Ernst Höfer

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Ernst Höfer (born May 1, 1879 in Haina ; † June 14, 1931 in Konstanz ) was a German farmer and politician ( ThLB , CNBL ). From 1905 to 1931 he was a member of the state parliament in the Duchy and Free State of Saxony-Meiningen and in the state of Thuringia and from 1925 to 1927 as an honorary councilor for Meiningen, a member of the Thuringian state government.

Life

Ernst Höfer was born the son of a middle farmer. He attended elementary school from 1885 to 1893, then received private tuition in Eisfeld and from 1895 to 1899 completed the teachers' seminar in Hildburghausen . Between 1899 and 1901 he worked as a primary school teacher in Graefenthal , Exdorf and Römhild . After his voluntary retirement from school he did an agricultural training in the province of Saxony from 1902 to 1904 and at the same time worked as an estate inspector at the Zschepplin manor near Eilenburg . From 1904 he ran a farm in St. Bernhard near Themar .

Höfer was involved in farmers 'associations and was one of the founders of the civil-national farmers' association in Meiningen . From 1908 to 1909 he was district chairman of the Federation of Farmers in Meiningen and from 1912 chairman of the agricultural trade association Meiningen. From 1914 to 1915 he was deputy chairman and from 1915 to 1918 first chairman of the Meiningen Agriculture Council.

After the First World War he was again chairman of the Agriculture Council until 1921 and then chairman of the Saxony-Meiningen Chamber of Agriculture until 1923. Subsequently, he was a board member of the newly founded Thuringian Chamber of Agriculture. In addition, he was a board member of the Reichslandbund and temporarily a member of the standing committee of the German Agriculture Council based in Berlin . In 1929 he was elected honorary chairman of the Thuringian Jungland Federation.

Between 1905 and 1921 Höfer was a member of the state parliament of Saxony-Meiningen (from 1921 regional representation) as a representative of the federal state. From December 1919 to July 1920 he was also a member of the Thuringian People's Council. On May 11, 1919, he was one of the founding members of the Thuringian Land Association (ThLB) and was its first chairman from 1921 until his death in 1931.

After the founding of the state of Thuringia, Höfer was a member of the Thuringian state parliament from 1920 to 1931. In the state parliament he was parliamentary group chairman of the Thuringian federal state. From December 17, 1925 to April 29, 1927, he was an honorary councilor for Meiningen and a member of the Thuringian state government in the Leutheußer I cabinet . He represented the positions of the "Los-von-Thuringia Movement", which sought to join Bavaria .

From 1930 to 1931 he was Erwin Baum's successor as chairman of the Christian National Peasant and Rural People's Party (CNBL) at the national level. In the Reichstag election in 1930 , he was elected to the Reichstag as a nomination by the German rural population , but renounced his mandate.

One year later Höfer died unexpectedly during a stay in a sanatorium in Constance.

literature

  • Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? - Our contemporaries. IX. Output. Verlag Herrmann Degener, Leipzig 1928, p. 673.
  • Bernhard Post (Ed.): Thuringia Handbook. Territory, constitution, parliament, government and administration in Thuringia 1920 to 1995. Böhlau, Weimar 1999, p. 592.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermann Weiss , Paul Hoser (Ed.): The German Nationalists and the Destruction of the Weimar Republic. From Reinhold Quaatz's diary 1928–1933. Oldenbourg, Munich 1989, p. 253.
  2. ^ Socialist monthly books. Issue 37, 1931, p. 943. ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Höfer, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German farmer and politician (ThLB, CNBL), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Haina
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1931
Place of death Constancy