Georg Zöphel

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Georg Zöphel

Karl Georg Zöphel (born October 6, 1869 in Reichenbach im Vogtland , † April 13, 1953 in Munich ) was a German politician ( National Liberal Party , DDP ) and longstanding President of Creditreform .

family

Zöphel's father was the Reichenbach merchant Albert Zöphel. His mother Katharina Pauline Schleber (1850–1928) was a niece of the founder of the dye works and finishing company Georg Schleber AG in Reichenbach. His younger brother Arno died of typhus at the age of thirteen .

He was married to his cousin Léonie Schleber (* 1876) since 1899. From this marriage three sons and one daughter were born.

Life and work

After graduating from the König-Albert-Gymnasium in Leipzig , Zöphel, who was Protestant-Lutheran , studied law in Leipzig , Munich and Freiburg im Breisgau from 1888 to 1892 . In 1892 he became a doctor of law doctorate . He worked as general counsel for various economic associations and next settled in 1898 as a lawyer in Leipzig down. In 1900 he became President of the Association of Creditreform Associations in Schkeuditz and held this office until he was forced to resign by the National Socialists in 1936.

After the Second World War he worked again for Creditreform and founded “Creditreform Zentralverwaltung eV” on August 31, 1947 in Neuss as the basis for the association's relocation to West Germany.

Party member and MP

In the empire Zöphel belonged to the National Liberal Party . Zöphel was a member of the state parliament in the Kingdom of Saxony from 1907 to 1918 . In contrast to the majority of his party friends, he did not participate in the founding of the DVP in 1918 , but went to the left-wing liberal DDP . In 1919/20 he was a member of the Weimar National Assembly . In contrast to the majority of the DDP MPs, he voted there on June 22, 1919 to sign the Versailles Peace Treaty .

“It was said that he put forward a number of amendments to the Weimar Constitution that only referred to punctuation marks, (...) In addition, Zöphel did not speak as a speaker. (...) So it was explained that Dr. Zöphel from the Democratic Party, (...), was not reappointed as a seat applicant. The Democrats drew the Leipzig history professor Dr. phil. Walter Götz , (...), before. Dr. Zöphel very bad. Shortly before the voting day ( May 4, 1924 ) he converted to the German People's Party and addressed the electorate in the Leipziger Neuesten Nachrichten with the request that Dr. Walter Götz, but to vote for the seat applicant of the German People's Party. The Democratic Party marked Zöphel's request as the “ Parthian arrow ”. (...). Despite the Zöphel Parthian Arrow, Dr. Walter Götz elected. The German People's Party did not approach Zöphel for a candidacy in the period that followed. "

- Rudolf Mothes : Memoirs of a Leipzig lawyer

Fonts

  • The constitution of the German Reich of August 11, 1919. Briefly explained and provided with critical information. Späth & Linde , Berlin 1920.

literature

  • Bureau des Reichstag (ed.): Handbook of the constituent German national assembly Weimar 1919. Biographical notes and pictures . Sittemfeld, Berlin 1919, p. 313.
  • Elvira Döscher, Wolfgang Schröder : Saxon parliamentarians 1869–1918. The deputies of the Second Chamber of the Kingdom of Saxony in the mirror of historical photographs. A biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5236-6 , pp. 494-495.
  • Herrmann AL Degener : Who is it. Lexicon of contemporaries, containing biographies and bibliographies. 10th edition. Degener, Leipzig 1935, p. 345.
  • Paul Schleber: Chronicle of the Georg Schleber company and a list of the Schleber family members and their descendants . Private printing, Reichenbach / Vogtl. 1930.
  • Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 , p. 363.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudolf Mothes: Memoirs of a Leipzig lawyer, Part C, pp. 25f., Archives of the City of Leipzig, quoted. from the website of Klaus Schmiedel, PDF , accessed on December 5, 2010.

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personal data
SURNAME Zöphel, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zöphel, Karl Georg (fuller name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (National Liberal Party, DDP)
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenbach in Vogtland
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1953
Place of death Munich