Franz Bracht

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Franz Bracht (1932)

Clemens Emil Franz Bracht (born November 23, 1877 in Berlin ; † November 26, 1933 there ) was a German lawyer and politician. He worked at various courts and in the Reich Chancellery and then from 1924 to 1932 Lord Mayor of Essen . In this position, as a result of the Prussian strike, he was appointed Reich Commissioner for the Prussian Ministry of the Interior from July 1932 by Reich Chancellor Franz von Papen as well as Deputy Reich Commissioner for Prussia, whereby he effectively headed the Prussian government in place of Papen until January 1933. Under Reich Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher , he was also Reich Minister of the Interior from December 1932 to January 1933 .

Life

Bracht was the son of a doctor. After graduating from high school in 1894, he began to study law and political science at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . In 1897 he was reciprocated in the Corps Rhenania Würzburg . He moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and passed the first state examination in law in 1900 . He completed his legal clerkship in Berlin. In 1904 he passed the second state examination in law. He was assessor at the public prosecutor's office in Köslin , at the Essen regional court and at the Hamm Higher Regional Court . In 1909 he became a public prosecutor in Essen . He later moved to the Hamm Higher Regional Court.

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Bracht had worked for the Reich Insurance Office (RVA) in Berlin since 1908 and was promoted to the government council there in 1911. In addition, he worked from 1916 to 1918 as a lecturer in administrative law at the Agricultural University in Berlin . From 1918 to 1923 he worked as a lecturer in the Reich Ministry of the Interior and as a ministerial director in the Ministry for People's Welfare of the State of Prussia . In the late phase of the Weimar Republic he was a member of numerous boards and supervisory boards of companies. In 1930 he was promoted to the secret government council. Bracht died of heart disease in 1933 and was buried in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf in Berlin.

Political party

Bracht was initially a member of the German Center Party , but left the party in the early 1930s and was then non-party.

Public offices

Bracht worked as State Secretary in the Reich Chancellery in 1923/1924 and was appointed Lord Mayor of Essen on December 18, 1924 . In the course of the so-called “ Prussian Strike ” on July 27, 1932, Bracht was appointed Deputy Reich Commissioner for Prussia. He was entrusted with carrying out the business of the Prussian Minister of the Interior . On October 31, 1932, he resigned his mayor's office.

On October 29, 1932, Bracht was appointed Reich Minister without portfolio to the Reich government led by Reich Chancellor Franz von Papen . On December 3, 1932, he was appointed Minister of the Interior in the Reich government led by Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher . With the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Reich Chancellor, he resigned from the Reich government on January 30, 1933 .

Honors

Others

Bracht was responsible for the last political posse of the Weimar Republic . On September 28, 1932, he issued the Police Ordinance to supplement the Bathing Police Ordinance of August 18, 1932 , the so-called " Zwickelerlass ".

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Franz Bracht  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 143/401.
  2. ↑ The Prussian swimming trunks . ( Memento from January 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Institute for Urban History
personal data
SURNAME Bracht, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bracht, Clemens Emil Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (center, later independent), Lord Mayor of Essen, Reich Minister
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1933
Place of death Berlin