Karl Gebhart

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Karl Gebhart 1912

Karl Gebhart (born January 6, 1859 in Lauterecken ; † April 28, 1921 there ) was a German politician (non-party; DVP).

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Gebhart was born as the son of an estate and distillery owner. After attending elementary school in Lauterecken in 1865 and 1872, Gebhart received private lessons until 1876. In addition, he attended the district trade school in Kaiserslautern from 1872 to 1873 . From 1879 to 1881 Gebhart was a member of the 2nd Bavarian Jäger Battalion. Then he worked again in agriculture. He married in 1883. In 1884 or 1886 he took over his parents' estate, which also included a distillery.

In the years 1893 to 1920 Gebhart officiated as a city councilor of Lauterecken and as a member of the agricultural district committee in Kusel. In 1895 Gebhart founded a death benefit association, which eventually comprised 1,100 members, and took over its board in 1900. Also from 1900 Gebhart was deputy chairman of the Vorschutzverein Lauterecken and the surrounding area. In 1911 he was appointed to the Bavarian Economic Council. Gebhart was also the second chairman of the agricultural district association Kusel and the Palatinate section of the Federation of Farmers . In addition, he was head of the specialist body Der Pfälzer Bauer , which reached a circulation of 22,000 copies.

In 1903 Gebhart, as a candidate for the Free Association, became a member of the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies for the first time , to which he was to belong until the collapse of the monarchy in Germany in November 1918 . In the years 1912 to 1918 he was also a member of the Reichstag in Berlin, in which he represented the constituency Pfalz 5 (Homburg-Kusel). In 1919/1920 he was also mayor of Lauterecken.

In January 1919 Gebhart was elected as a non-party member of the Weimar National Assembly, in which he represented constituency 27 (Palatinate). He later switched to the DVP parliamentary group within the National Assembly as an intern . After he had finally joined the DVP, Gebhart was elected to the first Reichstag of the Weimar Republic in June 1920 , where he represented constituency 30 (Palatinate) until his death in April 1921.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 . Issue 2. Berlin: Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1913, p. 96 (Statistics of the German Reich, Vol. 250); compare also Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890–1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 15). Half volume 2, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 1021-1025.

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SURNAME Gebhart, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (independent, DVP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Lauterecken
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1921
Place of death Lauterecken