Friedrich von Braun

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Friedrich Edler von Braun

Friedrich Edler von Braun (born April 18, 1863 in Nuremberg , † May 9, 1923 in Munich ) was a German politician ( DNVP ).

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Handwritten signature in the book An Deutschlands Jugend by Walther von Rathenau

Braun came from a Bavarian civil servant family. His grandfather, Karl Johann Heinrich Ernst von Braun (1788–1863), Minister and President of the Chamber of Saxony-Altenburg, was ennobled in 1808 and since then has had the nobility title “Edler von” in his name.

Friedrich Edler von Braun was born in 1863 as the son of the judge Theodor Edler von Braun , who was temporarily president of the Senate at the Higher Regional Court. From 1873 to 1881 he attended high schools in Bayreuth and Augsburg. He later studied law and political science in Erlangen, Berlin and Munich. During his studies in Erlangen he was a member of the Bubenreuther fraternity from 1881 . In 1885 he entered the Bavarian administrative service. After he passed the second state examination in law in 1889, he performed his military service in the 1st Heavy Rider Regiment "Prince Karl of Bavaria" of the Bavarian Army in Munich. He was later promoted to major in the reserve .

In 1890 Braun became an assessor in the district office in Neustadt an der Waldnaab . Then he was from 1891 to 1895 assessor in the Ministry of Culture. From 1895 to 1897 he worked as a government assessor in Würzburg . In 1896 he married. In 1898 Braun took over the management of the district office in Lichtenfels for three years as a district official. In 1901, at Braun's instigation, basket-making cooperatives were set up in sixteen villages in this district, the task of which was to buy materials and tools for their members.

In 1901 to 1908 he served as Councilor in Augsburg operates. 1908 followed the appointment to the upper government council. A year later he was appointed to the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior as an agricultural officer, and in 1912 he took over as ministerial director.

After the outbreak of World War I , Braun was commissioned to organize the food industry in Bavaria in 1914. In May 1916 he was appointed ministerial director to the war food office in Berlin, where he initially served as deputy head. At the same time he was the Bavarian Minister to the Reichsrat from 1916 to 1919. In the fall of 1917 he was promoted to Undersecretary in the War Food Office, a position he was to hold until August 1919. After the war, Braun took part in the armistice negotiations in Spa as an expert on food issues and the merchant fleet .

The following year he joined the DNVP. In the Reichstag elections of June 1920 he was a candidate for the constituency of the DNVP 27 (Upper Bavaria Swabia) in the Reichstag voted, where he remained until his death in May 1923rd

In the early years of the Weimar Republic, Braun was also President of the Provisional Reich Economic Council , member of the Reich Association of German Industry and executive board member of the Reich Committee of German Agriculture. He also wrote economic and economic policy treatises in brochures and daily newspapers and he was the founder and editor of the agricultural yearbook for Bavaria. He also held the title of Bavarian State Councilor and Privy Councilor .

Fonts

  • The Bavarian law on the destruction of goods of August 13, 1910 , 1910.
  • Can Germany be defeated by hunger? , Munich 1914.
  • Reintroduction of the gold standard , 1920.

literature

  • Deutsche Biographie, Jahrbuch 5 (1923), pp. 43-48.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , pp. 128-129.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Kosch, Eugen Kuri: Biographisches Staatshandbuch. Lexicon of politics, press and journalism. 1963, p. 153.
personal data
SURNAME Braun, Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Braun, Friedrich Edler of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DNVP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1923
Place of death Munich