Konrad Weiß (politician)

Konrad White

Eduard Konrad Weiss (born March 10, 1863 in Altdorf near Nuremberg , † November 24, 1943 in Nuremberg ) was a German politician ( Free People's Party , DDP ).

Life and work

After attending the elementary school in Altdorf , Weiß, who was of Protestant faith, attended the preparatory school in Neustadt an der Aisch from 1876 to 1879 and then the teachers' seminar in Altdorf until 1881. After working as a teacher in Fürth and Nuremberg and successfully completing the secondary school teacher examination, he was an inspector at the commercial advanced training school in Nuremberg from 1896, where he became city school inspector in 1903 and city school councilor in 1911.

Political party

Initially, Weiß belonged to the Free People's Party , which in 1910 united with other left-wing liberal groups to form the Progressive People's Party . When the German Democratic Party was founded from this in 1918 , Weiß also took part.

MP

Weiß had been a member of the Central Franconian District Administrator since 1893. From 1893 to 1911 he was also a member of the Nuremberg community college and then of the city council. From 1893 to 1898 he was a member of the Reichstag for the constituency of Middle Franconia 2 ( Erlangen - Fürth ), where he was able to prevail in a runoff election against the social democratic candidate Segitz. In 1898 he ran again, but did not get into the runoff election. In 1919/20 he was a member of the Weimar National Assembly and in July 1919 was involved in the final negotiations on the Weimar school compromise . Then he was again a member of the Reichstag until 1924 .

Individual evidence

^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 206.

Web links

Literature by and about Konrad Weiß in the catalog of the German National Library
Konrad Weiß in the database of members of the Reichstag

personal data
SURNAME	White, Konrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	White, Konrad Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (Liberal People's Party, DDP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	March 10, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH	Altdorf near Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH	November 24, 1943
Place of death	Nuremberg

[1] Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 206.