Hans Gentner

Hans Johann Gentner (born January 26, 1877 in Pegnitz ; † August 24, 1953 there ) was a Bavarian social democratic politician.

Career

Gentner was born the son of a farmer. He attended elementary school and the advanced training school in Pegnitz and then completed an apprenticeship as an iron turner . From 1895 to 1899, his years of traveling took him through Germany. From 1904 on, he was a self-employed restaurateur and farmer in Pegnitz.

He was unionized as early as 1894 and joined the SPD in 1898 . In 1902 he was the first social democrat to be elected to the town council of Pegnitz. There he became a magistrate in 1908 . After the state elections on February 5, 1912, he entered the Chamber of Deputies of the Bavarian State Parliament in the Kulmbach constituency for the first time . At first he belonged to her until the end of the monarchy. Candidates for the Reichstag failed several times.

After the revolution and the proclamation of the Free State on November 7, 1918, Gentner was a member of the newly formed Provisional National Council . In the election on January 12, 1919, he was re-elected to the state parliament and, after its constitution, appointed to the state council in the state ministry for agriculture . In the state election in June 1920, which caused the SPD to lose a lot of votes, Gentner lost his seat in the state parliament. In the same year he took over the chairmanship of the Free Association of Farmers and Craftsmen.

On 7 December 1924, he was first elected mayor of Pegnitz and moved to the election in May 1928. in the Bavarian Landtag, which it to DC circuit belonged to the country in April 1933rd After the National Socialists came to power, he was deposed as mayor. He was arrested several times in the following years. In 1933 he was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp , in 1934 in protective custody in Bayreuth, in 1939 in protective custody in Fürth and in 1944 again in the Dachau concentration camp.

After the end of the Second World War, the US military government set him up as acting mayor of Pegnitz in 1945 until the local elections in 1946 . In addition, he was a member of the Upper Franconian District Assembly, the District Committee and the District Chamber of Farmers. From July to November 1946 he was a member of the state constituent assembly . In December 1946, Prime Minister Hans Ehard brought him into his cabinet as State Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture headed by Joseph Baumgartner .

From December 1946 he was a member of the presidency of the Bavarian Farmers' Association (BBV) and in December 1947 represented its interests in the newly formed Senate . He was a member of it until his death in August 1953. Gentner's son Fritz was also a member of the SPD state parliament in Bavaria.

Honors

• 1952: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Web links

• Hans Gentner in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
• Hans Gentner's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
• Hans Gentner's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Database Social Democratic Members of the Reichstag and Reichstag candidates 1898-1918 (BIOKAND)