Hermann Klingspor

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Hermann Klingspor

Karl Gustav Rudolf Hermann Klingspor (born September 8, 1885 in Siegen ; † November 12, 1969 there ) was a German entrepreneur and politician ( DVP , DNVP , DKP , DKP-DRP , FDP ).

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Hermann Klingspor attended elementary schools in Siegen and Altenkirchen, then the higher city school in Altenkirchen and a grammar school in Neuwied am Rhein. After graduating from high school in 1905, he worked as a factory worker for a year. He then began political science at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , where he joined the Corps Rhenania Freiburg in 1906 . When he was inactive , he moved to the Hessian Ludwig University of Marburg and the Friedrich Wilhelms University of Berlin . He later studied paper at the Technical University of Darmstadt and the Technical University of Vienna . Before he worked as a paper manufacturer from 1912, he served as a one-year volunteer with the 3rd Badischer Dragoon Regiment "Prince Karl" No. 22 . He took part in the First World War from 1914 to 1918 and reached the rank of first lieutenant in the reserve .

After the First World War, Klingspor resumed its activities as a paper manufacturer (Jacob Oechelhaeuser Papierfabrik GmbH). From 1924 to 1928 he was a member of the Reichstag for two legislative terms as a member of the German People's Party (DVP) for constituency 18 (Westphalia-South) . He was also a deputy member of the Provincial Council of the City of Münster. The historian Abraham Ashkenasi describes Klingspor as a “typical traditional conservative national” for this period. In 1932 he moved from the DVP to the German National People's Party (DNVP), of which he was district chairman until the party was dissolved. During the Nazi era, Klingspor was awarded the 1st and 2nd Class War Merit Crosses.

After the end of the Nazi regime, Klingspor co-founded the German Conservative Party in Siegen in 1945 as the successor to the DNVP . As early as March 1946, the party merged with the German Construction Party (DAP), but initially retained its name. From 1946 to 1950 he held a leading position in the DKP and, after the merger in 1946, in the DKP-DRP , which was renamed in 1948, with interruptions - mainly due to a ban on political activity and speaking . When in 1950 the largest part of the DKP-DRP, mainly from Lower Saxony, merged with the NDP to form the German Reich Party , it continued to run the remainder of the DKP-DRP as national rights. In 1954 he joined the North Rhine-Westphalian state association of national rights to the Free Democratic Party (FDP). From 1959 to 1964 he was chairman of the Westphalia South District Association and thus a member of the FDP state executive in North Rhine-Westphalia. Klingspor was temporarily chairman of the Association of German Paper Manufacturers and the Employers' Association of the Westphalian paper-producing industry.

Honors

Incomplete list

  • Honorary Chairman of the FDP District Association Siegen (1966)
  • Honorary member of the Corps Rhenania Freiburg
  • Letter of honor from the city of Siegen
  • Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (1955)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Königliches Gymnasium connected with Realprogymnasium <Neuwied>: Annual report Easter 1905 , p. 27 .
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 35 , 740.
  3. ↑ Abraham Ashkenasi: Modern German Nationalism . 1976, p. 94.
  4. ^ Regional dictionary of persons on National Socialism in the old districts of Siegen and Wittgenstein, article Hermann Klingspor .
  5. ^ Regional dictionary of persons on National Socialism in the old districts of Siegen and Wittgenstein, article Hermann Klingspor .
  6. ↑ Daniela Forkmann and Michael Schlieben: The party chairman in the Federal Republic of Germany 1949-2005 , of 2005.
personal data
SURNAME Klingspor, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneurs and politicians (DVP, DKP, FDP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Wins
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1969
Place of death Wins