Bartholomäus Koßmann

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Bartholomäus Koßmann

Bartholomäus Koßmann (born October 2, 1883 in Eppelborn , † August 9, 1952 in Homburg ) was a German politician of the Center Party (later CVP ).

Life

After graduating from elementary school , Koßmann worked as a miner in the Camphausen mine from 1899 to 1905 . Koßmann joined the Catholic labor movement as a young man and at the beginning of March 1903 became secretary of the local Catholic workers' associations in Neunkirchen . From 1909 he was a member of the Neunkirchen municipal council and from 1917 was active on the board of the Catholic workers' associations.

Koßmann moved in 1912 as the youngest member of the German Reichstag for the center , where he represented the constituency of Trier 6 ( Ottweiler ) as a member . From 1914 he headed the mining department. After the First World War he was a member of the Weimar National Assembly from January 1919 to 1920 . In contrast to the majority of his group colleagues, he voted on June 22, 1919 in the National Assembly against the signing of the Versailles Treaty . In 1919 he was also a member of the Prussian State Constitutional Assembly . Koßmann was appointed senior councilor in 1920. From 1922 to 1925 he was chairman of the regional council and from 1924 a member of the government commission of the League of Nations for the Saar region . In addition, from 1920 to 1935, Koßmann worked in the League of Nations Administration in the People's Welfare Department.

On the Catholic side, Koßmann was one of the opponents of the Reich Concordat and belonged to the resistance group around Carl Friedrich Goerdeler . From 1942 the Gestapo started investigations against Koßmann. He was partially privy to the plans of the resistance and was included in the Beck / Goerdeler shadow cabinet as political sub-commissioner in military district XII (Wiesbaden) in the event of a successful coup. After the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , he was arrested two days later in Forbach . At first he was imprisoned in the Gestapo camp in Neue Bremm . a. transferred to the Ravensbrück concentration camp . Koßmann was acquitted at the People's Court on January 19, 1945, but remained in custody until February 12, 1945. After that he was monitored by the Gestapo until the end of the Second World War .

After the end of the war he was one of the founders of the CVP and became its honorary chairman. Koßmann was a member of the Saarland Constitutional Commission , which drafted the Saarland constitution. On October 5, 1947, he was elected to the newly founded state parliament of Saarland , to which he belonged until his death on August 9, 1952. In addition, from December 15, 1947, he was Vice President of the Saarland State Parliament. Koßmann campaigned for a peaceful settlement between France and Germany and - in contrast to Johannes Hoffmann - spoke out against an economic and political annexation of the Saarland to France.

Honors

The municipality of Eppelborn awards the Bartholomäus-Koßmann Medal for many years of civic engagement . In 2003, a Bartholomäus-Koßmann Foundation was established in Eppelborn.

Individual evidence

  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. ^ August Hermann Leugers-Scherzberg: Koßmann, Bartholomäus. In: The center faction in the Prussian State Constitutional Assembly 1919–1921. Meeting minutes. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5179-3 . P. 300.
  3. ↑ https://www.eppelborn.de/buergerdienste/einrichtungen/bartholomaeus-kossmann-stiftung

literature

  • Heinz Monz: Koßmann, Bartholomäus. In: Trier Biographical Lexicon. Overall processing: Heinz Monz . Verlag der Landesarchivverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz, Koblenz 2000, p. 233 ISBN 3-931014-49-5
  • Reinhold Bost : Bartholomäus Koßmann - Christian, trade unionist, politician - 1883–1952 . Gollenstein Verlag, 2002. ISBN 3-935731-34-5 .
  • Phillipp W. Fabry: Bartholomäus Koßmann - trustee of the Saar 1924-1935 . Gollenstein Verlag, 2011. ISBN 978-3-938823-99-6 *
  • Ludger Fittkau / Marie-Christine Werner: The conspirators. The civil resistance behind July 20, 1944 , wbg Theiss, Darmstadt 2019, ISBN 978-3-8062-3893-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Koßmann, Bartholomäus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kossmann, Bartholomew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (center, CVP), MdR, MdL
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Eppelborn
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1952
Place of death Homburg