Johannes Bell

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Johannes Bell (1908)

Johannes (Hans) Bell (born September 23, 1868 in Essen , † October 21, 1949 in Würgassen ) was a German politician ( center ) and lawyer .

Life

Johannes (occasionally also Hans ) Bell was the son of the senior geometer Josef Bell and Josefine geb. Tax. In 1896 Johannes Bell married Trude geb. Nuning. Bell attended high school in Essen, Dortmund and Minden . From 1886 to 1889 he studied law and political science in Tübingen , Leipzig and Bonn . During his studies he became a member of the Catholic student associations AV Guestfalia Tübingen , KDStV Burgundia (Leipzig) and KDStV Bavaria Bonn in the CV . In 1889 he became a trainee lawyer in Werden, Essen and Hamm and in the same year became a Dr. jur. utr. PhD. In 1893 Bell was a brief adjudicator until he settled as a lawyer in January 1894, and from 1900 also as a notary, at the Essen Regional Court. He was a leading member of the Center Party. He was a board member of the Reichstag parliamentary group and board member of the Rhenish Center Party.

Bell was a city councilor in Essen from 1900 to 1919 and was elected to the Prussian House of Representatives in 1908 for the constituency of Düsseldorf 13 (Essen city district) . From 1919 to 1921 Bell was a member of the Prussian state assembly . He sat in the Reichstag from 1912 to 1933 and was its vice-president from May 1920 to October 1926. From 1912 to 1918 Bell represented constituency Düsseldorf 7 (Moers-Rees) in the Reichstag, from 1924 to 1933 constituency 23 Düsseldorf. In between he was elected in constituency 26 Düsseldorf for the legislative period from 1920 to 1924. From 1919 to 1920 he was a member of the German National Assembly in Weimar. The already mentioned constituency 23 Düsseldorf elected him there.

As deputy chairman of the third committee of inquiry (violations of international law) of the Reichstag, Bell was the editor of the report on international law in the World War (1914–1918) (5 volumes).

After the National Socialists came to power , he remained a member of the Reichstag until November 1933.

minister

Bell served as Reich Colonial Minister from February 13, 1919 and became Reich Minister of Transport on June 21, 1919 . During his term of office until April 30, 1920, the nationalization of the German railway companies fell - the end of a development which until 1918 had essentially been driven by the Prussian minister Paul von Breitenbach . From May 1926 to January 1927 he was briefly Minister of Justice under Reich Chancellor Wilhelm Marx .

Johannes Bell signed the Versailles Treaty on behalf of the German Reich, together with Foreign Minister Hermann Müller (SPD) . The parties of the political right then put him under considerable pressure in the following years.

Works

  • Reconstruction of the German merchant fleet. 1917.
  • Economic and medium-sized questions for the war and transition period. 1918.
  • People's state and state people. 1928.
  • Criminal law reform. Collection of articles. 1930.
  • German and Austrian criminal law reform. 1936.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 . Issue 2. Berlin: Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1913, p. 94 (Statistics of the German Reich, Volume 250)

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SURNAME Bell, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bell, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (center), MdR and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1949
Place of death Würgassen