Hugo Garnich

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Hugo Garnich (born May 6, 1874 in Arona (Piedmont) , † December 27, 1926 in Berlin ) was a German civil engineer , Prussian construction officer and right-wing liberal politician .

Life

He was born as the son of the businessman Hugo Garnich and his wife Sophie Garnich geb. Guts. After attending secondary school , studying at the Technical University of Charlottenburg , a legal clerkship and the final 2nd state examination , he initially worked as a government master builder ( assessor in public building management) at the Altona Railway Directorate and the Berlin Railway Directorate . Later he was a secret councilor and a member of the Reich Patent Office . During the First World War Garnich worked for the General Government for the occupied Belgian territories , most recently in the military rank of Rittmeister of the light cavalry . He was also section head of the war press office in Berlin.

Garnich was married to Charlotte Friedberg , the daughter of the national liberal politician Robert Friedberg . While Friedberg moved from the National Liberal Party (NLP) to the DDP after the November Revolution, Garnich was one of the co-founders of the DVP . The party assets of the NLP were transferred from Friedberg to the DVP via Garnich. Garnich and his wife became influential politicians of this party during the Weimar Republic .

Garnich was a member of the central party executive and from 1923 head of a party office for several Prussian provinces. Between 1919 and 1921 Garnich was a member of the constituent state assembly and then a member of the Prussian state parliament until his death . During this time he was also the third vice-president of parliament.

After undergoing gallstone surgery, Hugo Garnich died on the night of December 27, 1926 at the age of 52 in the St. Hedwig Hospital in Berlin. He was buried in the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Cemetery in Berlin-Westend . The grave has not been preserved.

literature

  • Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? Our contemporaries. IX. Edition, Verlag Herrmann Degener, Leipzig 1928, p. 463.
  • Barbara von Hindenburg: Biographical Handbook of the Members of the Prussian State Parliament, Part 1. Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-631-67652-3 , pp. 632-633.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The successor was Emil Hallensbach. Cf. Barbara von Hindenburg: Biographical Handbook of the Members of the Prussian State Parliament, Part 1. Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-631-67652-3 , pp. 632-633.
  2. ↑ Vice President Garnich † . In: Vossische Zeitung of December 27, 1926, evening edition, p. 2.
  3. ↑ Landtag MP Garnich † . In Berliner Tageblatt of December 27, 1926, evening edition, p. 3.
  4. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 473.
personal data
SURNAME Garnich, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer, Prussian construction officer and politician (DVP), Member of the State Parliament
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Arona (Piedmont)
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1926
Place of death Berlin