Ernst Härtrich

Ernst Härtrich (born July 18, 1871 in Poppenhausen ; † June 11, 1928 in Würzburg ) was a German lawyer and politician (Meininger Bauernverein, Thuringian Landbund ). He was a member of the Meininger and Thuringian state parliaments . He was State Councilor for Meiningen in the Thuringian state government.

Life

Härtrich, son of a farmer, attended the Georgianum Hildburghausen grammar school from autumn 1887 . There he passed his Abitur examination in the spring of 1893. From the summer semester of 1893 he began to study law at the University of Jena , but he moved to Leipzig in the winter semester of 1893/94 . There he joined the Association of German Students (VDSt) in the same semester . In the winter semester of 1894/95 he was chairman of the VDSt Leipzig. On July 4, 1896, he passed the legal traineeship, on July 11, 1896 , he received his doctorate . From August 13, 1896 he was a trainee lawyer in Hildburghausen. Between October 1896 and September 1897 he was a one-year volunteer with the Hessian Jäger Battalion No. 11 in Marburg . From April 1899 Härtrich was a trainee lawyer at the public prosecutor's office at the Meiningen district court , and later a trainee lawyer in Jena . On February 7th, Härtrich passed the assessor exam and then worked until 1905 as a court assessor in the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen . From 1905 he worked as a lawyer and notary in Meiningen.

During the First World War he served first as a first lieutenant in the Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 32, and later as captain of the Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 115 on the Western Front and in Macedonia . Due to a heart condition that he sustained during the war, he later served in the occupation forces in Belgium , Serbia and Russia . Most recently he served in the reserve battalion in Mühlhausen / Thuringia .

From January 1, 1914 to April 1919, Härtrich was a member of the Meiningen municipal council . In 1916 he was elected to the Landtag of Saxony-Meiningen in the constituency of Meiningen-Hildburghausen for the National Liberals. In 1919 he was elected to the Landtag of the Free State of Saxony-Meiningen for the Meiningen Farmers' Association, which he co-founded.

From December 16, 1919 to July 20, 1920 he was a member of the People's Council of Thuringia for the DNVP as a member of the Free State of Saxony-Meiningen. There he turned against the connection of Meiningen to Greater Thuringia.

After the state of Thuringia was created on May 1, 1920 from a merger of the Thuringian Free States, Härtrich was elected to the Landtag of Thuringia for the constituency of Saxony-Meiningen on June 20, 1920. He was there until July 30, 1921 a member of the Thuringian Land Association, which he co-founded.

From April 15, 1924 to December 12, 1925, Härtich was a member of the Thuringian state government as a state councilor ( minister without portfolio ). There he represented the former Free State of Meiningen. For health reasons he then withdrew from politics, but continued to work in the Meiningen Chamber of Agriculture, of which he was a member from 1920 until his death.

Härtrich died on June 11, 1928 in the Luitpold Hospital in Würzburg, where he wanted to have his heart disease treated.

Awards

• Iron Cross 2nd Class (1915)
• Sachsen-Meiningsche Cross of Honor for Merit in the War (1915)

literature

• Bernhard Post and Volker Wahl (eds.): Thuringia manual. Territory, constitution, parliament, government and administration in Thuringia from 1920 to 1995 . Böhlau, Weimar 1999, ISBN 3-7400-0962-4 , pp. 238 and 276.
• Marc Zirlewagen: Biographical Lexicon of the Associations of German Students . Volume 1: Members A-L . BoD - Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2014, ISBN 978-3-7357-2288-1 , pp. 284f.

Web links

• Norbert Moczarski: A “forgotten parliament” paved the way to Thuringia .