Alfred Gildemeister

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Alfred Gildemeister (1920)

Alfred Gildemeister (born October 18, 1875 in London , † April 21, 1928 in Bad Eilsen ) was a German politician ( DVP ).

biography

family

Gildemeister was the third child and only son of overseas merchant and Prussian consul Martin Hermann Gildemeister (March 28, 1836 in Klein Siemen in Mecklenburg ; † June 16, 1918 in Fallingbostel) and his wife Anna Luise Sophie Stick (born March 21, 1849 in Lüneburg ; † 1942 in Bremen) born. The daughters Clara Maria Antonie and Leonore Bertha Sophie Charlotte had previously been born in 1871 and 1872 respectively.

education and profession

Gildemeister attended elementary school and high school . After graduating from high school, which he passed at Lyzeum II in Hanover in 1896 , he was trained as an officer candidate at the Hersfeld War School in the province of Hessen-Nassau . Until 1899 he belonged to the field artillery regiment No. 20. In 1899 Gildemeister began studying law, which he completed from 1899 to 1902 at the universities of Lausanne , Leipzig and Berlin . In 1902 he passed the first state examination in law. In 1903 he received his doctorate in Rostock Dr. jur. In 1906 the second state examination followed. Then he settled as a lawyer in Bremen . On August 27, 1907, he married Emilie Willig (born October 4, 1886 in Bremen; † June 8, 1870 ibid.). The three daughters Verena Anna Emilia Gildemeister (* 1908 in Bremen; † 1946), Christa Gildemeister, and Elisabeth Charlotte Christine, called Liselotte, emerged from the marriage. From 1912 Gildemeister was a notary.

In the First World War , Gildemeister initially took part as a battery operator from 1914 to 1916 . From 1917 to 1918 he was a representative of the Prussian War Ministry at the embassies in Kristiania and Copenhagen. He then took part in combat operations in Ukraine until 1919 as a division leader. He left the military as a major in the reserve.

Politician from 1919 to 1928

After the First World War, Gildemeister joined the German People's Party (DVP) founded by Gustav Stresemann . In 1919/20 he was a member of the constituent Bremen National Assembly . In 1920 he moved into the Bremen citizenship for the DVP , of which he was a member until 1927. In the Reichstag election of June 1920 , Gildemeister was put up as his party's candidate for constituency 16 (Weser-Ems) and elected as a member of the Reichstag . In the following two Reichstag elections, in May and December 1924 , Gildemeister's parliamentary mandate was confirmed, but his constituency Weser-Ems was now number 14 due to the renumbering of the constituencies . In the Reichstag, Gildemeister took over the deputy chairmanship of the transport committee.

Within the DVP, Gildemeister was one of the critics of the politics of party chairman Stresemann, whom he attacked violently, especially during his chancellorship in the summer / autumn of 1923 and at the turn of 1923/24. Gildemeister later insisted in particular that the DVP should not limit itself to being a “Stresemann party” - that is, an appendage to the successful party leader - but must find its own way.

In addition to his work in parliament, Gildemeister was a delegate in the Presidium of the North German Economic Association .

Fonts

  • Open trading company between spouses if there is a general community of property , Rostock 1903. (Dissertation)
  • Up again! A guide for the German people , Essen 1922, ed. by Walther Heide with the assistance of Alfred Gildemeister
  • The traffic situation in Germany , 1926.
  • German economic policy. The lectures by the Reich Minister of Economics , 1926.
  • Letters and Writings , 1929. (published posthumously)

literature

  • Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 124.
  • Uwe Plath [Ed.]: Memoirs of Anna Gildemeister (1849-1942) , 1994. (Memoirs of Gildemeister's mother)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Wulf: Hugo Stinnes. Economy and Politics 1918-1924 , 1979, p. 525.
  2. ^ Jonathan Richard Cassé Wright: Gustav Stresemann Weimar's Greatest Statesman , 2002, p. 247.
personal data
SURNAME Gildemeister, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DVP), MdBB, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1928
Place of death Bad Eilsen