August Asmuth

August Asmuth

August Asmuth (born May 22, 1884 in Wesel , † May 4, 1935 in Cologne ) was a German politician (center).

After attending elementary school and high schools in Hagen and Hamm , where he obtained his secondary school leaving certificate, Asmuth joined the Reichspostdienst in 1900. In 1918 he became chairman of the Association of Catholic Civil Service Associations in Germany. In 1919 he became a city councilor in Cologne.

In the Reichstag election of July 1932, Asmuth - who had meanwhile reached the rank of Chief Postal Inspector in Cologne - was elected to the Reichstag as a candidate for the Center for constituency 20 (Cologne-Aachen) , which he initially held until the November elections belonged to the same year. In the Reichstag election of March 1933, Asmuth was re-elected to parliament, which this time he belonged to until November 1933. The main parliamentary event that Asmuth was involved in during his term in parliament was the passage of the Enabling Act, which was decided, among other things, with his vote. The responsible politicians at the center hoped that, with the support of the Enabling Act, they would still be able to maintain a democratic basis in parliament in a reasonably peaceful manner, while they saw a rejection of guarantees previously promised by Hitler.

Fonts

• The civil service at a crossroads? A critical examination of the German civil service movement , Cologne 1920.

Web links

• August Asmuth in the database of members of the Reichstag