Joseph Bitta

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Joseph Bitta

Joseph Bitta (born March 12, 1856 in Langendorf , Ratibor district , today in Hultschin ; † July 20, 1932 in Kaulwitz near Namslau ) was a German politician at the center .

Life and work

After graduating from high school in Leobschütz , Bitta studied law and political science in Leipzig and Breslau from 1875 to 1878 . After a year as a research assistant at the public prosecutor's office in Glogau , he settled in 1884 as a lawyer in the district court district of Tarnowitz . In 1910 he was admitted to the bar at the Wroclaw Higher Regional Court .

Bitta was involved in the Catholic People's Association, the German Agricultural Society and in the Upper Silesian Mining and Hüttenmännischer Verein. Since 1890 he sat on the advisory board of the State Insurance Institution of Silesia. From 1896 to 1910 he was a member of the plenary session of the Opole Chamber of Commerce .

MP

From 1884 to 1910 Bitta was a member of the district council and district committee in the Tarnowitz district . He was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives from 1910 to 1918. Bitta was a member of the Weimar National Assembly in 1919/20 . In contrast to the majority of his group colleagues, he voted on June 22, 1919 in the National Assembly against the conclusion of the Versailles Treaty . He was then a member of the Reichstag until November 1922 .

Public offices

From November 8, 1919 to 1922, Bitta was Executive President of the Province of Upper Silesia .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne . Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 69 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3)

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