Johannes Leonhart

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Johannes Friedrich Heinrich Leonhart (born April 29, 1865 in Satrup ; † May 24, 1937 in Kiel ) was a doctor, left-liberal and pacifist politician and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Leonhart attended high school in Altona from 1873 to 1882 and studied medicine at the universities of Tübingen , Kiel and Freiburg until 1887. During his studies, he became a member of the Germania Tübingen fraternity in 1882 and of the Teutonia fraternity in Kiel in 1883 . He was a doctor since 1888 and medical officer of the reserve, as well as a city councilor in Kiel from 1901 to 1904.

From 1903 to 1912 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of the province of Schleswig-Holstein 4 Tondern , Husum , Eiderstedt and the Free People's Party .

In the 1920s he got involved with the German Peace Society, whose Kiel branch he was head of, and for the magazine Die Brücke / Deutsche Zukunft - a bi-monthly publication of the North German Peace Movement, and campaigned for Danish-German understanding. As a pacifist, Leonhart was a critic of the merger between the DDP and the Young German Order to form the German State Party in 1930 , he left the party and joined the Radical Democratic Party (RDP), of which he was a member of the extended executive committee. He was also a member of the Reichsbanner Schwarz- Red-Gold and 1931 in the Iron Front .

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0 , p. 276.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Verlag Carl Heymann, Berlin 1904, p. 110.
  2. ↑ http://www.akens.org/akens/texte/info/33/333408.html
  3. ^ Friedrich Karl Scheer: The German Peace Society (1892-1933). Organization-Ideology-Political Goals , 2nd improved edition. Frankfurt / Main 1983, pp. 540-541
  4. ^ Fricke: Lexicon for the history of parties. Vol. 3. Leipzig 1983, p. 611

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personal data
SURNAME Leonhart, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leonhart, Johannes Friedrich Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and politician (FVp), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Satrup
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1937
Place of death Kiel