Hermann Kreth

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Hermann Kreth

Hermann Karl Ernst Kreth (born February 16, 1860 in Althof-Insterburg, Insterburg district , † September 19, 1932 in Berlin ) was a German administrative lawyer and economic functionary. As a member of the German Conservative Party, he sat in the Reichstag from 1903 to 1918.

Life

Kreth came from a long-established farming family in Göritten , East Prussia . He studied law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . He then served as a one-year volunteer in the Litthau Uhlan Regiment No. 12 , in which he later became captain of the reserve . After the exams, he moved from the administration of justice to the internal administration of the Kingdom of Prussia . In 1894 he became district administrator of the Gumbinnen district . He was one of the canal rebels, a group of conservative Prussian politicians and officials who spoke out against the construction of the Mittelland Canal in 1899 and thus triggered a political crisis. Kreth has therefore been replaced and as Councilor for the government in Potsdam displaced; he retired that same year at the age of 39. He joined the Association of German Alcohol Manufacturers as a managing board member and was director of the Association of Rural Cooperatives in Brandenburg from 1903 and 1909 . In addition, Kreth was a functionary of the Federation of Farmers (BdL) , an interest organization for agriculture in the German Empire . In 1909 he was appointed director of the Spiritus headquarters in Wilmersdorf .

Kreth began his political career after his early retirement. As a representative of the German Conservative Party , he was elected to the Prussian House of Representatives in a by-election on February 2, 1899 , from which he left in January 1900. From 1904 to 1918 he was again a member of the House of Representatives. There he was temporarily also vice chairman of the main association of the German Conservatives. In the 11th, 12th and 13th electoral periods - from 1903 to 1918 - he represented the Reichstag constituency of Gumbinnen 4 in the German Reichstag. In the Weimar Republic he was chairman of the Association of Tax and Economic Reformers from 1921 and 1928 . In this function he sat on the tax committee of the Reich Association of German Industry (RDI) , on the advisory board of the Reich Monopoly Administration for spirits and on several supervisory boards . From 1927 to 1930 he was President of the Berlin National Club from 1919 .

When his son and corps brother Kurt Kreth, a manor owner in Pomerania , was murdered by communists in 1932 , the seriously ill Kreth put an end to his life.

Corps student

Kreth in the general committee of the VAC
Kreth's Corps when the rectorate changes in Berlin (1924)

Hermann Kreth became a member of the Corps Teutonia Göttingen in 1878 with his brother Hans Kreth . He clipped the first batch four times . In a pistol duel on July 21, 1881 in Göttingen , he wounded his opponent Stoepel, the senior of the Corps Bremensia Göttingen . When he succumbed to the injuries on July 29th, the Georg August University banned Kreth's corps "for all time". Teutonia suspended on August 8th. It was rebuilt under the name Borussia in the summer semester of 1881. After serving his imprisonment in a fortress , Kreth went to Berlin in 1882. He became active at Teutonia Berlin and here, too, clung to the first batch twice.

“Borussia Göttingen” existed until May 1885. It was reconstituted in 1905/06 with the help of the uncovered connection Mündenia . After the Prussian Ministry of Culture lifted the Teutonia ban of 1881 in November 1914, the Corps was again allowed to call itself Teutonia at the end of 1914. Both corps later awarded Kreth honorary membership.

In the AHSC in Berlin , which provided the entire committee of the VAC from 1920 to 1924 , he took over the chairmanship from 1922 to 1925. When an amendment to the Criminal Code was also supposed to make the determination of the censorship a criminal offense, he and Carl Heyer organized the defense of the weapons student associations in the "Committee of Ten" of the KSCV and in a special committee of the General German Arms Ring . In 1930 he resigned from the chairmanship of the Committee of Ten and from his position as commissioner in matters of the honorary protection agreement with the officers' associations.

“In September, after severe physical and mental suffering, the chairman of the ADW special committee, a senior government councilor, died. D. Kreth. He succeeded his youngest son, who, as SA leader, was in the middle of the political struggle and was murdered by communists. Kreth could no longer get over this loss.
In Hermann Kreth, German weapons students lost one of their most outstanding figures. Only the initiated know to what extent Kreth has been active in averting dangers to the weapons students in recent years. His extensive knowledge of personalities and political forces made him uniquely suited to carry out such a difficult task as that of the special committee in a purposeful and happy manner. The entire weapon students owed him indelible thanks for this [...] This awe-inspiring Old Prussian, who was firmly rooted in conservative views, had more understanding for the youth than many who were years younger. His death is not only to be mourned for reasons of weapons students, but also for political reasons. "

- Burschenschaftliche Blätter 47/1 (October 1932), p. 20

Honors

See also

literature

  • Kreth, Hermann , in: Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft , Volume 1: A – K. Berlin 1930, p. 1016.
  • Fritz Nachreiner: Memory of Hermann Kreth . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corps Student History Research, Vol. 1 (1956), pp. 112-114.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermann Kreth (corpsarchive.de)
  2. ↑ Bernhard Mann (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918. Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 231 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3); for the election results see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 114-119.
  3. ^ 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 1, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 46-48.
  4. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 16/60; 86/147
  5. ^ Ms. Nachreiner (1956)
  6. ↑ Deutsche Corps-Zeitung 47, p. 25.
predecessor Office successor
Paul von Koerner VAC chairman
1922–1924 		Werner Meissner
personal data
SURNAME Kreth, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kreth, Hermann Karl Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, economic functionary and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Althof-Insterburg, Insterburg district
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1932
Place of death Berlin