Adolf Korell

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Adolf Korell on a photograph by Jacob Hilsdorf .

Adolf Korell (born March 20, 1872 in Ober-Gleen ( Kirtorf ); † September 17, 1941 in Darmstadt ) was a Hessian pastor , politician ( DDP ), member of the Reichstag , member of the state parliament and minister for labor and economy of the people state of Hesse .

education and profession

Adolf Korell was the son of the teacher Karl Korell (1845-1902) and his wife Anna, née Ramge (1847-1926). After elementary school and middle school, Korell switched to high school in Gießen in 1885 . There he passed the Abitur in 1891 and studied theology at the University of Giessen until 1895 . During his studies in 1891 he became a member of the Germania Gießen fraternity .

He worked as a pastor in Alsfeld , Darmstadt , Königstädten and Nieder-Ingelheim . During the First World War he worked as a chaplain .

On March 3, 1923, he was expelled from occupied Rheinhessen by the French occupation authorities and became the parish administrator in Rendel . In December 1924, the occupation authorities allow the return to Rheinhessen. He lived in Wiesbaden since 1932 and in Camberg since 1937 and was called to Eschbach as pastor on July 1, 1941.

politics

From 1911 to 1918 he was a member of the second chamber of the Hessian state parliament and in the provincial parliament for Rheinhessen .

From June 6, 1920 to May 19, 1928, Adolf Korell was a DDP member of the Reichstag for constituency 22 (Hessen-Darmstadt). After the merger of the DDP with the Volksnationalen Reichsvereinigung to form the German State Party in 1930, Korell did not join the new party and supported the RDP's unsuccessful candidacy in the 1931 state elections .

From 1927 to 1931 he was a member of the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse . In the Cabinet Adelung he was on 14 February 1928 to the 13 March 1933 Minister of Labor and Economic Development.

After the National Socialists came to power , he had to retire from politics.

Honors

Korell is an honorary senator of the University of Giessen. The Korellweg in the Darmstadt district of Eberstadt has been named after him since February 1, 1978 .

Adolf Korell was buried in the old cemetery in Darmstadt (grave site: II N 55).

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume 1: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0 , pp. 149-150.
  • Konrad Fuchs:  Korell, Adolf. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 28, Bautz, Nordhausen 2007, ISBN 978-3-88309-413-7 , Sp. 935-937.
  • Ludwig Luckemeyer:  Korell, Adolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 583 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • 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 .
  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 223.
  • Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , No. 471.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. see: Werner Fritsch: Radical Democratic Party. In: Dieter Fricke (Hrsg.): Lexicon for the history of parties. The bourgeois and petty bourgeois parties and associations in Germany (1789–1945). Volume 3: General Association of German Employees' Unions - Reich and Free Conservative Party. License issue. Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1985, ISBN 3-7609-0878-0 , p. 611, and see: Burkhard Gutleben: Radical Democrats in the Hessian State Parliament. Parliamentary episode of a splinter party. In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies . Vol. 93, 1988, pp. 179-186, here p. 180.