Heinrich Osel

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Heinrich Osel, member of the Bavarian state parliament

Heinrich Osel (born May 10, 1863 in Hallstadt , † February 21, 1919 in Munich ) was a German customs inspector and Bavarian politician of the center and the Bavarian People's Party (BVP). He was killed in a shooting in the Bavarian state parliament in 1919.

Life

After graduating from secondary school in Bamberg, Osel attended industrial school and the technical college in Munich. In 1883 he joined the customs service. He worked as a business journalist for various daily and weekly newspapers and published a number of specialist publications on customs and issues relating to the Bavarian economy.

In 1897 he was co-founder and then first secretary of the Upper Bavarian Christian Farmers 'Association, a conservative group of small and medium-sized farmers anchored in Catholicism and close to the Center Party , which competed with the more liberal Bavarian Farmers' Union and, one year after its founding, withdrew from the other administrative districts in the Bavarian Christian Farmers' Association nationwide. In 1904 Osel became the second director of the central cooperative of the farmers' association, which, in addition to its function as a lender and trading cooperative, also supported orphanages, clinics and educational institutions.

From 1903 to 1907 Osel was a member of the German Reichstag for the Center Party . He represented the constituency of Upper Franconia 4 (Kronach).

In parallel to his mandate in the Reichstag, from 1905 onwards, which was not unusual at the time, he was also a member of the Bavarian state parliament, the Chamber of Deputies , where he represented the constituency of Kronach. His political focus here was on financial and economic policy. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies for three legislative terms until the end of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1918.

After the end of the monarchy, he founded the Bavarian People's Party in November 1918 together with other center politicians from around the Christian farmers' association . In the election of January 12, 1919, he was elected for this in the constituency Kronach / Neila in the first state parliament .

In the course of the constituent session of the newly elected state parliament on February 21, 1919, the member of the Revolutionary Workers' Council Alois Lindner committed an assassination attempt on the Social Democratic Interior Minister Erhard Auer after the murder of Kurt Eisner became known . While Lindner shot his escape route and killed the Ministerial Advisor Paul Ritter von Jahreiß, who was present in the plenary hall, an unknown person fired from the state gallery into the plenary. Osel was fatally wounded. It is assumed that he was a random victim. He was buried in the Pasing cemetery.

Heinrich Osel was the father of the sculptor Hans Osel . In Munich- Pasing , Oselstrasse is named after him.

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Osel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Official Reichstag Handbook . 11th legislative period. tape 1903/08 . Berlin 1903, Biographical Notes on the Members of the Reichstag, p. 288 ( digitized version [accessed March 31, 2013]).
  2. ↑ Erwin Naimer: Osel, Heinrich, Member of Parliament. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 565 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ a b c Heinrich Osel in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
  4. ^ A b Oliver Braun: Bayerischer Christian Bauernverein, 1898-1933. In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, February 28, 2012, accessed on March 31, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Biography No. 15019, Osel, Heinrich. In: Critical online edition of the Nunciature reports by Eugenio Pacellis (1917–1929). December 20, 2011, accessed March 31, 2013 .
  6. ^ 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. 1056-1059.
  7. ^ David Clay Large: Hitler's Munich . The rise and fall of the capital of the movement. Beck, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-44195-5 , pp. 137 (American English: Where Ghosts Walked. Munich's Road to the Third Reich . Translated by Karl Heinz Siber).
  8. ↑ Grave of Heinrich Osel and Hans Osel at the Pasing cemetery (grave field MW Lage , picture )
  9. ↑ Hans Piontek: Hans Osel - his works shaped Munich's face. For the 100th birthday of the first DSLV honorary president . In: Münchner Merkur . August 30, 2007. Quoted from Deutscher Skilehrerverband (Ed.): SnowSport . No. 2 / 2007-08 . Wolfratshausen 2007, p. 17 ( skilehrerverband.de [PDF; 2.5 MB ; accessed on March 31, 2013]).
personal data
SURNAME Osel, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (center, BVP), MdR, MdL (Bavaria)
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Hallstadt
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1919
Place of death Munich