Jakob Diel

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Candidate poster Jakob Diels for the 1953 federal election

Jakob Diel , also Jacob (* December 8, 1886 at Layen Castle ; † December 26, 1969 in Bingen am Rhein ) was a German landowner and politician ( center , later CDU ).

Life and work

After primary school at home and high school at boarding school in Hanover , Diel completed an agricultural training and worked on a vineyard. During the First World War he was a soldier and "officer's representative" and received the Iron Cross, 2nd class. After the First World War he became district chairman of the Koblenz farmers 'association and later vice-president of the Trier farmers' association. He managed the Burg Layen winery , which his great-grandfather Johann Peter Diel had acquired in 1802 and which is still owned by the family today under the name Weingut Schlossgut Diel . In 1927, Diel was a co-founder of the Trollbachtal vine building cooperative, of which he also became chairman. He was an honorary member of KAV Suevia Berlin in the CV in recognition of his commitment to the right of student associations to wear colors. He was arrested three times during the National Socialist era .

Diel regularly wrote leading articles for the right-wing extremist German soldiers newspaper and national newspaper .

Political party

Diel belonged to the center before 1933 and participated in the founding of the CDU in Rhineland-Palatinate in 1945 . He was a member of the CDU regional executive committee and chairman of the agricultural committee of the CDU Rhineland-Palatinate.

MP

Diel was a member of the district council from 1919 to 1921. From 1921 to 1933 he was a member of the state parliament in Prussia for the Center Party.

In 1946 Diel was a member of the Advisory State Assembly and from 1947 to 1957 a member of the State Parliament in Rhineland-Palatinate, where he held the office of President in 1947/48. He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1957 to 1961. In addition to agricultural policy , he campaigned in the Bundestag in particular for the construction of the federal motorway 61 . In 1949 he was a member of the first, 1954 of the second and 1959 of the third Federal Assembly .

In addition, he was state chairman of the German Saarbund, from 1919 to 1933 district chairman and vice-president of the Trier farmers 'association and board member of the United German farmers' associations Jakob Diel

In 1958 he agitated in a pamphlet against the federal compensation legislation with the favorite cliché of the German people's soul, the Jews and the German money , and distributed this among the members of the Bundestag. Der Spiegel reported about his criticism of the compensation practice. With the help of the chief of the Rhineland-Palatinate criminal police, Georg Heuser , he obtained files from clients of the reparation committee chairman Otto Heinrich Greve and quoted them.

Honors

Diel was awarded the title of economic council for his services to viticulture . A street in the municipality of Rümmelsheim is named after him. In 1963 he received the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class.

literature

  • The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): The representatives of the free people: The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015 , 2016, ISBN 3-658-04751-8 , pp. 143–144 .

Individual evidence

  1. Manfred Jenke : Conspiracy from the right? A report on right-wing radicalism in Germany after 1945. Colloquium, Berlin 1961, p. 348.
  2. ^ Christian Pross: reparation: the guerrilla war against the victims , Frankfurt am Main: Athenaeum 1988 ISBN 3-610-08502-9 , p. 112f