Fridolin Rothermel

Fridolin Rothermel (born November 26, 1895 in Oberrohr ; † October 6, 1955 in St. Dizier , France) was a Bavarian agricultural politician.

Life

Rothermel came from a Swabian farming family. After his military service in 1914/1918, he studied economics in Munich. He finished his studies in 1921 with a doctorate on "The Ursberger Charities". In 1928 he joined the Christian Farmers' Association under Georg Heim . As a representative of the Bavarian People's Party , he became a member of the Reichstag in 1932 , where, like all members of the BVP , he voted for Hitler's Enabling Act . After Hitler came to power in 1933, he was temporarily imprisoned. Thereupon he retired to his farm near Ursberg until he was called up for military service again in 1939 (captain d. R.). After the war ended in 1945 he was appointed head of the Krumbach Food Office and founded the Christian-Social Union at the district level , for which he was elected to the state constitutional assembly and the Bavarian state parliament in 1946. In the same year he was elected President of the Bavarian Farmers' Association . Since December 1947 he was also a member of the Bavarian Senate . From 1954 he was with Edmund Rehwinkel and Bernhard Bauknecht part of the three-man executive presidential college of the German Farmers' Association . During a business trip to Paris he was the victim of a traffic accident and died on October 6, 1955 in St. Dizier in France.

literature

• Georg Kreuzer: On the written estate of the former Krumbach District Administrator and President of the Bavarian and German Farmers' Association Dr. Fridolin Rothermel (1895–1955). In: Journal of the Historical Association for Swabia. Volume 86, 1993, pp. 275-283
• Thomas Schlemmer:  Rothermel, Fridolin. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 122 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Fridolin Rothermel in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
• Fridolin Rothermel in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernd Haunfelder : Reichstag member of the German Center Party. 1871-1933. Biographical manual and historical photographs. ( Photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 4). Droste, Düsseldorf 1999, ISBN 3-7700-5223-4 , p. 349.