Bernhard Leopold
Bernhard Leopold (born September 28, 1879 in Halle an der Saale ; † September 17, 1962 in West Berlin ) was a mountain assessor and a German politician ( DNVP ). From 1920 to 1932 he was a member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic.
Life
Bernhard Leopold worked in mining and then studied in Munich and Berlin, on October 10, 1902, he passed his mining trainee examination. He then received practical training in Saarbrücken, Westphalia, Upper Silesia, Oberkirchen and Halle until 1908 and was finally appointed a mountain assessor on October 31, 1908. He initially worked at the Oberbergamt von Halle, until in 1909 he became assistant manager of a Zeitz paraffin and salon oil factory. From 1911 he was an authorized officer of this company.
In 1912 he became chairman of the mining association in Halle and a member of the supervisory board of several settlement companies. He took part in World War I from 1914 until he returned wounded in 1916. He was elected to the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic for the first time in constituency 11 (Merseburg) in 1920, to which he belonged until the end of the fourth legislative period in 1930. Leopold was imprisoned during the time of National Socialism. After the end of the Second World War he was a district councilor in Berlin-Zehlendorf from 1945 and was chairman of the local CDU district association in 1956/57 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Bernhard Leopold in the catalog of the German National Library
- Bernhard Leopold in the database of members of the Reichstag
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reinhard Schreiner, names and dates from six decades of party work, The chairmen and managing directors of the CDU state, district and district associations from 1945 to 2007 (PDF; 1.0 MB), page 82.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leopold, Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (DNVP), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halle on the Saale |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th September 1962 |
| Place of death | West Berlin |