Eugen von Quadt zu Wykradt and Isny

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Eugen von Quadt zu Wykradt and Isny

Eugen Franziskus de Paula Joseph Maria Alban Kaspar Graf von Quadt zu Wykradt and Isny (born January 6, 1887 in Isny im Allgäu ; † October 19, 1940 ibid) was a German politician and Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs.

Life

Eugen von Quadt zu Wykradt and Isny ​​came from the noble family Quadt . He was the son of Bertram I. Prince of Quadt (1849-1927) and Princess Ludovika von Schönburg -Hartenstein (1856-1932). Quadt married Pauline Countess zu Königsegg -Aulendorf on September 21, 1909 in Munich (born March 1, 1885 in Königseggwald ; † June 9, 1961 in Tuttlingen ).

After attending the humanistic grammar school, Quadt became a professional soldier . From 1908 he belonged to the 1st Heavy Rider Regiment "Prince Karl of Bavaria" as a regimental adjutant. In 1913 and 1914 he worked temporarily at the Bavarian legation in Berlin. During the First World War Quadt belonged to the senior adjutantage of the high command of the Imperial 6th Army , the Army Group under the Bavarian Crown Prince Rupprecht and the Army Group Mackensen . After his departure as Rittmeister, he was a member of the board of a Munich industrial company until 1924.

Quadt was a member of the Bavarian People's Party (BVP). Since September 1930 he was a member of the Reichstag . After the transfer of power to the National Socialists, he was Bavarian State Minister for Economic Affairs in the cabinet of Prime Minister Ludwig Siebert from April 25 to June 27, 1933 and thus the only minister who was not a member of the NSDAP . Quadt was seen as the “ gray eminence ” of Bavarian economic life. On June 27, 1933, he resigned as Minister of State because of the arrest of BVP functionaries. In the BVP he was the agent for the dissolution of the party. Quadt agreed the declaration of July 4, 1933 on the dissolution of the BVP with party chairman Fritz Schäffer , who was imprisoned in Munich's Stadelheim prison at the time. Quadt's request to BVP members to switch to the NSDAP did not receive any significant response.

He himself joined the NSDAP in July 1933 and joined the NSDAP faction as an intern in the Reichstag. According to Joachim Lilla, Quadt only applied for membership in the NSDAP on July 4, 1933, which was finally carried out on May 1, 1937. Quadt remained a member of the functionless National Socialist Reichstag until his death . In 1934 Quadt became a member of the SA , in which he achieved the rank of Rottenführer. In 1935 he joined the SS (membership no. 274.757) with the rank of SS-Untersturmführer and was finally appointed SS-Hauptsturmführer on September 11, 1938.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank Raberg:  Quadt zu Wykradt and Isny, Eugen Graf von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 29 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ^ Joachim Lilla: Quadt zu Wykradt and Isny, Eugen Graf v. , in: ders .: Minister of State, senior administrative officials and (NS) functionaries in Bavaria from 1918 to 1945 (October 9, 2012)

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SURNAME Quadt zu Wykradt and Isny, Eugen von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quadt zu Wykradt and Isny, Eugen Franziskus de Paula Joseph Maria Alban Kaspar Graf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR and Bavarian Minister of Economics
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Isny in the Allgäu
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1940
Place of death Isny in the Allgäu