Karl Berberich

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Karl Berberich around 1929

Karl Rudolf Berberich (born November 24, 1877 in Bruchsal ; † January 27, 1957 there ) was a German teacher and member of the Baden state parliament from 1927 to 1933.

Life

Berberich was born the son of a shoemaker in Bruchsal. After completing his education at the elementary school and high school in Bruchsal, he attended the teachers' seminar in Ettlingen and from 1996 taught at schools in several Baden cities. From 1902 he worked as a teacher in Bruchsal at an elementary school. In 1913 he was elected to the city council of Bruchsal. After the beginning of the First World War he was called up for military service in August 1914 and served as an officer in the Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 40 .

After the end of the war, he was active in local committees in Bruchsal, and as a member of the Center Party, he moved up to the Baden state parliament in May 1927 for Heinrich Köhler, who had left the electoral district of Karlsruhe. In the fourth electoral term of the state parliament of the Republic of Baden, he represented the constituency of Bruchsal-Bretten from 1929 to 1933. After taking power in 1933, Berberich was arrested and temporarily taken into protective custody, on November 24, 1933 he was forcibly retired . As part of the Gewitter campaign , he was arrested again at the end of August 1944 and taken into protective custody for around two months.

After the liberation he was head of the Bruchsal district school authority from 1945 until his retirement in 1948 , and from 1946 he sat for the CDU in the first post - war municipal council of Bruchsal. Berberich died in 1957 and was buried in Bruchsal.

Honors

  • 1952: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
  • 1963: Namesake of Karl-Berberich-Strasse in Bruchsal
  • 1978: Namesake of the Karl Berberich School in Bruchsal

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