Max Becker (politician)

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Max Becker

Richard Max Adolf Becker (born May 25, 1888 in Kassel , † July 29, 1960 in Heidelberg ) was a German politician ( DVP , FDP ).

Life and work

Max Becker, who was a Protestant, studied law in Grenoble , Berlin , Halle (Saale) and Marburg after graduating from high school and settled in Bad Hersfeld as a lawyer and notary in 1913 . He participated in the First World War as a soldier. From 1928 he worked in his own law firm. Becker, who was also very interested in culture, was one of the initiators of the Bad Hersfeld Festival and won his party friend and Federal President Theodor Heuss as patron for the festival, which was first held in 1951. Becker was married and had three children.

Political party

Becker was a member of the DVP in the Weimar Republic . In 1945 he co-founded the LDP in Hesse , which later became the Hessian state association of the FDP. From 1955 until his death he was a member of the FDP federal executive committee . From 1956 to 1958 he was state chairman of the Hessian FDP . In 1959 he was a candidate of the FDP for the office of Federal President (see election of the German Federal President 1959 ).

MP

Becker was a council member in Bad Hersfeld during the Weimar Republic and from 1919 to 1921 also a member of the district council in the Hersfeld district . From 1922 to 1933 he was also a member of the Hessian municipal parliament and the provincial parliament of the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau . 1945 Becker Member of the Municipal Council of the City of Bad Hersfeld and 1946 again of the county in the district Hersfeld.

Becker was a member of the state parliament in Hesse from 1946 to 1949 . In 1948/49 he was a member of the Parliamentary Council , where he was secretary and chairman of the committee on electoral law. He was a member of the German Bundestag from its first election in 1949 until his death. In 1951/52 he was chairman of the parliamentary committee of inquiry to examine whether abuses in the foreign service were caused by personnel policy .

As Thomas Dehler's successor, Becker was chairman of the FDP parliamentary group from January 8, 1957 until the end of the electoral term in the same year , after having been deputy parliamentary group chairman since the “ministerial wing” left. From July 4, 1956 until his death he was Vice President of the German Bundestag . On February 5, 1954, Becker was the first member of the Bundestag to use the newly created instrument of the interim question to put a question to the member of parliament, Alois Niederalt .

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council belonged Becker, whose priorities the foreign and European policy was, from 1950 until his death on. 1952/53 he was a member of the Assembly for a European Constitution and from 1955 until his death of the Assembly of the Western European Union .

Documents from Becker's work in the Parliamentary Council and in the German Bundestag as well as chairman of the FDP parliamentary group and the FDP regional association of Hesse form the core of his estate in the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Gummersbach .

Honors

In 1957 he received the order against seriousness from the Aachen Carnival Association . After his death, he was honored with a state funeral in his hometown of Bad Hersfeld on August 3, 1960. There is also a street named after him there.

literature

  • Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 1: A-M. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , pp. 50-51.
  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 67.
  • Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 207–208 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
  • Dieter Pelda: The members of the Prussian Communal Parliament in Kassel 1867-1933 (= Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. Vol. 22 = Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 8). Elwert, Marburg 1999, ISBN 3-7708-1129-1 , p. 8.

Web links

Commons : Max Becker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 67.
  2. ↑ The law firm was continued by his son-in-law until 1998 and still exists today under the name of the law firm Gesser & Rath in Bad Hersfeld.
personal data
SURNAME Becker, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Becker, Richard Max Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DVP, FDP), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1960
Place of death Heidelberg