Karl Marr

Karl Marr (* 22. January 1860 in Hildburghausen ; † 29. March 1942 in Meiningen ) was a German Government , district administrator and mayor.

Life

Karl Marr was born in Hildburghausen in the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen and started the professional career of a state official in the Duchy. During his studies in 1879 he became a member of the Germania Jena fraternity . From 1892 to 1901 he was mayor of Salzungen . Then he was appointed to the district administrator of the Sonneberg district until 1912 . From 1912 to 1918 he worked as a councilor in the Meiningen State Ministry in the Department of the Interior. After the November Revolution , the Meiningen Landtag elected Karl Marr, who was not part of the party, as a civil servant in the new government of the Free State of Saxony-Meiningen on November 12, 1918 . As deputy to the First Minister of State Ludwig von Türcke , he took over the departments of justice, church and school systems. From April 1, 1921 to April 1, 1923, Marr was deputy head of the Meiningen regional government in the newly formed state of Thuringia . He then went into retirement.

literature

• Kuratorium Kulturstadt Meiningen (Ed.): Lexicon on the history of the city of Meiningen. Bielsteinverlag, Meiningen 2008, ISBN 978-3-9809504-4-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hugo Böttger (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1911/12. Berlin 1912, p. 129.
2. ↑ Norbert Moczarski : The forgotten parliaments. State parliaments and regional representations in the Thuringian states and regions 1919–1923. Series of publications on the history of parliamentarism in Thuringia. Volume 19, Erfurt 2002.