Karl Poppe (politician, 1863)

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Karl Poppe

Karl Poppe (born September 10, 1863 in Heiligenstadt im Eichsfeld; † August 3, 1932 there ) was a German politician ( center ).

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Poppe was born the son of a municipal secretary. From 1869 to 1874 he attended the community school and grammar school in Heiligenstadt. He later studied theology at the University of Münster from 1883 to 1886 . After attending the episcopal educational institution and the seminary in Paderborn, Poppe was ordained a priest on August 15, 1887. He then worked as a chaplain or parish administrator in Dingelstädt , Neustadt, Kalteneber and Heiligenstadt. From 1894 to 1912 he was pastor in Mengelrode . Then he was appointed provost in Heiligenstadt.

During the Empire , Poppe began to get involved in the Catholic Center Party . For this he was elected in the Reichstag election of January 1912 as a candidate for the constituency Erfurt 2 (Heiligenstadt-Worbis) in the Reichstag . He was a member of this until the collapse of the German Empire in November 1918.

In the first Reichstag election of the Weimar Republic in June 1920, Poppe was able to return to parliament as a candidate for the center for constituency 13 (Thuringia) , to which he belonged this time until the elections of May 1924.

Individual evidence

  1. Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 . Booklet 2. Berlin: Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1913, p. 89 (Statistics of the German Reich, vol. 250)

Web links

  • Karl Poppe in the database of members of the Reichstag