Albert Zapf

Albert Zapf (born January 17, 1870 in Waldfischbach , Palatinate, † September 4, 1940 in Munich ) was a German lawyer , politician (DVP) and industrialist .

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Zapf attended high school. He then studied law in Munich , Berlin and Erlangen . In Munich he became a member of the Corps Franconia in 1889 . He received his doctorate in 1893 at the University of Erlangen with a thesis on The Redemptorists for Dr. jur . After completing his studies, he worked in the Bavarian judicial service from 1895. In 1898 he became a government assessor in the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior, in 1899 he became a district office assessor. From 1900 he practiced as a lawyer at the Zweibrücken Higher Regional Court. In 1919 he took part in the peace negotiations in Versailles as an expert.

After the First World War , Zapf became involved against the separatist movement in the Palatinate and joined the German People's Party (DVP) founded by Gustav Stresemann . Zapf, who held the title of Privy Councilor of Justice, sat for them from 1920 to 1930 and from 1932 to 1933 as a member of the Berlin Reichstag . Within the DVP, Zapf - who also had contacts with Edgar Jung - belonged to the right wing of the party. In the Reichstag he was a member of the economic committee.

In 1915, Zapf succeeded Franz Karcher as chairman of the supervisory board of Frankenthaler Zuckerfabrik AG, and in 1926 he initiated the merger of the interest group of southern German sugar factories to form Süddeutsche Zucker Aktiengesellschaft . He also became the new company's first board chairman.

Fonts

• The Redemptorists , Speyer 1893. (Dissertation)

Web links

• Albert Zapf in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 108 , 511
2. ^ Karl Martin Grass: Edgar Jung, Papenkreis and Röhmkrise 1933-34 , 1966, p. 10.