Franz Bartschat

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Franz Bartschat

Franz Bartschat (actually Friedrich Franz Bartschat ; born April 18, 1872 in Königsberg ; † October 28, 1952 in Brunsbüttelkoog ) was a German politician ( Progressive People's Party , German Democratic Party , German State Party ).

Life and work

Entry of the birth of Franz Bartchat in the Protestant church book of Königsberg

Franz Bartschat was a son of the worker Wilhelm Bartschat and his wife Anna, nee Schüssler. A handwritten additional note at the top of the entry (see picture) identifies the family as a dissident family registered with the competent local court. So the parents were not members of the Protestant regional church at the time of registration. The official biographies from the time he was a member of the Reichstag show Franz Bartschat as "free church, Protestant" or as a " Baptist ".

From 1878 to 1885 Bartschat attended elementary school and then the Königsberg Citizens' School , which he graduated from in 1886. After training as a plumber and the subsequent journeyman year (1887-1891), he embarked on the traditional years of travel for craftsmen , which led him through Hessen-Nassau , Westphalia and the Rhine Province .

After returning to his hometown, Franz Bartschat married Elisabeth Lydia, née Pipereit (1875–1952) in 1897. It is not yet known whether the marriage resulted in children. In 1899 he passed the master craftsman examination and went into business for himself. In 1906 he was elected chairman of the guild committee. He remained in this office until 1924. In 1912 he was appointed to the plenary session of the Chamber of Crafts , and in 1918 he became its deputy chairman. From 1916 to 1918 he was a board member and from 1918 to 1922 deputy chairman of the Königsberg Chamber of Crafts. Because of his services to the craft, he was appointed honorary chairman of the guild committee of the united guilds of Königsberg in 1925 .

Franz Bartschat was elected local chairman of the Hansa Association for Trade, Commerce and Industry in 1919. The Hansabund was founded in Berlin in 1909 and saw itself as a counterweight to the conservative and protectionist influence of the Federation of Farmers .

Political career

Franz Bartschat's political career began in the early years of the 20th century. In 1904 he became a city councilor in Königsberg and remained in this office until 1925.

In the German Empire, the master plumber belonged to the left-liberal Progressive People's Party , of which he became local group chairman in 1912. In the Reichstag election in 1912 , he was elected to the Reichstag of the German Empire for the Reichstag constituency of Königsberg 4 (Fischhausen-Königsberg-Land) , to which he belonged until 1918. For his party, he won over 54 percent of the votes cast in the constituency in the second ballot. As a member of the Reichstag, he participated in the following committees: trade and commerce, trade regulations, deliveries, petitions and housing. He chaired the latter committee.

In November 1918 the Progressive People's Party merged with parts of the National Liberal Party to form the German Democratic Party (DDP) . The group of founders included the publicist Theodor Wolff and professors Max Weber (1864–1920), Alfred Weber (1868–1958) and Hugo Preuss (1860–1925). In 1919, Franz Bartschat ran successfully for the newly founded party in the election to the constituent national assembly and was a member until the end of the legislative period.

From 1920 to 1930, Franz Bartschat was a member of the Reichstag in the following election periods:

Bartschat belonged to the right wing of the party within the DDP parliamentary group. Before the Reichstag election in 1930 , the DDP merged with the National People's Association and from then on called itself the German State Party (DStP). It kept this name until the self-dissolution in 1933, although the Reichsvereinigung terminated the collaboration relatively quickly. Election posters and flyers show that Bartschat ran for the DStP after June 1930, and in 1932 even as its top candidate. A renewed entry into the Reichstag was denied him.

From 1929 to 1933, Franz Bartschat was also a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of East Prussia .

After the Second World War he came to Schleswig-Holstein as a displaced person and settled in Brunsbüttelkoog. No evidence has been found of renewed political activity in the post-war period.

Publications (selection)

  • The history of the Königsberg plumber's guild over the past three centuries (together with Gustav Liessmann). Ostdeutsche Verlags Anstalt, Königsberg in East Prussia no year [1937?]

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the copy of the entry in the church book of the Evangelical Church Community of Königsberg / East Prussia.
  2. ↑ The facts and data in this section are based on Franz Bartschat , unless otherwise noted . BIORAB Weimar - Online; accessed on November 10, 2018
  3. ↑ Eckhard Hansen, Christina Kühnemund, Christine Schoenmakers, Florian Tennstedt (edit.): Biographical Lexicon for the History of German Social Policy 1871 to 1945 . Volume 2: Social Politicians in the Weimar Republic and National Socialism 1919 to 1945 . Kassel University Press, Kassel 2018, p. 9 f.
  4. ^ Imperial Statistical Office (ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912. Issue 2. Berlin: Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1913, p. 82 ( Statistics of the German Reich , Volume 250); Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890-1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 15). Half volume 1, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 16-19.
  5. ↑ Fritz Bartschat . BIORAB empire; accessed on November 10, 2018
  6. ^ Horst Wagner: The founding of the DDP in 1918 . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 11, 1998, ISSN  0944-5560 ( luise-berlin.de ).
  7. ↑ Franz Bartschat . In: Reichstag Handbook , 1st electoral period 1920, p. 168
  8. ^ Theodor Heuss: Citizens of the Weimar Republic. Letters 1918–1933 (edited and edited by Michael Dorrmann). KG Saur, Munich 2008, p. 229, note 8
  9. ^ Election call of the DStP 1932 (voters awake!) . German Historical Museum .de; accessed on November 10, 2018
  10. ^ Norbert Korfmache: Provisional list of members of the East Prussian Provincial Parliament 1919 to 1933 . 2018, p. 6, parliament.info (PDF)
personal data
SURNAME Bartschat, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FVP, DDP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1952
Place of death Brunsbüttelkoog