Karl Rothmeier

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Karl Rothmeier (born June 13, 1877 in Forsthart ; † August 16, 1926 ) was a politician of the Bavarian People's Party (BVP).

Life

Karl Roth Meier published in 1918, for the 1883 from a merger of the Telegraph officials association and the association traffic officer Munich incurred, Bavarian traffic official association . On 26 April 1919 railway secretary Karl Roth Meier campaigned on behalf of the entire Ministry at a conference for civil servants, clergy and teachers in Bayreuth for the recruitment of volunteer corps .

In 1920 he founded the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Beamtenvereinigung in the BVP , which, in addition to the representatives of the farmers, represented the right spectrum of the party. He was chairman of the regional association of Bavaria in the Reichsverband deutscher Konsumvereine and member of the provisional Reichswirtschaftsrat . From 1919 until his death, he was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament for the BVP during the first three legislative periods . He was a railway administrator in Munich until 1921, then he was promoted to railway inspector.

Gustav Stresemann ended passive resistance against the occupation of the Ruhr in autumn 1923 . As a result, the Bavarian state government under Eugen von Knilling declared a state of emergency and appointed Gustav von Kahr as State Commissioner General with dictatorial powers for Bavaria. On the morning of November 9, 1923, Rothmeier, Fritz Schäffer , Karl Friedrich Speck , Wilhelm Krausneck , Heinrich Oswald (politician) , Wilhelm von Meinel , Eduard Hamm , chaired by Franz Matt, gathered in the house of the Catholic Women's Association at Theresienstraße 25 and gave “a Appeal against the Hitler-Ludendorff putsch , which called on the entire civil service, police and Reichswehr to remain loyal to their constitutional government and to refuse service to the revolutionaries ”. On the evening of the same day, Rothmeier and Schäffer called in a parliamentary group meeting of the BVP to trust Gustav von Kahr without hesitation and wholeheartedly. Karl Rothmeier was promoted to senior railway inspector in 1925.

Publications

  • The balance of the achievement of the Bavarian. Verkehrsbetriebe GJ Manz, 1923 - 31 pp.
  • State and economic policy writings, (edited by Dr. Anton Pfeiffer and Karl Rothmeier.) Munich, Verlag der Politik Zeitfragen Dr. Franz A. Pfeiffer, 1920. 8.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historischer Verein für Oberfranken Archive for the history of Upper Franconia: Volume 54 1974 page 186
  2. ↑ Otto Altendorfer-Fritz Schäffer as a politician of the Bavarian People's Party, 1888–1945, 1993, 945 p. 221
  3. ^ Lydia Schmidt, Minister of Culture Franz Matt (1920–1926): School, church and art policy in Bavaria after the upheaval of 1918, 2000, 334 pp., 80
  4. ↑ http://www.bundesarchiv.de/aktenreichskanzlei/1919-1933/1000/adr/adrmr/kap1_6/para2_181.html
personal data
SURNAME Rothmeier, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (BVP)
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Forsthart
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1926