Hermann Veit
Hermann Veit (born April 13, 1897 in Karlsruhe ; † March 15, 1973 ibid) was a German lawyer and politician ( SPD ).
Life and work
After graduating from high school in Karlsruhe, Veit was drafted into the military and took part in the First World War as a soldier until 1918 . He studied law at the universities of Heidelberg and Leipzig from 1919 to 1921 and established himself as a lawyer in Karlsruhe in 1926 . In 1944/45 he was drafted into the industry.
Political party
Veit, who had belonged to the SPD before 1933, participated in the re-establishment of the party in Karlsruhe in 1945. In 1948 he was appointed to the economic policy committee of the entire party. He was part of the program commission for the Godesberg program .
MP
In 1946, Veit was a member of the provisional parliament and the state constituent assembly in Württemberg-Baden . In November 1946 he was elected as a member of the state parliament of Württemberg-Baden , where he represented constituency 2 (Karlsruhe). On November 17, 1949, he resigned from the state parliament (successor was Gustav Heller ). In 1947 Veit was a member of the Bizone Economic Council .
From 1949 to December 10, 1953, he was a directly elected candidate for the Karlsruhe-Stadt constituency and a member of the German Bundestag . In the Bundestag he held the post of Deputy Chairman of the Economic Policy Committee during the first legislative period .
In the state elections in November 1950 , Veit was re-elected to the state parliament of Württemberg-Baden via the SPD state list. He resigned his seat on January 12, 1951 (successor was Hermann Knorr ). From 1956 until his death, Veit was again a member of the state parliament in the newly formed state of Baden-Württemberg . In the state parliament he represented constituency 2 (Karlsruhe, from 1964 Karlsruhe city).
Public offices
In 1945 Veit became mayor of his hometown Karlsruhe. On December 16, 1946, under the liberal Prime Minister Reinhold Maier, he became Minister of Economics and Deputy Prime Minister of Württemberg-Baden. After the state of Baden-Württemberg was founded in 1952, he also held these offices in the new south-west state until 1960 under the Prime Ministers Reinhold Maier , Gebhard Müller and Kurt Georg Kiesinger .
Honors
Veit was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Karlsruhe and an honorary senator from the University of Stuttgart. On May 18, 1965, the city of Karlsruhe granted him honorary citizenship . A street in Karlsruhe has been named after him since 1978.
literature
- Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 894.
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Alex Möller (1952–1961) & nbsp; | Walter Krause and Hermann Veit (1961–1964) | Walter Krause (1964–1966) | Walter Hirrlinger (1966–1968) | Heinz Bühringer (1968–1972) | Walter Krause (1972–1973) | Rudolf Schieler (1973–1976) | Erhard Eppler (1976–1980) | Ulrich Lang (1980–1988) | Dieter Spöri (1988–1992) | Ulrich Maurer (1992–2001) | Wolfgang Drexler (2001-2006) | Ute Vogt (2006–2008) | Claus Schmiedel (2008–2016) | Andreas Stoch (since 2016)
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Josef Heinrich |
Lord Mayor of Karlsruhe 1945–1946 |
Friedrich Töpper |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Veit, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag, Minister of the State of Baden-Württemberg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 13, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlsruhe |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 15, 1973 |
| Place of death | Karlsruhe |