Heinrich von und zu Bodman

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Johann Heinrich Freiherr von und zu Bodman (born January 21, 1851 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; †  April 26, 1929 in Karlsruhe ) was a lawyer and politician from Baden .

Life

Bodman attended the humanistic Bertholdgymnasium in Freiburg from 1861 to 1869 and, after graduating from high school, studied medicine at the university in his hometown from 1869 to 1870. He became a member of the Teutonia fraternity . In order to be able to participate as a volunteer in the war against France , he dropped out of his first studies. From 1871 to 1873 he studied law in Freiburg , Berlin and Heidelberg University . In Berlin he also became a member of the Old Berlin Burschenschaft . As early as 1873 he passed his first state examination in law and then worked as a legal intern at the local court in Waldshut , among others . In 1876 he passed the second state examination in law and entered the Baden civil service as a secretary in the Ministry of the Interior. After working in various Baden authorities, he was at the Reich Insurance Office in Berlin from 1888 to 1891 and in 1891 was Ministerialrat in the Baden Ministry of the Interior in Karlsruhe . From 1894 to 1899 he was senior bailiff and board member of the Karlsruhe district office and then state commissioner in Constance . From 1904 to 1906 he was seen again in Berlin as Ministerial Director and Deputy Plenipotentiary of Baden at the Federal Council, before he then became director of the Karlsruhe Water and Road Construction Office.

From April 22, 1907, Bodman was Minister of the Interior of Baden and from December 22, 1917 until the end of the monarchy in Baden, he was also Minister of State. H. Chairman of the Baden State Government (Prime Minister). On November 13, 1918, Minister of State Bodman, who had been in temporary retirement for three days, took part with the President of the Provisional People's Government, Geiss, in the negotiations on Grand Duke Frederick II of Baden's resignation. After the "Free People's Republic of Baden" was proclaimed on November 14th, Bodman withdrew into private life and lived in Freiburg until his death.

He was the brother-in-law of the former Minister of State (Chairman of the Baden State Government = Prime Minister) Wilhelm Nokk , who was married to his sister Klara von und zu Bodman (1842–62) for the first time in 1861.

politics

As a candidate for the National Liberal Party , Bodman applied in vain in the Catholic constituency of Überlingen-Konstanz in 1903 for a seat in the Reichstag that the representative of the center won. In the Baden parliament, the so-called large bloc (1909-13 / 14 ) directed against the center (the strongest party since 1905 ) formed of national liberals , liberals , democrats and moderate social democrats to support government policy, so that Bodman in his time as interior minister also around a endeavored to maintain a good relationship with the Social Democrats and repeatedly expressed understanding for their concerns. That is why he was sometimes insulted by conservative circles as a "red minister" . In 1909 his ministry published a memorandum on unemployment insurance , the progressive ideas of which failed because of the differently directed Reich policy. The focus of his policy as minister was the promotion of the food sector, agriculture, trade, industry and handicrafts. He also made the Upper Rhine navigable and built hydropower plants to supply the resulting electrical power grid.

family

Bodman came from a sideline of the Catholic Counts of Bodman on Lake Constance . This sideline had its seat on Lorettoberg in Freiburg. His father's name was Johann Heinrich Freiherr von Bodman (born March 24, 1809) and had the military rank of Colonel in the Baden Army , his mother's name was Elisabeth nee Shone (born March 21, 1811) from London. Bodman had a brother and three sisters:

Bodmans married Anna in 1884 (also Annie; * July 21, 1863; † 1906), a granddaughter of the piano manufacturer Heinrich Steinweg ( Steinway & Sons ) from New York. The marriage remained childless.

Honors

literature

  • Paul Strack:  Bodman, Johann Heinrich Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 360 ( digitized version ).
  • Gerhard Kaller, Johann Heinrich von und zu Bodman. in: Bernd Ottnad (Ed.): Badische Biographien . New series, Volume I, W. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 1982, pp. 68-70.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Heidelberg 1996, p. 109.
  • Wolfram Angerbauer (Red.): The heads of the upper offices, district offices and district offices in Baden-Württemberg from 1810 to 1972 . Published by the working group of the district archives at the Baden-Württemberg district assembly. Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8062-1213-9 , pp. 191 .
  • Bernd Breitkopf: The old districts and their heads of office. The emergence of the districts and offices in what is today the district of Karlsruhe. Biographies of the senior officials and district administrators from 1803 to 1997. Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 1997, ISBN 3-929366-48-7 , pp. 102-104.
  • Martin Furtwängler: Heinrich von Bodman and Karl von Weizsäcker. Government policy and strategies for action in the last year of the war, 1918, In: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte, Vol. 79 (2020), pp. 315-330.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Horst Grimm, Leo Besser-Walzel: Die Corporationen, Frankfurt am Main, 1986.
  2. ↑ http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz72302.html
personal data
SURNAME Bodman, Heinrich von und zu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bodman, Heinrich Freiherr von und zu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lawyer and politician in Baden
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1929
Place of death Karlsruhe