Friedrich Lohse

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Friedrich Christian Ludwig Lohse (born September 8, 1872 in Hude ; † December 13, 1931 in Oldenburg (Oldb) ) was a German lawyer and politician ( DVP ).

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Lohse was the son of the pastor Johannes Christoph Anton Lohse (1844–1913) and his wife Helene Auguste nee. Langreuther. He attended high school in Vechta and then studied law at the universities of Jena , Marburg and Berlin . After completing his exams, he settled in 1903 as a lawyer in Oldenburg, where he worked in one of the oldest law firms in the city and focused primarily on civil litigation. In 1904 he was appointed Advocatus Fisci (representative of the Treasury in litigation) in the State Ministry with the title of Judicial Council. From 1920 to 1922 he was chairman of the Bar Association of the City of Oldenburg and from 1925 also member of the board of the Oldenburg Insurance Company from 1857 .

Lohse was also politically active at an early age and had been a member of the National Liberal Party (NLP) since 1909 , in which he quickly achieved a leading position. After the end of the First World War he was chairman of the NLP state committee and ensured that the party was affiliated with the German People's Party (DVP). In early 1920 he became a member of the executive board and then chairman of the Oldenburg regional association of the DVP, which he led until February 1931. From March 1919 to February 1924 he was a member of the Oldenburg state parliament as the party leader . He participated in the drafting of the 1919 constitution, but was probably not a staunch supporter of the republic.

Since 1919, he viewed himself almost passionately and openly antipathy as - in his view - a necessary counter-figure to Prime Minister Theodor Tantzen . Lohse accused him of being part of the book economy , suppressing attitudes and autocratism .

In the negotiations at the state level about the DVP's entry into the Weimar coalition of SPD , DDP and Zentrum , Lohse repeatedly triggered endless discussions and ultimately let the talks fail because the DVP turned away from the coalition. In 1923 he indirectly contributed to the resignation of the Tantzen government . He resigned his state parliament mandate deliberately on February 28, 1924, at which time the negotiations for the formation of a grand coalition with the participation of the DVP and with it Lohses in the Free State of Oldenburg were about to be concluded.

With the elimination of the Tantzen government, Lohse had achieved his main goal and was now supporting the establishment of an apolitical specialist cabinet as a government that was to stand above the parties. He also achieved this goal in 1923. In 1924/25 he advocated a corporative state structure , which again stood in opposition to parliamentary democracy . To preserve a right-wing center in Oldenburg, he suggested the formation of a regional bloc made up of the DVP and the German National People's Party (DNVP). When this dissolved in 1931, Lohse also resigned from his position as DVP party chairman.

Private

Lohse was born with Margarethe von Schaefer (* 1881) married, her father ran a wine shop in Oldenburg. The marriage remained childless.

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personal data
SURNAME Lohse, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lohse, Friedrich Christian Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (DVP)
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Hude (Oldenburg)
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1931
Place of death Oldenburg (Oldb)