Karl Motz (politician)

Karl Motz (born December 26, 1893 in Katzweiler ; † February 11, 1963 in Homburg ) was a German politician ( DVP , later FDP ).

Life

After attending elementary and middle school, Motz completed a commercial apprenticeship, which he completed with the assistant examination. From 1914 he took part in the First World War as a soldier . He initially worked as a clerk and from 1928 ran a business as an independent agricultural merchant. In 1933 he became operations manager of the Katzweiler milk cooperative and managing director of the Palatinate milk supply association.

Motz joined the young liberals after the November Revolution. He was a member of the SPD from 1920 to 1921 and joined the German People's Party (DVP) in 1928. From 1930 to 1933 he held the office of mayor of the municipality of Katzweiler. In 1933 he joined the NSDAP .

After the Second World War , Motz was denazified in a court proceedings . On November 26, 1946, the Neustadt Central Judicial Chamber banned him for two years and sentenced him to a fine of 15,000 Reichsmarks. From 1950 he worked again as an agricultural merchant in Katzweiler and was chairman of the professional association of the Palatinate agricultural trade.

Motz joined the Social Volksbund after 1945 , which merged with other liberal parties to form the state association of the FDP Rhineland-Palatinate . He was a board member of the FDP district association Kaiserslautern and a member of the party's state executive committee. In terms of local politics , he was a member of the parliament and chairman of the FDP parliamentary group in the Kaiserslautern district council .

In the state elections in 1951 , Motz was elected to the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament from a list of the FDP , to which he belonged until the end of the 1955 legislative period. In parliament he was chairman of the Petitions Committee and a member of the Borderlands Committee and the Main Committee. From September 15, 1953 to 1955, he succeeded Karl Lahr as chairman of the FDP parliamentary group.

honors and awards

• 1954: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• The President of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate (Ed.): The representatives of the free people. The members of the Consultative State Assembly and the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1946 to 2015. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-04750-4 , pp. 475–476.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. 12th edition. Arani, Berlin 1955, p. 817.