Carl Cremer

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Carl Cremer

Carl Cremer (born May 10, 1876 in Essen , † December 24, 1953 in Mosbach ) was a German lawyer, writer and politician (DVP).

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Life in the Empire (1875 to 1918)

In his youth Cremer attended humanistic high schools in Essen and Hagen in Westphalia. After graduating from high school, which he passed in 1894, he studied law, history and economics at the universities of Tübingen , Berlin and Marburg until 1897 . In 1897 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the warehouse business. With special consideration of the new Commercial Code for the German Empire for Dr. jur. He then belonged to the 7th Lorraine Infantry Regiment 158 ​​in Paderborn for a year until 1898 . In 1902 Cremer passed the second state examination in law.

He then worked as a lawyer in Hagen and Dortmund from 1903 to 1919 . In 1906 Cremer began to be politically active. He became a member of the National Liberal Party , which he eventually chaired in the Hagen-Schwelm district. He was also a city councilor in Hagen for the NLP from 1912 to 1918 and a member of the Prussian House of Representatives for the constituency of Dortmund from 1913 to 1918 . He was also a member of the board of the German colonial society from 1909.

From August 2, 1914, Cremer took part in the First World War as first lieutenant in the reserve and company leader . He first fought in Belgium and France before being seriously wounded on September 17, 1914 in the Battle of Reims . As "limited garrison service" he officiated from September 13, 1915 to December 17, 1918 as district chief in the Upper East Administration in Lithuania, where he was mainly responsible for organizational and economic tasks. When he retired from the army in 1919, he held the rank of captain . He was also the bearer of the Iron Cross .

Weimar Republic (1919 to 1933)

At the end of 1918, Cremer joined the German People's Party (DVP), and was accepted into its central board almost immediately. His motive for joining this party and not the DNVP , which is further to the right , was, according to a letter to Alfred Hugenberg on March 16, that Cremer “did not belong to the majority of the [because of the industry-friendly attitude of the DVP of these close friends] from Westphalia [. ..] wanted to separate ”. In 1919 Cremer took part in the organizational expansion of the DVP by taking over the chairmanship of the party's West German working group. A year later, in 1920, he also became a member of the executive committee of his party, now based in Berlin.

On the recommendation of Alfred Vögler , Cremer was employed by Alfred Hugenberg in 1920 as managing director of Überseedienst GmbH and as general director of the Telegraphen-Union in its corporate conglomerate, the so-called Hugenberg concern. He was also head of the Dammert publishing house in Berlin. He was also the founder and employee of several daily newspapers and magazines. In his article publications, Cremer mainly dealt with financial and economic policy issues.

In the first Reichstag election of the Weimar Republic in June 1920, Cremer was elected to the Reichstag for the first time , to which he was to belong for five legislative periods, until the election in July 1932, as a representative of constituencies 12 and 11 (Merseburg). As a parliamentarian, Cremer campaigned in particular for the interests of Westphalian heavy industry. As a confidante of party chairman Gustav Stresemann , he also acted as Stresemann's intermediary for the Dreyfus bank. For this purpose Stresemann also arranged for Cremer's delegation to the shareholders' meeting of the Franconian Courier .

Cremer took on other high offices in parliament: in 1925 he became chairman of the propaganda committee of the Reichstag and in December 1928 he took over the chairmanship of the committee for Reich reform. Within the DVP parliamentary group, he formed a group with Julius Curtius and Reinhold Quaatz . Cremer finally left the DVP on July 2, 1932, because he did not want to approve of the political shift to the right of the DVP under Stresemann's successor as party chairman, Eduard Dingeldey .

Fonts

  • The warehouse business. Taking into account the new Commercial Code for the German Empire , Hagen 1897 (dissertation)
  • German train stations and their service to travelers. Represented by German train station landlords and tenants with the collaboration of Carl Cremer , Dresden 1931.

literature

  • Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads: who was what? , Bacht, Essen 1985 ISBN 3-87034-037-1 .
  • Andreas Donay: Carl Cremer and the German Colonial Society . In: Fabian Fechner u. a. (Ed.): Colonial pasts of the city of Hagen , Hagen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063343-0 , pp. 96-99.

Web links

  • Carl Cremer in the database of members of the Reichstag

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. 99 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3); 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. 623-631.
  2. ↑ Eberhard Kolb National Liberalism in the Weimar Republic , Half Volume 2, 1999, p. 21.
  3. ^ Heidrun Holzbach: The "System Hugenberg" , 1981, p. 91.
  4. ^ Walter Mühlhausen: Friedrich Ebert 1871-1925. President of the Weimar Republic , 2006, p. 460.
  5. ^ Larry Eugene Jones : German Liberalism and the Dissolution of the Weimar Party System, 1918-1933 , 1988, p. 89.
personal data
SURNAME Cremer, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DVP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1953
Place of death Mosbach