Johann Baptist Rauch

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Johann Baptist Rauch , with the common nickname Hans Rauch (born December 18, 1885 in Amberg , Upper Palatinate ; † August 2, 1963 in Heiden AR , Switzerland ) was a qualified farmer, German politician (center, BVP), member of the Bavarian state parliament and university professor. Rauch is primarily known as the initiator of the “ Reinheitsgebot ” marketing campaign .

Life

Rauch attended the elementary school as well as a secondary school in his native Amberg. He then continued his education at the industrial school in Nuremberg and at the Academy of Agriculture Weihenstephan and then studied natural science, agriculture and economics in Munich, Jena and at the Technical University of Munich .

In 1906/07 he took several study trips abroad. In 1907 he became secretary of the central cooperative of Christian farmers' associations . He then worked as a hiking teacher at the agricultural winter schools in Weltenburg , Plankstetten, Cham and Mühldorf am Inn . From 1910 to 1914 he was a district fishing expert and district hiking instructor for the government in Upper Franconia and an expert at the Munich food agency .

1914–1916 he took part in the First World War; then he was employed as an expert at the army catering authority of the Prussian and Bavarian war ministries. In 1917 he became head of the bookkeeping department and teacher for agricultural accounting, commercial and business studies as well as agricultural consultant at the Weihenstephan University of Agriculture and Brewery .

On March 7, 1917, he was appointed to the Chamber of Deputies , where on March 4, 1918 he recorded the first documented mention of the word “Reinheitsgebot” in Bavaria. On July 11, 1918, he was appointed royal Bavarian professor without having even received a doctorate beforehand.

In 1921 Rauch was appointed general consultant for the accounting and auditing service of the Reich Finance Administration and on October 1, 1921, he was appointed Ministerialrat . On November 9, 1922, he received a mandate for the Bavarian state parliament , which was renewed in the subsequent elections until 1933. From December 1923, Rauch worked at the state tax office in Munich .

In 1933, Rauch was temporarily demoted to the higher government council. Registered as an SA member from 1933 to 1936 , Rauch is said to have been a "central figure" in the Bavarian Catholic resistance , according to the administrative manual of the Bavarian State Library . In June 1939, was smoke in SD - Report "capture leading men of the system time (Denominational parties)" recorded and stood like other former old town and the BVP-politician under constant surveillance.

From 1939 he was employed again as a ministerial advisor at the Reichsfinanzhof in Munich. In 1941 he was appointed Finance President and Head of Department II (Taxes) of the Oberfinanzpräsident Munich and was entrusted with the management of the Oberfinanzpräsident Nürnberg from July 1944 until the end of the war. In May 1945 he was temporarily appointed President of the regional financial district of Southern Bavaria by the new state government, but had to give up this position in June 1945 due to illness. From 1948 he was state trustee for the recording of the former Reich nutritional assets in Bavaria, later then general representative of the ducal administration in Tegernsee.

Honors

Rauch received the Bavarian Order of Merit .

Fonts

  • What does the farmer and trader need to know about the law on the war tax on asset growth ?: Easy to understand presentation of the tax law - specially prepared for farmers and traders. Self-published by the Weihenstephan bookstore in 1920.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birgit Speckle: Dispute about beer in Bavaria: moral concepts about purity, community and tradition. (= Munich University Writings; = Munich Contributions to Folklore. Volume 27). Waxmann Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-89325-919-8 , pp. 9-10, 82-84.
personal data
SURNAME Rauch, Johann Baptist
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rauch, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (center, BVP), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Amberg , Upper Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH 2nd August 1963
Place of death Heiden AR , Switzerland