Friedrich Becker (politician, 1866)

Friedrich Jakob Becker (born May 17, 1866 in Rhodt unter Rietburg , Südliche Weinstrasse district , † January 3, 1938 in Wiesbaden ) was a lawyer and member of the Bavarian state parliament.

Life

Becker's parents were the landowner Carl Ludwig Becker and his wife Anna Barbara, both of whom had the Protestant denomination. From 1863 to 1889 his father was mayor of the wine-growing community of Rhodt unter Rietburg. Friedrich Jakob Becker had six siblings, two of whom died at the age of a few weeks.

Becker attended elementary school in his hometown before switching to the Latin school in Edenkoben . Then he attended the humanistic high school in Landau . From 1884 to 1888 he studied law in Strasbourg , Berlin and Munich . He served his year of military service in Munich. On October 1, 1894, he became public prosecutor in Frankenthal , then third public prosecutor in Kaiserslautern , and then on July 16, 1898, he returned to Frankenthal as second public prosecutor. Here he married the Protestant 27-year-old Eugenie Malwina Elfriede David on July 16, 1901. When he was appointed district judge in Zweibrücken , the family moved there. The two children Karl Theodor Cornelius, born on May 24, 1902, and Gertrud Bertha, born on December 20, 1909, were born in Zweibrücken.

On July 1, 1909, he was appointed deputy district court director and came to Kaiserslautern as the first public prosecutor on February 1, 1910. When the First World War broke out, he immediately volunteered and took part in the war from August 1914 to November 1918. As a Landsturm company commander, he became captain of the Landwehr. He received the Iron Cross II. Class, the Bavarian Military Merit Order IV. Class with Swords and the Auxiliary Service Cross. During his time as a soldier, he was appointed to the Higher Regional Court on February 1, 1916 and transferred to Zweibrücken.

In the state elections on February 2, 1919, he was elected to the Bavarian state parliament as a candidate for the national liberal German People's Party of the Palatinate (DVP) for the constituencies of St. Ingbert , Germersheim and Neustadt an der Haardt . The legislative period ran from February 21, 1919 to June 2, 1920. During this time, Becker was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Civil Service Issues, the Civil Service Remuneration Committee and the People's Court Committee. Becker was a member of the state board and state committee of the Palatinate DVP and one of the most enthusiastic, courageous and tireless party friends. Politically a child of his origins and time, he knew how to address the emotional state of his party friends in his speeches spiced with humor. At representative and party congresses as well as state committee meetings, he often gave the closing remarks, introduced resolutions or provided vivid explanations of the facts. When the supporters of Karl Jarres , the candidate of the DVP and DNVP for the presidential election, met in the Saalbau in Neustadt on March 26, 1925 , he gave the opening address and made the closing remarks.

On April 16, 1920 Becker became President of the Frankenthal Regional Court. During the battle against the Ruhr he was expelled from the Palatinate by the French on July 28, 1923. During the time of his deportation he was a councilor at the Supreme Court in Munich . In October 1924 the Becker family returned to Frankenthal from Munich. On January 1, 1927, he took up the post of President of the Zweibrücken Higher Regional Court . In Frankenthal, where he was an honorary member of the gymnastics club from 1848 and the warrior and military club, he was seen leaving for Zweibrücken with great regret.

When the National Socialists occupied the justice building in Zweibrücken on March 10, 1933 and denied access to the Jewish lawyers, he protested against this measure and managed to get the guard to leave at 5 p.m. He accepted the hoisting of the black-white-red and the swastika flag and saw, since there were no special features in the other courts of the district court district of Zweibrücken, there was no reason to initiate civil or criminal measures. At the time he was not informed about the imprisonment of numerous lawyers in the OLG district of Zweibrücken. When he received three telegrams from the Bavarian State Ministry of Justice on March 31, 1933, which contained the implementation of immediate measures against Jewish lawyers and judicial officers, he applied for permanent retirement on July 1, 1933, to which the brown ones Rulers corresponded.

After he left the judiciary, the Becker family moved from Zweibrücken to Wiesbaden , where he died on January 3, 1938. He found his final resting place in the cemetery of the municipality of Rhodt unter Rietburg. After the death of the “Aryan” husband, his widow was defenseless against the racial madness of the National Socialists. When she received the request on March 14, 1943 to be transported to Theresienstadt in Wiesbaden - she was staying with her daughter in Hofheim am Taunus - she committed suicide the next day. She also found her final resting place in the cemetery in Rhodt unter Rietburg.

literature

• Paul Theobald: Friedrich Jakob Becker - politician and judge of format . In: Frankenthal once and now, 2011, pp. 29–33.

Web links

• Friedrich Becker in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On the failure of democracy, The Palatinate at the end of the Weimar Republic, Gerhard Nestler, et al., P. 347