Gerhart Bollert

Gerhart Bollert as a member of the Reichstag in 1912

Gerhart Bollert (born November 8, 1870 in Pritzwalk ; † August 7, 1947 in Rottach ) was a lawyer, art collector and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Bollert attended grammar school in Frankfurt an der Oder from 1876 to 1888 and then the universities of Tübingen , Breslau and Berlin . In 1891 he became a trainee lawyer, in 1895 a court assessor and in April 1896 he was entered on the list of lawyers at the Berlin Regional Court. From 1906 he was a notary and from 1907 a member of the district committee of the city of Berlin.

From 1912 to 1918 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of the Frankfurt administrative region 4 Frankfurt (Oder) , Lebus and the National Liberal Party . Between 1919 and 1921 he was a member of the Prussian Constituent Assembly for the DDP .

In the Third Reich he continued to represent his Jewish clients and helped several of them emigrate. On May 1, 1944, he was banned from further legal practice in Berlin. After it was bombed out in Berlin in 1943, he moved to Bavaria. Another motivation was to protect his former Jewish wife from persecution. He died in Rottach in 1947, and his urn was later transferred to Berlin.

Between 1908 and 1939 he brought together an extensive collection of medieval art, which is now on permanent loan to the Bavarian National Museum in Munich.

Web links

• Gerhart Bollert in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Biography of Gerhart Bollert . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
• Biography in the Prignitz Lexicon ( Memento from October 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bioweil: Collective biography of the member of parliament of the Weimar Republic: Prussia 1918-1933 ( Memento from 1 March 2012 at the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ [1] .