Karl Andres

Karl Andres , actually Carl Andres , (born January 13, 1876 in Kirn ; † August 29, 1935 in Bad Kreuznach ) was a German landowner, viticulture lobbyist and politician.

Life

Born as the son of the brewery owner Philipp Andres in Kirn, who also owned the Gutleuthof winery near Bad Kreuznach, Karl Andres attended grammar school in Weilburg and began studying law at the University of Heidelberg after graduating from high school (Easter 1896) . Here he became a member of the Corps Rhenania . He completed an apprenticeship in viticulture in Austria and the Palatinate and, after a study trip to California in 1902, took over the Gutleuthof family winery near Kreuznach.

On December 10, 1913, Andres was elected to the Prussian House of Representatives for the constituency of Koblenz 4 (Kreuznach, Simmern, Zell) , to which he belonged until 1919. From 1912 to 1917 he was a member of the central board of the National Liberal Party . From 1919 to 1933 he was a member of the Rhenish Provincial Parliament and Provincial Committee and in 1926 a member of the Prussian State Council . In addition, he was active in the viticulture lobby and was deputy chairman of the Association of Prussian Wine Regions and the Association of German Natural Wine Auctioneers, member of the Chamber of Agriculture of the Rhine Province and the Main Chamber of Agriculture in Berlin, chairman and honorary chairman of the Upper Rhine and federal board member of the Reichslandbund and member of the Reich Economic Court .

As a captain in the Field Artillery Regiment. 31 he had from 1914 to 1918 in the West in the battles in Lorraine , Nancy-Epinal and at the Somme participated in the East in the battle in the Mazury in Vilnius and on Lake Narach Lake . Last major of the reserve was Andres Chairman (1934 Honorary Chairman) of the warriors' associations of the Kyffhäuserbund in the Kreuznach and Meisenheim districts.

Karl Andres died on the Gutleuthof winery near Bad Kreuznach, which he owned.

Andres' son Heinz-Eberhardt Andres was the district administrator of the Alzey district from 1952 to 1969.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslist 1960, 65 , 470
2. ↑ For the election results see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867-1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 764-767.

literature

• Short biography in Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 48 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3)