Karl Biester

Karl Biester (born January 29, 1878 in Herrenhausen , † November 5, 1949 in Langenhagen ) was a German farmer and politician ( DHP , later NLP ).

Life and work

Biester attended secondary school in Hanover and the agricultural school in Hildesheim . He worked in agriculture from 1898 and became an independent farmer in Langenhagen in 1913 . Biester inherited the farm from his father Philipp, but leased it to his younger brother Gustav (June 21, 1885 in Herrenhausen), who had been running the Biester farm since 1905. From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a soldier .

Political party

In 1900 Biester joined the German-Hanoverian DHP ("Die Welfen") party, which was dissolved after the National Socialists came to power. From 1904 he was a member of the peace movement. He ran for the Prussian House of Representatives unsuccessfully in 1913. After 1918 Biester belonged to the party leadership of the DHP. Threatened after 1933 and questioned several times, the NSDAP Gauleiter Lauterbacher wanted to have him executed on April 5, 1945 because of his connections to the Kreisau district. In 1945/46 Biester participated in the founding of the Lower Saxony state party , from which the German party later emerged. His younger brother Dr. Georg Biester was also a member of the DHP, in the twenties and thirties deputy mayor of Langenhagen and after World War II a member of the district council of the district of Hanover.

MP

Biester was a member of the Prussian state constitutional assembly from 1919 to 1921 and was then elected to the Prussian state parliament, to which he belonged until 1933. Together with four other DHP members, Biester was a permanent guest of the center group until May 21, 1924 . In the following legislative period, the six DHP members joined forces with the members of the Economic Party to form the Economic Association . From 1928 to 1932 he was a member of the German parliamentary group , which was formed from the DHP, the CNBL , the Völkisch National Block and the Reich Party for People's Law and Appreciation . During the last two legislative periods of the Prussian state parliament, Biester was the only DHP member there and was therefore called "the last Welf".

Biester was a member of the Appointed Hanover State Parliament in 1946 and a member of the Appointed Lower Saxony State Parliament in 1946/47 . He was then elected to the Lower Saxony state parliament, to which he belonged until his death.

literature

• Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 45.
• Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 57.