Hans Schmelzle

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Hans Schmelzle (born October 1, 1874 in Buch ; † March 7, 1955 in Munich ) was a German lawyer , civil servant and politician ( BVP ).

Life

Hans Schmelzle was born on October 1st, 1874 as the son of a farmer in Buch near Illertissen . After graduating from high school in Dillingen in 1894 , he studied classical philology, law and economics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Since the beginning of his studies he was a very active member of the Catholic student union K.St.V. Ottonia Munich in KV , where he has held positions on the board several times. Schmelzle was promoted to Dr. oec. publ. doctorate , passed the second state examination in law in 1901 and then entered the Bavarian civil service. From 1916 he was district administrator of Sonthofen . In addition, he worked in the Bavarian war food system and acted as a negotiator for a German-Austrian economic and customs union.

During the Weimar Republic , Schmelzle joined the Bavarian People's Party (BVP). In 1919 he rejected his appointment as Minister of State for Agriculture , whereupon Karl von Freyberg was sworn in as Minister of Agriculture in his place.

Schmelze had been government commissioner since 1919 and in the same year took over the management of the Bayerische Landwirtschaftsbank. In 1920 he joined the Bavarian Foreign Ministry as a ministerial advisor under Gustav Ritter von Kahr and was appointed to the state council a year later . In this role, he wrote the first two of a total of four government memoranda on imperial and constitutional reform , in which Bavaria called for federal principles for the relationship between the empire and the states. From 1931 until his retirement in 1939, he served as President of the Bavarian Administrative Court , and from 1933 also as an assessor at the State Court of Justice for the German Reich . Hans Schmelzle died on March 7, 1955 in Munich.

On June 28, 1927 Schmelzle was appointed Minister of State for Finance to the government of the Free State of Bavaria led by Prime Minister Heinrich Held . He resigned from this office on August 20, 1930 after the state parliament had previously rejected the introduction of the "slaughter tax" that he favored.

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  1. ↑ slaughter tax . Historical Lexicon of Bavaria, accessed on June 21, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Schmelzle, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, administrative officer and politician (BVP)
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH book
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1955
Place of death Munich