Bruno Kirchhof (politician, 1875)

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Paul Bruno Kirchhof (born May 20, 1875 in Dresden ; † May 2, 1955 ibid) was a German politician ( MSPD ) and the last Minister for Military Affairs in Saxony .

Life

After Kirchhof had finished an apprenticeship as a tailor , he was an employee of the tailors' association in Dresden from April 1907 to April 1919. In 1914 he had already been elected a board member of the union cartel in Dresden. In 1919 he became a city ​​councilor in Dresden.

After Gustav Neuring was lynched by an angry mob on April 12, 1919 due to planned pension cuts, Georg Gradnauer appointed Kirchhof as his successor on April 26. He held this office until the ministry was dissolved on May 4, 1920. Kirchhof had previously been entrusted with the management of the ministry and declared a state of emergency on April 13. As the uprisings in the young Weimar Republic became increasingly difficult to cope with, the state ministries for military affairs were dissolved: Instead, the Reichswehr command post in Saxony was set up, which replaced the ministry and which Kirchhof took over as chairman on August 20. On October 1, 1919, the command post was finally closed. Commander of the newly created Military District IV was General Maercker appointed. For the 1st constituency, Kirchhof also sat in the Saxon People's Chamber from February 1919 to November 1920 .

From May 1919 he was head of the local office for war welfare and from 1931 head of the welfare office in Dresden, the u. a. the administration of the municipal baths, the burial office and the women's hospital was responsible.

On March 14, 1933, the professional town councilor Kirchhof, together with Dresden's Lord Mayor Wilhelm Külz and others, was given leave of absence by Manfred von Killinger, initially with a salary cut, and then dismissed in July on the basis of the law to restore the civil service .

After 1945 Kirchhof was director of the social security fund in Dresden.

literature

  • Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1867-1933. Biographies, chronicles, election documentation. A handbook (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 7). Droste, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-7700-5192-0 , p. 547.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register of the Dresden registry office II No. 194/1955.
  2. ^ According to Karsten Rudolph: Die Sächsische Sozialdemokratie vom Kaiserreich zur Republik (1871-1923) , p. 70 he was "Trade Union Secretary of the Tailors in Dresden".
  3. ↑ Cf. Heinz Hürten (arr.): Between Revolution and Kapp Putsch . Düsseldorf 1977, p. 274 and Schultheß 1919 I, p. 398 and 415.
  4. ↑ See Josef Matzerath : Aspects of the Saxon State Parliament History. Presidents and MPs from 1833 to 1952 . Dresden 2001, p. 154
  5. ↑ Cf. Karlheinz Blaschke , Holger Starke , Uwe John: History of the City of Dresden: From the Founding of the Empire to the Present , Volume 3, 2006, p. 419. In the appendix, the dates of life from 1890 to 1976 are incorrectly given. However, these belong to the Westphalian FDP politician Bruno Kirchhof .
personal data
SURNAME Kirchhof, Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kirchhof, Paul Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, Saxon war minister, Dresden city council
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1955
Place of death Dresden