Karl Lahr

Karl Lahr (born March 27, 1899 in Wendelsheim , † December 5, 1974 in Mainz ) was a German farmer and politician ( FDP , FVP , DP ).

Life and work

After attending the Progymnasium in Alzey and the Gymnasium in Gießen , Lahr was drafted into the military and took part in the First World War as a soldier in 1917/18 . He was wounded twice during the war. In 1919 he began to study law at the universities of Giessen (member of the Corps Teutonia ) and Frankfurt am Main , which he finished in 1924 with the first state examination in law. He then took over his parents-in-law's farm in Ober-Hilbersheim , which he subsequently ran as an independent farmer. From 1939 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier . He later acted as president of the Rheinhessen farmers' association .

Political party

Lahr was a member of the DNVP from 1923 to 1933 . In 1946 he was one of the founders of the Sozialen Volksbund (SV), from which the state association of the FDP Rhineland-Palatinate later emerged.

MP

Lahr was first elected to the Advisory State Assembly of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1946. However, his mandate was declared dormant at the first meeting on November 22, 1946 due to objections from the French military government. In a further meeting in December, the electoral review committee charged with reviewing the mandate declared Lahr's election to be invalid.

From 1951 until his resignation on September 30, 1953, Lahr was a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament and chairman of the FDP parliamentary group there in 1952/53. He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1953 to 1957. Originally elected for the FDP, he left it on February 23, 1956 with the so-called Euler Group in protest against the coalition change of the Liberals in North Rhine-Westphalia from the CDU to the SPD and took part in the founding of the Free People's Party (FVP) joined the German party in March 1957 .

Public offices

Lahr served as mayor of the municipality of Ober-Hilbersheim from 1946 to 1956 .