Christian Roth (politician)

Christian Roth

Christian Roth (born February 12, 1873 in Forchheim , † September 16, 1934 in Breslau ) was a German lawyer, civil servant and politician ( DNVP , NF , NSDAP ).

Life and work

After attending elementary school, the humanistic grammar school in Bamberg and graduating from high school in Erlangen in 1892 , Roth studied law in Erlangen and Berlin . In 1892 he became a member of the Bubenruthia Erlangen fraternity ; 1929 honorary member of the Alemannia Bonn fraternity . He put 1896, the first legal state examination, doctorate in 1898 for Dr. jur. and passed the second state examination in law in 1899. He then entered the Bavarian administrative service. He had worked as a District Office Assessor in Bogen since 1902 , was transferred to the Munich District Office in 1906 and, at his own request, to the Munich Police Department in 1911 .

At the beginning of the First World War , the captain of the reserve became head of department P at the deputy general command of the I. Bavarian Army Corps in Munich. After the end of the war he was on the flight of King Ludwig III. involved in Austria and after the suppression of the Soviet republic head of the legal department at the Munich city command . From November 1919 he was district administrator in Dachau .

In 1919 Roth was one of the founders of the Munich Rescue Service . At first he belonged to the Bavarian Middle Party (BMP), the Bavarian regional association of the DNVP, for which he was a member of the Bavarian state parliament from 1920 . From July 16, 1920 to September 11, 1921, he served as Bavarian State Minister of Justice in the state government led by Prime Minister Gustav von Kahr .

From February to September 1923 Roth was Political Director of the Working Group of the Patriotic Combat Units . In autumn 1923 he switched from the BMP to the NSDAP. Roth took part in the Hitler putsch ; in the coup government he was to become Bavarian Minister of the Interior. After the coup failed, he was temporarily detained.

In April 1924 Roth was re-elected to the Landtag for the Völkisch Block in Bayern (VBI), to which he had last been a non-attached member. From May to December 1924 he was a member of the National Socialist Freedom Party (NF) in the Reichstag , in which he represented the constituency of Franconia . After the dissolution of the VBI, Roth was a member of the National Social People's League around Anton Drexler from May 1925 .

In 1928, Roth left the state parliament and became attorney general at the Bavarian Administrative Court in Munich. After the transfer of power to the National Socialists, he rejoined the NSDAP on April 1, 1933.

Web links

Christian Roth in the database of members of the Reichstag
Christian Roth (politician) in the online version of the files of the Reich Chancellery. Weimar Republic
Christian Roth in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
Joachim Lilla : Roth, Christian . In: ders .: Minister of State, senior administrative officials and (NS) functionaries in Bavaria from 1918 to 1945.
Note at the Historical Lexicon of Bavaria

literature

Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 118-119.
Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , p. 526 f .
Thomas Schlemmer : Roth, Christian Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 110 ( digitized version ).
Peter Winter: Dr. Christian Roth (1873-1934). Biography of a Bavarian lawyer and politician. Regensburg 1990 Phil. Diss. On microfiche.

Individual evidence

^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 118.
↑ Martin Schumacher (ed.): MdR, the members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, p. 406.

personal data
SURNAME	Roth, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer, administrative officer and politician (DNVP, NF, NSDAP), MdR, Bavarian Minister of State
DATE OF BIRTH	February 12, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH	Forchheim
DATE OF DEATH	September 16, 1934
Place of death	Wroclaw

[1] Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 118.

[2] Martin Schumacher (ed.): MdR, the members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, p. 406.