Josef Schmitt (politician, 1874)

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Josef Schmitt

Josef Schmitt (born April 2, 1874 in Lauda , † December 16, 1939 there ) was a German lawyer and politician of the Center Party . He was President of the Republic of Baden .

Life

After studying law, he became a magistrate in Boxberg . On May 4, 1901, he married Anna Augusta Gähringer in Karlsruhe. The marriage resulted in two daughters. On April 29, 1901 he was appointed as "Assessor" to the collegiate member of the Catholic Upper Foundation Council in Karlsruhe and in 1903 he was promoted to the Upper Foundation Council.

Schmitt was a member of the state parliament in the Republic of Baden from 1921 to 1925 and from 1929 to 1933 . From 1927 to 1931 he was Minister of Finance, from 1931 to 1933 Minister of Justice and, for a short time, also Minister of Education in 1931. As finance minister, on July 12, 1927, he approved the Bonndorf settlement with the Catholic Church, the triggering legal process of which he had begun in 1919 as senior foundation councilor on the side of the Bonndorf parish .

From 1928 to 1930 and from 1931 to 1933 Schmitt held the office of President and was thus head of the Cabinets Schmitt I , Schmitt II and Schmitt III . From 1932 to 1933 Schmitt was a member of the Reichstag . Shortly before the National Socialists “took power ” in Baden in 1933 , the government he led negotiated a concordat with the Vatican .

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  1. ^ Eugen Baumgartner : Parish church and parish of St. Urban in Freiburg-Herdern in: Freiburg Diocesan Archive , Volume 65, Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1937, p. 101, digitized
  2. Alexander Hollerbach : Catholicism and Jurisprudence: Contributions to Catholicism Research and the Modern History of Science , Ferdinand Schönigh, Paderborn / Munich / Vienna / Zurich 2004, p. 167, preview in the Google book search