Andreas Kerschbaum

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Andreas Kerschbaum

Andreas Kerschbaum (born March 5, 1874 in Borbath ; † April 21, 1933 in Nuremberg ) was a German farmer and politician (DDP; DBP).

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Kerschbaum came from a Protestant family from Middle Franconia . After attending primary school, he was trained as a farmer. From 1894 to 1896 he was in the military. Then he resumed his work as a farmer in his Franconian homeland .

In 1912 Kerschbaum was elected to the Reichstag as a candidate of the German Farmers' Union with the support of the National Liberal Party in the constituency of Middle Franconia 6 ( Rothenburg ob der Tauber ) , to which he initially belonged until 1918. He owed his election victory in particular to the support of the SPD, which recommended that its supporters vote for Kerschbaum in the second election round, organized as a runoff, in order to prevent a "black-and-blue" candidate from winning. In addition, Kerschbaum belonged to the local council of his home country and the agricultural district committee as well as the boards of various agricultural cooperatives and the farmers' union. From August 1914 to Christmas 1917, he took part in the First World War as Vice Sergeant in the Landsturm . During the war, Kerschbaum received, among other things, the Bavarian Military Merit Cross, 2nd class.

After the end of the war and the fall of the monarchy in Germany, Kerschbaum was elected to the Weimar National Assembly in February 1919, now a member of the German Democratic Party , for constituency 26 (Upper, Middle and Lower Franconia) . Following his work in the National Assembly, he was a member of the first Reichstag of the Weimar Republic from 1920 to May 1924 . In this he represented constituency 26 (Francs). After Kerschbaum had failed his candidacy in the elections of May 1924, he managed to return to parliament seven months later in December of the same year as a member of the Bavarian Farmers' Association, in which he now represented constituency 26 (Franconia).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 . Issue 2. Berlin: Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1913, p. 97 (Statistics of the German Reich, Vol. 250); compare also Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890–1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 15). Half volume 2, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 1081-1085.
  2. ↑ See, http://www.spd-nea.de/index.php?mod=content&page_id=5326&s=10&menu=70200 .

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SURNAME Kerschbaum, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German farmer and politician (DDP, DBP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Borbath
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1933
Place of death Nuremberg