Ernst Scholz (politician, 1874)

Ernst Scholz

Ernst August Gustav Scholz (born May 3, 1874 in Wiesbaden , † June 26, 1932 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer in local government. In the Weimar Republic he was a member of the Reichstag.

Life

Scholz was the son of a councilor. After graduating from high school in Wiesbaden, he began studying law at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . In 1893 he became active in the Corps Suevia Freiburg . As an inactive , he moved to the Philipps University of Marburg . He finished his studies in 1895 at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , which made him Dr. iur. PhD .

Since 1899 assessor in the public service, he became first secretary of the general cooperative association in Charlottenburg in 1900 . In 1901 he went to Frankfurt am Main as a magistrate's assistant . He took part in World War I in 1914 and was wounded in the same year. He later left the Reichswehr as a major .

Scholz wrote about the Reich mortgage law and the community taxation system in Prussia as well as a legal book for cooperatives. From 1922 to 1929 he was chairman of the professional association of senior municipal officials in Germany .

politics

He joined the German People's Party in 1919 and represented the wing of his party loyal to the republic. After Gustav Stresemann's death in 1929, he took over the chairmanship of the DVP; However, he resigned his office in 1930 for health reasons and was replaced as party chairman by Eduard Dingeldey .

From 1902 to 1909 Scholz was alderman and treasurer of the city ​​of Wiesbaden and then held the same functions with the city ​​of Düsseldorf until 1912 . In 1912/13 he was Lord Mayor of the City of Kassel and in 1913/14 and from 1917 to 1920 the last Lord Mayor of the city ​​of Charlottenburg , which was then incorporated into Berlin . As a member of the "OB faction", Scholz was a member of the Prussian mansion from 1912 to 1918 .

From June 25, 1920 to May 10, 1921, Scholz served as Reich Economics Minister in the Fehrenbach cabinet . Through the new election in constituency 1 ( East Prussia ), Scholz had become a member of the Reichstag (Weimar Republic) on March 7, 1921 . From 1923 to 1930 he was chairman of the DVP parliamentary group. He resigned from the Reichstag in 1931 due to illness. He withdrew from politics and died at the age of 58.

Honors

• Dr.-Ing. e. H.
• Scholzplatz in Berlin-Charlottenburg (1931)

Fonts

• Today's community taxation system in Prussia. With particular reference to the western part of the monarchy. In: Community finances. Vol. 1: System of municipal taxation in Hesse, Württemberg, Baden, Alsace-Lorraine, Bavaria, Saxony, Prussia. Duncker et al. Humblot, Leipzig 1908, pp. 279-318.
• with Paul Donath: legal book for cooperatives. Guttentag, Berlin 1908.

literature

• Barbara Hillen:  Scholz, Ernst August Gustav. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 456 ( digitized version ).
• Scholz, Ernst. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , pp. 1692–1693.

See also

• List of members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic (1st electoral term)
• List of incorporated members of the Reichstag (Weimar Republic)

Web links

• Note from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation
• Dr. Ernst Scholz. Only 15 months in Kassel. Note from the city of Kassel
• Ernst Scholz in the database of members of the Reichstag. - Vita until 1930
• Scholz, Ernst August Gustav. Hessian biography. (As of January 16, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 36 , 480.
2. ↑ Scholzplatz. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert ).