Max Donnevert

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Max Donnevert, 1911

Maximilian Donnevert (born December 19, 1872 in Saarlouis , † February 4, 1936 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer , politician and science officer.

After attending secondary school, he studied law and political science at the universities of Freiburg , Strasbourg and Berlin . During his studies he became a member of the student choir Arion Strasbourg in the association of special houses . After the major state examination (1900) he worked as a trainee lawyer in Saargemünd , Sierck , Metz and Colmar , and from 1901 as a lawyer at the regional court of Metz. During the First World War he served as a captain in the Bavarian Landwehr Cavalry. From 1916 he worked in the German administration of Belgium, from 1919 at the Reich resolution authorities in Berlin, from 1920 in the Reich Ministry of the Interior. Here he became head of the cultural-political department and Reich Commissioner at the Emergency Association of German Sciences and at the Kaiser Wilhelm Society . Most recently he worked as head of the Reich Exchange Agency in the Reich Ministry of the Interior .

He ran for the Liberal Democrats in 1911 in the constituency of Metz I for the state parliament of the Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine . In the first ballot he received 1,711 votes or 45.3%, in the second ballot he was well ahead of the center's candidate with 2,506 votes or 63.7%. Donnevert was thus a member of the second chamber of the state parliament from 1911 to 1918.

After the reintegration of Alsace-Lorraine into France, Donnevert became chairman of the German "Aid Federation for the Alsace-Lorraine in the Reich" and second chairman of the "Scientific Institute of the Alsace-Lorraine in the Reich", ELI, under the chairman Albert Ehrhard .

From 1927 he was an honorary member of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society and, because of his support as Ministerialrat in the Ministry of the Interior, an honorary member of the Beethoven House in Bonn. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Frankfurt am Main . He was also the recipient of the Goethe Medal for Art and Science and the Golden Ring of the Deutsches Museum .

His final resting place, with his wife Berta Jakobine geb. Buschmann (1878–1967), is located in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf .

publication

  • Strasbourg men's choir and Metzer Liederkranz , Metz (1913).

literature

  • Cuno Horkenbach (Ed.): Das Deutsche Reich 1918 bis today, Berlin 1931, p. 511.
  • Rudolf Schwander : To the memory of Max Donnevert , in: Elsaß-Lothringisches Jahrbuch, Vol. XV, Frankfurt am Main 1936, pp. IX – XVI
  • Ingo Haar : Historians in National Socialism , Second Edition, 2000, ISBN 978-3-525-35942-6 , page 130, online
  • Rüdiger Hachtmann : Science Management in the "Third Reich": History of the General Administration of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society , Volume 2, Volume 15 of History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in National Socialism, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0108-5 , page 97, online

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Grübel, Special Houses Association of German Student Choral Societies (SV): Cartel address book. As of March 1, 1914. Munich 1914, p. 145.
personal data
SURNAME Donnevert, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Donnevert, Maximilian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politicians (Liberal Democrats)
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarlouis
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1936
Place of death Berlin