Sigmund Haller of Hallerstein

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Sigmund Haller von Hallerstein (born October 22, 1861 in Speyer , † March 20, 1936 in Großgründlach ) was a German social democrat in Bavaria. In 1918 he became a monarchist.

Life

Sigmund Haller von Hallerstein came from the Nuremberg patrician family Haller von Hallerstein . He attended high school in Bamberg . After graduating from high school, his father did not allow him to go into banking or become a businessman. In 1880 he began to study medicine at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen . He was active in the Corps Onoldia for six semesters . When he was inactive , he moved to the Philipps University of Marburg and the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel . In Kiel he was approved and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD.

In 1887/88 he was an assistant doctor in Munich . In the triple year he married his cousin Mia Freiin v. Haller . The marriage remained childless. Financially independent through the death of his parents, he was able to follow his old inclination and travel the world. As a ten-year-old he had already wanted to become a “world traveler”. As a ship's doctor at the North German Lloyd , he came to North America, South America and East Asia from the spring of 1889. The experience gained on these trips - the mass misery among the emigrants in the port cities - prompted him on his return in 1892 to study economics and law in Erlangen, Munich, Geneva and Berlin. He did not come to a conclusion. At that time Haller could have entered service and become consul; but he had met Gustav Nachtigal and Karl von Gravenreuth and shared their (widespread) outrage over the treaty between Germany and England on the colonies and Heligoland : "I cannot take a constitutional oath to a government that does such things."

From 1893 he practiced as a doctor in Munich. In 1895 he bought himself in Sankt Alban (Dießen am Ammersee) . There he operated horticulture, hunting and fishing. He was a district councilor and supervisory board member of the Heufeld chemical factory . Still unsatisfied, he turned more and more to public life and politics. The world trips, a long stay in England and the summer semester in Geneva - where he had met republicans from all countries as well as Albert Südekum and Georg von Vollmar - brought him to social democracy . Belonging to it meant social isolation and work in parliament or party was not paid. Nevertheless, Haller became secretary of the Bavarian parliamentary group in 1899. From 1900 to 1903 he took part in the party congresses as a delegate. His corps disapproved of the fact that he sharply attacked Prime Minister Friedrich Krafft von Crailsheim in a public session of the state parliament . Haller returned the tape.

Between 1905 and 1907 he was a member of the district council in Landsberg am Lech . Hallerstein, also called "Roter Freiherr", was on the left wing of the Bavarian SPD . He was one of the most prominent critics of the reformist-oriented chairman Georg von Vollmar. He also fought against Kurt Eisner's attempt, who at the time was also moderate, to take over the editorial management of the Fränkische Tagespost. Haller represented the constituency of Nuremberg 60 from 1900 to 1905 and the Erlangen constituency from 1907 to 1918 in the Chamber of Deputies (Bavaria) . In 1907 he ran in Rothenburg ob der Tauber in vain for the Reichstag (German Empire) . In 1910 he was a co-founder of Gartenstadt (Nuremberg) . In addition, from 1911 to 1920 he was a member of the tax committee at the Munich II municipal tax office. In December 1918 he became a member of the provisional National Council. During the November Revolution he became a State Councilor in the Bavarian Ministry of Finance . In office until November 1, 1919, he earned merit by preventing misuse of the Royal Bank - renamed Bayerische Staatsbank . On January 12, 1919, he was elected to the state parliament. In the same year he became a monarchist .

“Disgusted by the party rubbish of a purely personal kind and by the dishonorable behavior of the Social Democratic Party at the end of the World War, Haller solemnly renounced all party ties in 1919. After leaving the party, Haller tried to re-establish the connection to the Corps. The matter with Count Crailsheim was cleared of the world by an exchange of letters which honored both Count and Haller in the same way. So Haller got the tape back. "

- Obituary in the Onolden newspaper (ed.)

In 1919 he joined the Dresdner Bank as a trainee in Munich . In 1920 he was first vice president of parliament. In 1922 - at the time of the German inflation from 1914 to 1923 - he moved to the Bayerische Vereinsbank . He was active in the revaluation and in the archive. After reaching the age limit , he left at his own request at the age of 65. As the eldest of the family and patronage, he moved to the now vacant Großgründlach Castle . He took care of the maintenance of the castle and the workers' apartments, took care of the leasing of the property and the administration of the family foundations and looked after the castle gardens with particular love. Until 1926 he worked at the Bayerische Vereinsbank in Nuremberg. He had had a lung disease since the fall of 1933 and died at the age of 74.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Onolden-Zeitung, Volume 18 (1936), pp. 8-12
  2. ^ Bernhard Grau, Kurt Eisner
  3. ↑ Remembrance days , anniversaries and historical commemorative dates for the year 2011 ( Memento from January 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
predecessor Office successor
Josef Simon Cabinet Hoffmann I (Bavaria) : Commerce, Industry and Commerce
April 8, 1919 to May 31, 1919 		Eduard Hamm
personal data
SURNAME Haller von Hallerstein, Sigmund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haller von Hallerstein, August Sigmund Karl Ulrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Speyer
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1936
Place of death Großgründlach