Carl Diez

This article deals with the politician Carl Diez. For other people see Carl Dietz and Karl Dietz .

Carl Diez

Carl (Karl) Diez (* 8. January 1877 in Öhningen , Baden , † 24. June 1969 in Radolfzell ) was a German farmer and politician of the Center Party .

Life and work

After attending primary school , Diez attended the agricultural winter school in Radolfzell for two semesters . From 1896 he worked first as an agricultural volunteer and then as an administrator. In 1904 he took over a farm in Radolfzell and also ran a forwarding company . During the First World War he served on the Western Front and in Romania . He was a co-founder of the district farmers' council for Upper Baden. He later became president of the central office for the German transport and traffic industry. Until 1933 he was also president of the Catholic men's association in Baden. On September 21, 1933 he was arrested for the first time by the National Socialists . Further arrests followed until 1945.

Diez was married, and his son Theopont was mayor of Singen (Hohentwiel) . The Carl-Diez-Strasse in Öhningen and Radolfzell were named after him.

Political party

Diez was a member of the center . He was a close confidante of Matthias Erzberger . On August 26, 1921, Carl Diez accompanied his party friend Erzberger near Bad Griesbach in the Black Forest when Erzberger was shot by members of the Consul Heinrich Tillessen (1894–1984) and Heinrich Schulz (1893–1979) organization. Diez was seriously injured by gunfire.

As early as the Weimar Republic , Diez campaigned for a merger between Baden and Württemberg to form a south-western state, as it was actually created in 1952.

After the Second World War , Diez participated in the founding of the BCSV , which later became the Baden regional association of the CDU .

MP

Diez was a member of the Reichstag for the constituency of Constance from 1912 to 1918 . He was 1919 /20 member of the Weimar National Assembly . Then he was again a member of the Reichstag until 1933 . At the vote on the Enabling Act on March 23, 1933, he was absent and was therefore the only member of the Center Group not to vote for it.

From 1913 Diez was also a member of the Radolfzell Citizens' Committee.

Public offices

In 1946 Diez was a member of the provisional state presidency of Baden set up by the French occupation forces .

Publications

• Radolfzell in the past and present . With the use of archivist Peter P. Albert: History of the city of Radolfzell , with special consideration of the development of the city since 1870. With contributions by E. Diez, Markdorf, and Dr. Beyerle, Göttingen, Radolfzell: Josef Huggle, 1916, 84 pp.
• A person's life story . Constance: Aktienges. Oberbadische Verlagsanstalt, 1929, 79 pp.

Stumbling block

On July 2, 2016, Carl Diez was given an opening in front of his former home in Jakobstr. 5, Radolfzell, a stumbling block was laid. It bears the inscription : "Here lived / Carl Diez / born 1877 / 'protective custody' 1933 / arrested 1944 / 'broadcast crime' / action 'grid' / Konstanz prison / Radolfzell prison / released 1944."

literature

• Hermann Hillger : Hillger's handbook of the German constituent assembly 1919. Hillger, Berlin, Leipzig 1919, 512 pp.
• Carl Diez, German politician . In: Munzinger Archive / International Biographical Archive 17/1948 of April 12, 1948
• Diez, Carl, farmer, MdR-Z, member of the resistance against the Nazi regime, Ministerialdirektor, (South) Baden Minister of Agriculture, 1877-1969 . In: Baden-Württembergische Biographien, Volume 3. Published on behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg by Bernd Ottnad (†) and Fred L. Sepaintner, 2002, XXII, 513 S., ISBN 978-3-17-017332 -3 , p. 32.

Movie

• Carl Diez - I'm staying. Documentation of a life in democracy and dictatorship. A film by Dieter Stadtfeld. Documentary. Black and white and color. 85 min. Weikenmeier & Stadtfeld, Cologne 2020. The film was uploaded to Vimeo by the creators and was released in July 2020; vimeo.com/441469059 , accessed August 20, 2020.

Web links

• Literature by and about Carl Diez in the catalog of the German National Library
• Carl Diez in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Biography of Carl Diez . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rudolf Morsey : The German Center Party 1917 - 1923 . Habil. Writing, Bonn. - Düsseldorf: Droste, 1966, 651 p., P. 19, note 15
2. ^ Matthias Erzberger, Assassinations of the Weimar Republic (PDF; 204 kB)