Carl Anton Piper

Carl Anton Piper

Carl Anton Piper (born February 15, 1874 in Neubrandenburg ; † January 22, 1938 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German writer, journalist and politician (DVP).

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Carl Anton Piper was born as the son of the lawyer and district court president Carl (Wilhelm Albert) Piper (1837-1919) and his wife Margarethe (* 1852), daughter of the pharmacist and councilor Viktor Siemerling. Otto Piper (1882–1946) was his younger brother. After attending elementary school , the Carolinum grammar school in Neustrelitz and a grammar school in Neubrandenburg, Piper studied law and economics in Freiburg im Breisgau and Munich , and later history and literature in Munich. In 1898 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. He then earned his living as a daily writer. He practiced this profession first in Berlin at Scherl Verlag , later in Stuttgart at the Deutsche Verlagsanstalt. Later, Piper worked briefly as a correspondent for German newspapers in London and Paris , then, from 1909, again, and this time for a few years, as a correspondent in England. After his return he became a member of the editorial team of Hamburger Nachrichten in Hamburg . Politically he belonged to the National Liberals at that time .

Grave slab at the Deidesheim cemetery

After the war, Piper joined the German People's Party (DVP), for which he was elected to the first Reichstag of the Weimar Republic in June 1920 . After leaving parliament, to which he belonged until the election in May 1924 as a representative of constituency 7 (Mecklenburg), Piper was a member of the Hamburg parliament from 1924 to 1930 . From 1930 to March 1933, Piper served as Hamburg envoy in Berlin and as a deputy representative to the Reichsrat . It was right after the seizure of power of the National Socialists dismissed in Hamburg on 5 March 1933 and moved with his wife to the in law parental Reichsrat von Buhl estate to Deidesheim .

Fonts

• Contributions to the study of Grabbes , Munich 1898. (Dissertation)
• The fraternity , 1903.
• Architect Hermann Distel , Berlin 1929.

Web links

Commons : Carl Anton Piper  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Carl Anton Piper in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Carl Anton Piper in the state bibliography MV
• Carl Anton Piper in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ According to the gravestone inscription
2. ↑ Tobias C. Bringmann : Handbuch der Diplomatie, 1815-1963 , 2001, p. 205.
3. ^ Ernst Rudolf Huber / Gustav Schmidt / Gerhard Borawski: German Constitutional History since 1789 , 1984, p. 382.
4. ↑ Renatus Weber : The envoy Dr. Carl Anton Piper on the Weimar constitution in the Goethe year 1932. Speech at the last constitutional celebration of the Hamburg Senate on August 11, 1932. In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History. Year 1970, p. 98.