Albrecht Morath

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Albrecht Morath (born January 15, 1880 in Berlin , † September 21, 1942 in St. Wolfgang) was a German civil servant and politician (DVP).

Life and activity

In his youth, Morath attended the community school in Berlin from 1886 to 1892, then as a free student from 1892 to 1896 the municipal 4th secondary school. He then entered the postal service, where he made it to the post of senior post inspector in Berlin-Karlshorst or post director in Berlin-Zehlendorf.

In 1904 Morath became a board member of the Young Liberal Association and the National Liberal Main Association in Berlin. In the following year he was accepted into the entire board of the Evangelical Union to protect German Protestant interests. From 1911 he also held the function of secretary of the officials' committee of the National Liberal Party.

From September 1914 to 1918 Morath took part as a war volunteer in the First World War, in which he was used in the field post service as leader of the field post expedition to a cavalry rifle division.

After the war, Morath joined the German People's Party. For this he was a member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic for seven legislative periods from 1920 to 1932 .

Morath earned his living as a senior postal inspector. From 1920 to 1933 he was a member of the German People's Party (DVP). He was first elected on the occasion of the Reichstag election of 1920, then his mandate was confirmed in the two elections of 1924, the election of 1928, the election of 1930 and the two elections of 1932, before he finally left the Reichstag election of March 1933 Parliament resigned.

Within his party, he belonged to the left wing, but also maintained contacts with industrialists such as Hugo Stinnes .

In addition to his political work, Morath was an employee of various correspondence, specialist and daily newspapers, where he wrote mainly on population policy and official issues.

After 1933, Morath worked as a postal advisor in the Reichspostzentralamt.

Fonts

  • Post-revolutionary civil servant policy , 1922.
  • Land grab , 1923.
  • Reichsbesoldungsgesetz [salary law] of December 16, 1927 , 1928.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ International Review of Social History, 1956, p. 370.
personal data
SURNAME Morath, Albrecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil servant and politician (DVP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1942
Place of death St. Wolfgang