August Ponschab

August Ponschab (born July 4, 1869 near Ingolstadt ; † January 20, 1944 there ) was a German politician (center, BVP).

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Ponschab was born the son of a brewery owner. From 1875 to 1879 he attended the boys' school in Ingolstadt and from 1885 to 1886 the brewery school in Augsburg . He then took over the brewery and his father's estate near Ingolstadt. Ponschab married twice, in 1894 and 1899, and survived both women.

In the German Empire, Ponschab was involved in the Catholic Center Party . For this he was elected to the Reichstag in 1912 for the constituency of Upper Bavaria (Ingolstadt-Pfaffenhofen-Freising) , to which he initially belonged until the collapse of the monarchy in November 1918.

After the end of the First World War , Ponschab left the Center Party and switched to the Bavarian People's Party (BVP), which was newly founded at the end of 1918 . In June 1920 he was elected to the Reichstag as a candidate for constituency 27 (Upper Bavaria-Swabia) , of which he was a member until May 1924.

In his home town of Ingolstadt, Ponschab temporarily served as second mayor; after the " seizure of power " he had to resign on March 25, 1933 under pressure from the NSDAP . According to family members, he destroyed his radio set when the Second World War broke out and from then on lived completely withdrawn.

Today a student dormitory named after him in Ingolstadt is a reminder of his life.

Individual evidence

↑ Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 . Issue 2. Berlin: Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1913, p. 95 (Statistics of the German Reich, Vol. 250)
↑ Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933-1945. Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5162-9 , pp. 440f.

Web links

August Ponschab in the database of members of the Reichstag

personal data
SURNAME	Ponschab, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (center, BVP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	4th July 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ingolstadt
DATE OF DEATH	January 20, 1944
Place of death	Ingolstadt

[1] Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 . Issue 2. Berlin: Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1913, p. 95 (Statistics of the German Reich, Vol. 250)

[2] Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933-1945. Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5162-9 , pp. 440f.