Georges Weill

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Georges Weill (1933)

Georges Weill (also Georg Weill ; born September 17, 1882 in Strasbourg ; † January 10, 1970 in Paris ) was a German and French editor and politician ( SPD , LPN ). He was a member of the German Reichstag and the French National Assembly .

Life

Weill was born in Strasbourg in 1882 as the son of the businessman Elias Weill and his wife Melanie Weill, née Dreyfus. He came from a bilingual, middle-class Jewish - Alsatian family. He attended the Lyceum in Strasbourg, the Faculté des Lettres ( Sorbonne ) in Paris, the law and political science faculty of the University of Strasbourg and received his doctorate in 1904 as a doctor of political science in Strasbourg with Georg Friedrich Knapp . From 1900 to 1901 he was editor of the magazine Le Mouvement Socialiste in Paris, from 1902 to 1904 he was a scientific assistant at the Chamber of Commerce in Strasbourg, 1905 editor of the Free Press in Strasbourg, from 1906 to 1910 editor of the Franconian Daily Mail in Nuremberg and from 1910 a writer in Strasbourg. He published studies in magazines, brochures, 1905: Situation of the canal boatmen in Alsace-Lorraine , 1909: Labor movement in France . He was fined several times for “ press offenses ” and also sentenced to two prison terms.

He represented positions of revisionism in the SPD .

From 1912 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen 14 ( Metz ) and the SPD . He won the constituency against the previous mandate holder, the Lorraine protester Albert Grégoire , in the runoff election with the support of the Liberals.

When war broke out in 1914, he joined the French army as an interpreter and publicly declared that he would side with France. Early in 1915 deprived him of the Ministry of Alsace-Lorraine to the nationality of the Empire State Alsace-Lorraine and the Reichstag was on January 3, 1915 stated that Weill's mandate had expired, since the latter had lost his eligibility by the Director. Due to the events of the war and the inability of the parties to agree on a common candidate, a replacement election could not be held in the constituency until the end of the war.

After the war he lived in Paris and never returned to Lorraine. From 1924 to 1928 and from 1932 to 1936 he was a member of the French National Assembly. In 1928 he was defeated by the candidate Jean-Pierre Mourer in a runoff election . He was vice-president of the Ligue républicaine nationale founded by Alexandre Millerand .

During the Second World War he lived in Algiers .

literature

  • Ernest Hamburger: Jews in Public Life in Germany: Members of the Government, Officials and Parliamentarians in the Monarchical Era 1848-1918, Volume 19 of the series of scientific papers, series of scientific papers, 1968, ISBN 3-16-829292-3 , pp. 515-518 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : Georges Weill  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 . Issue 2. Berlin: Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1913, p. 103 (Statistics of the German Reich, vol. 250)
  2. ^ Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890-1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 15). Half volume 2, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 1548-1555.
  3. ^ Biography in Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : Life course research between biographical lexicographics and collective biographies. In: Historical Social Research. Vol. 9, 1984, urn : nbn: de: 0168-ssoar-35018 , p. 46.
  4. ↑ cf. the French language Wikipedia: Ligue républicaine nationale .
personal data
SURNAME Weill, Georges
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weill, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German editor and politician (SPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1970
Place of death Paris