Alfred Roth (politician)

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Alfred Roth (born April 27, 1879 in Stuttgart ; † October 9, 1948 in Hamburg ) or with the pseudonym Otto Armin was a radical anti-Semitic agitator, federal warden of the Reichshammerbund and chief executive of the German Völkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund .

Life

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After attending the community school and the commercial advanced training school in Stuttgart, Roth attended lectures at the high school authorities in Hamburg. He completed an apprenticeship as a businessman, joined the management of the German National Handler Association in 1900 and remained in this position until the summer of 1917. Then he was social secretary at the Rheinische Stahlwerke in Duisburg - Meiderich until the spring of 1919 . From 1912 he was an honorary member of the Reich Insurance Company for employees .

Roth served as a one-year volunteer in the infantry regiment "Kaiser Friedrich, König von Preußen" (7th Württembergisches) No. 125 , from which he was released in November 1918 as captain of the reserve. During the First World War he was wounded four times and received a. a. the Wound Badge in silver, both classes of the Iron Cross and the Knight's Cross of the Württemberg Military Merit Order on October 5, 1916.

Roth was an active member of the Reichshammerbund, which was founded in 1912 , until he converted to the much better-known Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund in 1920 . He headed it from 1918 to 1933 as general manager, despite the chairman Konstantin Freiherr von Gebsattel (1854–1932), who was endowed with all dictatorial powers .

Under the leadership of Roth as a leading employee of the German National Handicrafts Association and convinced anti-Semite, the Reichshammerbund primarily pursued racist goals and propagated the renewal of German nationality.

In 1921 he defamed the "Ballin-Rathenau system" as the cause of Germany's defeat in a hate speech and thus supported the anti-Semitic and conspiracy-theoretical component within the stab in the back of the stab : "While the German soldier at the front with weapon in hand was defending his fatherland", According to the tenor of the anti-Semitic propaganda, “the Jews in their homeland have unscrupulously enriched themselves from the plight of the German people”.

In May 1923 Alfred Roth was sentenced to a fine of 500,000 Reichsmarks or 100 days in prison for publicly insulting Walther Rathenau . The State Court in Leipzig gave Roth's racial anti-Semitism and his racially motivated accusations against Rathenau a clear rejection, but the general assessment of racism was extremely low.

In May 1924 , Roth was elected to the Reichstag on the Reich election proposal for the German National People's Party .

On March 29, 1936, he ran unsuccessfully for the NSDAP, which he had already joined in 1928, in the Reichstag elections on the bottom list number 1026.

literature

  • Walter Jung: Ideological prerequisites, contents and goals of foreign policy programs and propaganda in the German-Volkish movement in the early years of the Weimar Republic - The example of the German-Volkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund . Göttingen 2000 ( PDF; 5.4 MB )
  • Uwe Lohalm, Martin Ulmer: Alfred Roth and the Deutschvölkische Schutz- und Trutz-Bund “Pacemaker for the Third Reich” . In: Daniel Schmidt, Michael Sturm , Massimiliano Livi (Hrsg.): Wegbereiter des Nationalozialismus. People, organizations and networks of the extreme right between 1918 and 1933 (= series of publications by the Institute for City History . Vol. 19). Klartext, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1303-5 , p. 21 ff.
  • Hans Peter Müller: Alfred Roth (1879-1948) in the German National Trade Aid Association. The “apprenticeship and journeyman years” of a professional anti-Semite , in: Yearbook for Antisemitism Research, 22 (2013), pp. 179–206
  • Elke Kimmel: Roth, Alfred , in: Handbuch des Antisemitismus , Volume 2/2, 2009, pp. 695f.
  • Uwe Lohalm: Alfred Roth (1879–1948), in: Hamburgische Biographie. Lexicon of persons, edited by Franklin Kopitzsch u. Dirk Brietzke, Vol. 2, Christians, Hamburg 2003, pp. 351-352, ISBN 3-7672-1366-4
  • Uwe Lohalm: Völkischer Radikalismus. The history of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutz-Bund 1919–1923 (= Hamburg Contributions to Contemporary History VI), Leibniz, Hamburg 1970, ISBN 3-87473-000-X

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto von Moser : Die Württemberger in the world wars. 2nd expanded edition, Chr.Belser AG, Stuttgart 1928, p. 118.
  2. ^ German Historical Museum: Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund
  3. ↑ Alfred Roth: To recognize my defense speech before the State Court in Leipzig on the request of the senior Reich attorney against me for eight months in prison. In: The State Court and the Volkish Thought . Hamburg 1923, p. 13 (printed as an excerpt from the detailed negotiating document)
personal data
SURNAME Roth, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Armin, Otto (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German federal warden of the Reichshammerbund and politician (DVP, NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1948
Place of death Hamburg