Gotthilf Hitzler

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Ernst Gotthilf Hitzler (born February 14, 1882 in Kirchberg an der Murr , † September 23, 1933 in Heidelberg ) was a German editor , ministerial official and politician ( SPD ). 1919–1920 he was a member of the constitutional state assembly for Württemberg for the SPD .

Life

Hitzler's father Georg Melchior Hitzler (1852–1916) was a farrier in Kirchberg and later worked as a machinist. His marriage to Gotthilf Hitzler's mother Pauline geb. Eßlinger (1855-1894) had five children, a second marriage another four children. A total of four of Gotthilf Hitzler's eight siblings and half-siblings died early. His brother Wilhelm Friedrich Hitzler (1884–1968) was also an SPD candidate in 1919.

The family moved to Stuttgart - Ostheim in 1898 . After attending elementary school , Hitzler did an apprenticeship as a printer . In 1904 he was a board member of the SPD in Stuttgart.

He then went to Mainz and was from 1907-1908 editor of the SPD daily newspaper Volkszeitung as well as chairman of the local SPD and the SPD education committee. From February 1908 to January 1917 he was editor of the newly founded social democratic newspaper Neckar-Echo in Heilbronn , 1908-1910 chairman of the SPD in Heilbronn and 1910-1912 chairman of the party's education committee there. In 1911 he was elected to the Heilbronn municipal council for the SPD , of which he was a member until his departure from Heilbronn in February 1917. In the same month he became managing director of the Südwestdeutscher Kanalverein , based in Stuttgart, which worked out plans for a canalization of the Neckar as part of a canal connection between the Rhine and the Danube .

With the November Revolution in November 1918, he first became the private secretary of the Württemberg State President Wilhelm Blos , and that same month and until March 1919, Undersecretary and Head of the Transport Department in the Württemberg Foreign Ministry. On July 16, 1919, he became the representative of the President (within the meaning of Section 38 of the Württemberg Constitution) to advise the administration of the transport authorities. In autumn 1919 he was Blos' favorite for the post of State Minister in the Württemberg Ministry of the Interior, which he did not receive because of resistance within the SPD; Hitzler were said to have alcohol problems .

In the election for the constituent state assembly for Württemberg in January 1919, Hitzler ran for place 56 on the SPD state list and missed direct entry. On November 18, 1919, he replaced Wilhelm Schifferdecker , who had resigned from his mandate. He was a member of the state assembly until 1920.

From 1923 to 1925 Hitzler was Ministerialdirektor in the railway department of the Reich Ministry of Transport in Berlin and was then put into temporary retirement . He lived in Berlin, from September 1930 in Heidelberg . From 1931 he was seriously ill and for some time was placed in a psychiatric clinic ; he died in September 1933.

Hitzler was a Protestant denomination , later without a denomination (" diss. ") His first marriage was from 1904 to Rosine Christine Kurz (* 1883), and from 1918 to Mathilde Danner (1888–1961). Two children each resulted from both marriages.

literature

  • Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 365 .

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SURNAME Hitzler, Gotthilf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hitzler, Ernst Gotthilf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German editor, ministerial official and politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchberg on the Murr
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1933
Place of death Heidelberg