Lorenz von Seidlein

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Lorenz Seidlein , Knight of Seidlein since 1906 (born November 15, 1856 in Bamberg , † August 18, 1935 in Munich ) was the last railway minister of the Kingdom of Bavaria .

Life

After studying law, the arch-conservative politician loyal to the king first went through the civil service career and in 1907 became president of the Nuremberg Railway Directorate . The year before, Seidlein had been awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown by Prince Regent Luitpold . Associated with this was the elevation to the personal nobility and he was allowed to call himself Ritter von Seidlein after his entry in the nobility register . After the fall of the Podewils-Dürnitz cabinet , he was appointed Minister of State for Transport Affairs in the Hertling cabinet on February 9, 1912 . In 1913 he was awarded the Order of Merit of St. Michael I Class. His term of office ended with the end of the kingdom in November 1918.

During the Weimar Republic he continued to be politically active, from March 1925 to November 1926 as chairman of the Bavarian Homeland and King Association (BHKB), an association that aimed to restore the monarchy in Bavaria. The well-intentioned attempt by the BHKB to prevent the National Socialists from taking power in Bavaria by appointing the former Crown Prince Rupprecht as State Commissioner General failed because of the amateurism and lack of determination of the actors.

criticism

In October 1917, Finance Minister Georg von Breunig accused his cabinet colleague Seidlein, in an open dispute in front of the state parliament, of placing particular interests of his house above the welfare of the state. During the debate, the liberal MP Ernst Müller-Meiningen described Seidlein’s appointment as a “disaster for the Bavarian government”, while Prime Minister Hertling had to admit that he only knew Seidlein by name before his appointment.

Seidlein was also heavily criticized as a trade union opponent after he had issued the Eisenbahnerrevers , which every employee of the Bavarian railways had to sign when they joined. In it, they had to undertake not to join any association that claimed the right to strike .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria for the year 1914. Munich 1914. P. 24.
  2. ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria for the year 1914. Munich 1914. P. 33.
  3. ↑ Hertling Chosen to be Chancellor. New York Times October 31, 1917.
personal data
SURNAME Seidlein, Lorenz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seidlein, Lorenz Ritter von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian Minister of Railways
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1935
Place of death Munich