Franz Schmitt (politician, 1862)

Franz Schmitt

Franz Schmitt (born March 11, 1862 in Würzburg , † September 21, 1932 in Munich ) was a German politician ( SPD ). Schmitt was a member of the Reichstag in the German Empire and later a member of the state parliament in Bavaria in the Weimar Republic, which he also faced as President.

Life and politics

Franz Schmitt finished elementary school and trained as an upholsterer . He worked in the profession he had learned until 1895. Before his political mandate, he worked as an innkeeper, local secretary and optician.

Franz Schmitt was politically active at an early age and was a founder and head of various professional organizations in the 1880s. From 1892 to 1893 he took over the chairmanship of the branch of the metal workers' association in Munich. He then worked for the Social Democratic Party from 1893 to 1899 as chairman in Munich and from 1899 to 1901 as a district executive in southern Bavaria. From 1895 to 1907 he worked as a wine owner and wine merchant in Munich outside of politics. He then turned back to political work and was party secretary in Munich from 1907 until his retirement in 1928. In the 15th legislative period (January 1912 to November 1918) he was also a member of the Reichstag for the constituency of Lower Franconia 6 (Würzburg). In 1927 he also took over the post of a member of the supervisory board of the Munich Post publishing house .

Shortly before the November Revolution, Franz Schmitt belonged as party secretary to the on 12./13. October 1918 taking place extraordinary party congress and was elected as deputy Bavarian SPD chairman. The party congress became necessary because the previous chairman, Georg von Vollmar, had resigned.

During the revolutionary period and the Weimar Republic , he was President of the Provisional National Council in Bavaria from November 8, 1918 to January 4, 1919 . He was then President of the Bavarian State Parliament from March 17, 1919 to March 18, 1920 , to which he had been a member since 1899.

literature

• Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Franz Schmitt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Franz Schmitt in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Franz Schmitt in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
• Franz Schmitt's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
• Franz Schmitt's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Database Social Democratic Members of the Reichstag and Reichstag candidates 1898-1918 (BIOKAND)
• Franz Schmitt's biography . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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 2, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 1099-113.
2. ↑ Kraus. Andreas: History of Bavaria . Munich: Verlag CH Beck, 2004, p. 620 - ISBN 3406515401 ( [1] )