Karl von Freyberg

Karl von Freyberg as President of the German Katholikentag, 1898

Karl Leopold Maria Freiherr von Freyberg-Eisenberg zu Jetzendorf (born November 15, 1866 in Jetzendorf ; † January 10, 1940 ibid) was a German politician and the first Bavarian Minister of Agriculture after the Munich Soviet Republic .

He came from the old south German noble family of Freyberg and Freyberg-Eisenberg . Karl von Freyberg, the lord of the Jetzendorf castle , was a brewery owner, farmer and co-founder of the Raiffeisen organization in Bavaria. The baron held the dignity of a royal Bavarian chamberlain as well as a knight of the Order of St. George and acted as president of the 45th German Catholic Congress in Krefeld in 1898. From 1907 to 1912 he was a member of the Reichstag for the constituency of Upper Bavaria 4 Ingolstadt , Freising , Pfaffenhofen and the German Center Party .

As a member of the Bavarian People's Party , Freyberg served as Bavarian Agriculture Minister under Prime Minister Johannes Hoffmann from May 31, 1919 to March 14, 1920 .

Karl-von-Freyberg-Strasse is named after him in his home town of Jetzendorf.

Fonts

Karl Freiherr von Freyberg: The agricultural debt question in theory and practice. Schweitzer, Munich 1894.
Karl Freiherr von Freyberg: The feed industry in the war. Hobbing, Berlin 1919.

Heinz Haushofer : Freyberg, Karl Leopold Maria Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 420 f. ( Digitized version ).
Joachim Lilla: Freyberg, Karl Frhr. v. , in: Minister of State, senior administrative officials and (NS) functionaries in Bavaria from 1918 to 1945

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personal data
SURNAME	Freyberg, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Freyberg-Eisenberg, Karl Leopold Maria Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (center), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	November 15, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH	Jetzendorf
DATE OF DEATH	January 10, 1940
Place of death	Jetzendorf