Martin Schiele

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Martin Schiele

Martin Schiele (born January 17, 1870 in Groß Schwarzlosen , Altmark ; † February 16, 1939 in Zislow, Suckow , Mecklenburg ) was a German politician ( German Conservative Party , DNVP , CNBL ) and briefly Minister of the Interior and twice Reich Minister of Food in the Weimar Republic .

Life and work

The Brüning I cabinet on March 31, 1930: standing 2nd from left Martin Schiele
Martin Schiele in the Luther I cabinet (seated, 2nd from right)
Martin Schiele's grave

Schiele, who was of Protestant faith, came from a farming family; his father was already a manor - tenant . After graduating from high school in Stendal and training in agriculture, he managed a manor in Neu Schollene that he had leased and also worked as a manufacturer here. After the Kapp Putsch, reactionary volunteer corps against the Reich government were investigated for active participation in it, but the proceedings were discontinued in 1924.

From August 1928 to October 1930 Schiele was President of the Reichslandbund , which represents the interests of farmers in the German Reich. The Reichslandbund was dominated by national-conservative large agrarians who forced him to resign after changing his party to the rather small-scale Christian-National Peasant and Rural People's Party. As a representative of the Reichslandbund, he was one of the organizers of the referendum against the Young Plan . He was also an honorary doctor of agriculture at the Agricultural University in Bonn-Poppelsdorf and a member of the supervisory board of Getreide-Industrie & Commission AG in Berlin.

Parties

Schiele was a member of the German Conservative Party during the German Empire . In 1918 he participated in the founding of the DNVP . On July 22, 1930, he joined the CNBL because he did not want to represent the DNVP's opposition to the Weimar Republic , which was enforced by Alfred Hugenberg , and also did not want to represent its agricultural policy.

MP

From 1897 on, Schiele was a member of the district council in the Jerichow II district , where he had been a member of the district committee since 1907 .

Schiele was a member of the Reichstag for the constituency of Jerichow from 1914, when he was re-elected for the Social Democrat Haupt, until 1918 . He belonged to the Weimar National Assembly in 1919/1920 and was then again a member of the Reichstag until 1930.

Public offices

Schiele was Reich Minister of the Interior from January 15 to October 23, 1925 in the cabinet of non-party Hans Luther . From January 28, 1927 to June 12, 1928 he was Reich Food Minister in the cabinet of the center politician Wilhelm Marx . In February 1928 he presented an emergency program for agriculture , with which the situation of the farmers should be improved and the supply of the population secured.

From March 30, 1930 to May 30, 1932, under Heinrich Brüning ( center ), he again held the office of Minister of Food. During this tenure, too, he organized several aid programs, including Eastern aid for agriculture. The main aim was to create a stable internal market by means of agricultural protectionist measures.

Fonts (selection)

  • How can agriculture become profitable again? A speech. 1929.
  • The protection of agriculture. 1930.

literature

Web links

Commons : Martin Schiele  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1627.
personal data
SURNAME Schiele, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DNVP, CNBL), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Groß Schwarzlosen , Altmark
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1939
Place of death Zislow, district of Suckow , Mecklenburg