Jettenbach
- Heinrich Janson (1869–1940), landowner and member of the Reichstag
- Philipp Lichti (1881–1958), farmer and politician
- Rudolf Friedrich Ludloff (1848 – after 1910), agricultural expert in colonial affairs
- Georg May (1819–1881) Professor of Livestock and Veterinary Medicine at the Weihenstephan Agriculture Academy
- Christof Nickl (1886–1967), farmer and politician
- Ludwig Niggl (1875–1971), farmer, agricultural scientist
- Christian Rambacher (1870–1937), farmer and member of the state parliament
- Heinrich Stauffer (1863–1931), landowner and member of the Reichstag
- Karl Streit (1833–1902), farmer and historian
- Luitpold Weilnböck (1865–1944), farmer and member of the Reichstag
- August Ziegler (1885–1937), oenologist
literature
- Max Spindler : Handbook of Bavarian History , Vol. IV, 2, p. 202, CH Beck Verlag, 2017, ISBN 3406704565 ; (Digital scan)
Individual evidence
- ^ Page of the Federal Archives with criticisms from the Reich Minister of the Interior, 1925
- ^ Website on the history of the title Kommerzienrat
- ^ Article from "Zeit", 1962
- ^ Report on the award of the Rhineland-Palatinate title of Economics Council, 2016
- ↑ On the award of the title Ökonomierat im Saarland, 2017