Karl Stingl

Karl Stingl

Karl Stingl (born July 29, 1864 in Mitterteich , Upper Palatinate , † November 9, 1936 in Munich ) was a German engineer , administrative officer and politician ( BVP ).

Life and work

After attending school, Stingl began studying at the Technical University of Munich , which he completed as a graduate engineer. During his studies in 1882 he became a member of the Cimbria Munich fraternity . He joined the Bavarian Post and Telegraph Administration in 1885 , worked in the Bavarian Ministry of Transport from 1904 and was appointed Chief Postal Director in Landshut in 1910. From 1919 he was ministerial director of the postal department in the Bavarian Ministry of Transport.

Public offices

Stingl was appointed State Secretary in 1920 and in this role was head of the Munich department of the Reich Ministry of Post . During his tenure, u. a. the commissioning of the first automatic remote exchange with time and zone counting in Weilheim and the completion of the automatic operation of what was then Europe's largest self-dialing system in Munich . From November 22, 1922 to August 12, 1923 and again from January 15, 1925 to January 28, 1927, he served as Reich Minister of Post in the governments led by Reich Chancellors Wilhelm Cuno , Hans Luther and Wilhelm Marx . During his second term in office in particular, he campaigned for an improvement in the economic management of the Deutsche Reichspost . Due to his special commitment to technical progress, the TH Munich made him an honorary doctorate in technical sciences (doctoral engineer) in 1925 . When Stingl campaigned for a postage stamp with the image of Frederick the Great as part of a series of stamps entitled " Significant Men in German History" , this was rejected by parties loyal to the Weimar Republic . The criticism also within his own party, the BVP, heralded the end of his political career. His successor as Reich Minister of the Post was Georg Schätzel . Stingl withdrew from politics and was then on the supervisory boards of various companies for a few years before he died in Munich in 1936.

Honors

• Honorary doctorate in engineering (Dr.-Ing.hc)
• Karl-Stingl-Strasse in Mitterteich

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 523-524.
• Manfred Knedlik: Reichspostminister Dr. Karl Stingl. A contribution to the postal history of the Weimar Republic. In: Archive for German Postal History. Issue 1/1992, ISSN  0003-8989 , pp. 46-52.
• Manual dictionary of the postal system ;
  • 1st edition; P. 612
  • 2nd Edition; P. 698

Web links

• Short biography in the files of the Reich Chancellery
• Photo by Karl Stingl at the Mitterteich home care work group

Individual evidence

1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 524.