Karl Barth (politician, 1896)
Karl Barth (born March 23, 1896 in St. Ingbert ; † August 2, 1962 in Saarbrücken ) was a German lawyer, National Socialist , local politician and Protestant senior church councilor.
Life
Karl Barth grew up in St. Ingbert as the son of an elementary school teacher. In 1915 he passed his Abitur in Zweibrücken and then studied law at the University of Heidelberg . From 1916 to 1918 he served as a pioneer in World War I and was awarded the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class . In 1918 he was appointed lieutenant in the reserve . In August 1918 he was injured in a gas attack and seriously wounded on October 1, 1918.
After the war he was able to continue his studies. Barth was involved with the Free German Youth and as a representative of the democratic student body in the Asta of Heidelberg. In November 1922 he passed the second state examination. He then worked as a government assessor and Councilor at the District Office St. Ingbert. From 1930 to 1933 he was head of the municipal department in the Interior Directorate of the Saarland Government Commission . On April 1, 1931, he was appointed to the Upper Government Council.
In May 1932, Barth applied for the position of Lord Mayor of Kaiserslautern , but was rejected. From 1933 to 1935 Barth was senior church councilor at the Protestant Church of the Palatinate in Speyer and joined the German Christian faith movement . He was then promoted to government director in the service of the Reich Commissioner for Saarland Josef Bürckel . On May 1, 1935, he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 3.588.333). First he was head of the Gau main office in the Gau for local politics in the Saar-Palatinate .
From March 1938 to April 1940 he was delegated to the Reich Commissioner for the reunification of Austria with the German Reich , and on May 1, 1938, he was appointed Vice President of the Government and, with the start of World War II, on September 1, 1939, President of the Government. On May 1, 1940, he was transferred back to the Saar area, where he was appointed regional president of the Reichsstatthalter in Westmark and head of civil administration in Lorraine and Saarbrücken .
On April 26, 1945, Barth was arrested by American troops in Würzburg and interned in Böhl-Iggelheim , Garmisch , Hohenasperg and Ludwigsburg until 1948 . In the denazification process he was classified as a "follower".
Barth settled in Obermohr and was involved in the Protestant Diakonissenanstalt Speyer . He became regional chairman of the Palatine men's work of the regional church. In 1956 he was to be sent to the federal capital Bonn as a representative of the Saarland government , but this failed due to the reservations of the federal government . Instead, he was appointed district administrator for the Saarbrücken district, a position he filled up to a year before his death.
In addition, from 1957 he was a member of the supervisory board of the United Saar-Elektrizitäts-Aktiengesellschaft and shortly before his death he was still president of the Sparkassen- und Giroverband.
Despite his high membership number, Barth was the holder of the Golden Party Badge of the NSDAP and, despite his late entry, was considered an old fighter .
literature
- Franz Maier: Biographical organization manual of the NSDAP and its structures in the area of today's state of Rhineland-Palatinate (= publications of the commission of the state parliament for the history of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . No. 28 ). 2nd Edition. v. Hase & Koehler, Mainz / Zarrentin 2009, ISBN 978-3-7758-1408-9 , p. 128-129 .
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
Web links
- Entry on Karl Barth in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
- Thomas Bergholz: Barth Karl in the Saarland biographies
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 29
- ↑ Michael Schepua: "Socialism of Action" for the "Bulwark in the West": Development and characteristics of National Socialism in the Palatinate . In: Heinz-Günther Borck, Wolfgang Laufer (ed.): Yearbook for West German State History . 25th year. Landesarchivverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz, 1999, ISSN 0170-2025 , p. 578-579 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barth, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, National Socialist, local politician and Protestant clergyman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 23, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Ingbert |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd August 1962 |
| Place of death | Saarbrücken |