Kurt Wilhelm Fromm
Kurt Wilhelm Fromm (born June 7, 1888 at Gut Schaumburg near Schalkau , † January 8, 1953 in Breitenau ) was a German politician ( DNVP ).
Live and act
Kurt Wilhelm Fromm was born the son of a manor owner . From 1895 to 1900 he attended elementary schools in Schalkau and Almerswind, and later the ducal high school in Coburg . Then he was taught by private tutors on his parents' estate, Gut Almerswind . After he had been trained at the higher agricultural college in Döbeln from 1904 to 1906 , Fromm completed an agricultural apprenticeship on several foreign estates as well as on the parental estates of Almerswind and Breitenau. In between he spent a year in the military.
From 1914 Fromm took part in the First World War. In the following four years he was adjutant and company leader of the III. Battalion of the 6th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 95 deployed on the Eastern and Western Fronts. He fought in more than 60 battles and skirmishes and was awarded numerous medals, such as the Iron Cross of both classes, the Herzog Carl Eduard Cross of Merit with Swords, the Herzog Carl Eduard Medal with clasps, swords and date inscription and the Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order II class.
After the war, Fromm took over the management of his father's estate in Breitenau. He also joined the Bavarian Central Party , which from 1920 formed the Bavarian State Association of the German National People's Party (DNVP). In 1920 he married. From 1920 to 1924 Fromm was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament for the Middle Party . From 1923 Fromm was a co-tenant of the Niederfüllbach manor near Coburg. In the Reichstag election of December 1924 , he was elected to the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic as a DNVP candidate for constituency 26 (Franconia) . After his mandate was confirmed in the 1928 election, he was a member of the Reichstag from December 1924 to September 1930.
In addition to his work as a member of the Landtag and Reichstag, and as a farmer, Fromm also took on numerous offices at the municipal level in the 1920s: for example, he was a member of the Bavarian State Board of the Reichslandbund , district councilor and agricultural consultant and expert in the Upper Franconia district, member of the Bavarian State Railway Council, member of the District Chamber of Farmers Upper Franconia, Chairman of the Coburg Farmers' Association and the District Chamber of Coburg and member of the State Chamber of Farmers in Munich.
In 1933 Fromm was imprisoned for a few weeks. From 1939 to 1944 he was a member of the Wehrmacht .
After 1945 Fromm became a member of the Christian Social Union (CSU). From 1947 to 1949 he was a member of the Economic Council . Fromm's estate is now in the State Archives in Coburg .
Honors
- 1952: Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany
literature
- Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .
Web links
- Kurt Wilhelm Fromm in the database of members of the Reichstag
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reichstag Handbook 1924
- ↑ Jaromir Balcar / Thomas Schlemmer: At the top of the CSU. The governing bodies of the Christian-Social Union , 2007, p. 96.
- ↑ http://www.gda.bayern.de/archive/coburg/108.php ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fromm, Kurt Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (DNVP), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 7, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | to Gut Schaumburg near Schalkau |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 8, 1953 |
| Place of death | Breitenau |