August Dresbach

August Dresbach's candidate poster for the 1953 Bundestag election

August Dresbach (born November 13, 1894 in Pergenroth , † October 4, 1968 in Ründeroth ) was a German politician ( CDU ).

Life and work

After secondary school and Abitur in Gummersbach , Dresbach, who was of Protestant faith, studied law and political science in Göttingen , where he was a member of the Hannovera fraternity , Bonn and Heidelberg , where he was awarded a doctorate with a dissertation on the situation of Waldbröler pavers. phil. received his doctorate. During the First World War , for which he volunteered as a volunteer, his studies were interrupted several times by military service. He returned from the war as a lieutenant in the reserve, seriously wounded. After graduating, he worked for the chambers of commerce in Essen and Remscheid until 1925 . In 1923 he was arrested by the French occupying forces in the Ruhr area and sentenced to six months in prison. From 1925 to 1939 he worked as a journalist for the Kölnische Zeitung . He then worked as a consultant at the Agriculture Office in Düsseldorf before working again as a journalist from 1941 to 1943, this time for the Frankfurter Zeitung . In 1943/44 he was a consultant at the Chamber of Agriculture in Wiesbaden . From 1944 Dresbach was the second managing director of the Gauwirtschaftskammer Cologne-Aachen.

In 1946, Dresbach became second general manager of the Cologne Chamber of Commerce and 1951 general manager of the Essen Chamber of Commerce.

politics

In the Weimar Republic , Dresbach was briefly a member of DNVP in 1919 before joining the DVP . In 1945 he participated in the founding of the CDU in the Oberbergischer Kreis . Since he was never a member of the NSDAP, August Dresbach was appointed by the Allies as district administrator of the Oberbergischer Kreis on May 7, 1945. From 1946 he was an honorary district administrator, but resigned from office on November 14, 1951. From 1947 to 1951 he was chairman of the district assembly of North Rhine-Westphalia and from 1949 to 1951 president of the German district assembly .

Dresbach was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1946 to 1947 . He was a member of the German Bundestag from the first election from 1949 to 1965 and represented the constituency of the Oberbergischer Kreis as a member of parliament that was always directly elected . From December 1950 to October 1951 he was deputy chairman of the Bundestag committee for internal administration. In 1961, as a member of parliament, Dresbach criticized the appointment of his parliamentary colleague Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt to the position of Federal Minister for Family Affairs, because "a woman is not strong enough for such an office".

Honors

In 1955 August Dresbach received the order against seriousness . The reason was that, according to the minutes of the Bundestag, he succeeded in evoking “cheerfulness”, sometimes even “stormy cheerfulness”, among the members of the parliament 46 times during a debate.

In 1957, Dresbach was the first to receive the Karl-Bräuer-Preis , founded by the Association of Taxpayers in Germany , which is awarded for important journalistic or academic work that affects public finance. In 1959 he received several honors: The University of Cologne awarded him the title of Dr. jur. H. c., the municipality of Ründeroth named August-Dresbach-Strasse after him and the German District Association made him an honorary member. August Dresbach, who was a member of the Raabe Society , received its medal in 1960. The University of Göttingen awarded him the Johann Stephan Pütter Medal in 1964 . In 1978 a path in the district of Ohlhagen in the Reichshof community , where Dresbach had lived until 1955, was named August-Dresbach-Weg .

Publications

• From the German East and its Agriculture, Cologne: Kölnische Zeitung, 1929
• Agricultural journey through France, Cologne: Kölnische Zeitung, 1929
• Commune and Economy, Cologne: Kölnische Zeitung, 1929
• Critical accompanying words on the administrative structure in western Germany, Stuttgart and Cologne, Kohlhammer, 1949
• The legitimate public economy with special consideration of the savings bank system, Munich: Bayerischer Sparkassen- und Giroverband, 1954
• Afraid of monetary property ?, Frankfurt: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 1955

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 158.
• Klaus Oldenhage, Henning Tegtmeyer : To fight the new Nazis. A contribution by August Dresbach (Hannovera Göttingen 1914) in the German Bundestag , annual edition of the Society for Burschenschaftliche Geschichtsforschung e. V. (GfbG), 2008, Koblenz 2009, pp. 67-76
• Klaus Goebel, Gerhard Pomykaj: An uncomfortable democrat. August Dresbach on his 100th birthday . Published by the Oberbergischer Kreis. Gummersbach 1994
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , p. 220.
• Henning Tegtmeyer: August Dresbach. Fraternity, Democrat, Member of the Bundestag . In: Klaus Malettke , Klaus Oldenhage (ed.): Fritz Hellwig . Saarlanders, Germans, Europeans. A commemorative publication for the 100th birthday. In: Representations and sources on the history of the German unity movement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries , Volume 20. Heidelberg 2012, pp. 297–336

Web links

• August Dresbach at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Literature by and about August Dresbach in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ The social and economic situation of the pavers in the Waldbröl district. A contribution to internal migration, Heidelberg dissertation, 1919, Gummersbach: Verlag Luyken, o. J.
2. ^ German Bundestag (ed.): Plenary minutes of the 30th session of May 21, 1954 . No. 2/30 . Dr. Hans Heger, Bad Godesberg May 21, 1954, p. 9–13 ( bundestag.de [PDF; accessed on May 3, 2015]).