Medard Hartrath

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Medard Hartrath as a member of the Reichstag in 1912

Medard Hartrath (born April 12, 1858 in Vallendar ; † September 11, 1928 in Trier ) was the owner of the winery and a member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Hartrath first attended the Progymnasium in Ahrweiler and received his school-leaving certificate from the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Trier in 1878. He turned to his father's profession, pharmacy, and conditioned in southern Germany, France and Switzerland. From 1883 to 1885 he studied pharmacy and then chemistry at the universities of Munich and Freiburg . He became an active member of Catholic student associations in KV , in Munich with Saxonia and in Freiburg with K.St.V. Brisgovia. From 1885 he was a pharmacy owner in Borghorst for seven years .

In 1892 he bought the Charlottenau winery near Trier and later became a member of the Trier Chamber of Commerce, the Commercial Advisory Board in the Imperial Statistical Office in Berlin and a member of the board of the Association of Wine Traders in the Trier District and the Winegrowing Association for the Moselle, Saar and Ruwer. He was a member of the Trier city council from 1905 to 1922. There he was chairman of the center group.

From 1912 to 1918 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of Trier 3 administrative district ( Trier ) and the German Center Party .

Hartrath played an important role in political Catholicism in the Trier area. He was heavily involved in the People's Association for Catholic Germany , which campaigned for the social interests of Catholics. Hartrath was Diocesan leader in Trier and since 1910 also a member of the board of directors of the entire association in Mönchengladbach. In 1898 he was a co-founder and long-time chairman of the Albertus Magnus Association for the support of needy Catholic students.

Alfons Hartrath (1897–1979), director of the state teaching and research institute for viticulture, fruit growing and agriculture in Trier, was a son of Medard Hartrath.

literature

  • Siegfried Koß: Medard Hartrath . In: Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon des KV. 2nd part (= Revocatio historiae. Volume 3). SH-Verlag, Schernfeld 1993, ISBN 3-923621-98-1 , p. 43f.
  • R. Brüning: Medard Hartrath . In: Academic monthly sheets , 1928.
  • Emil Zenz : The City of Trier in the 20th Century, Vol. 1 . Spee-Verlag, Trier 1981, ISBN 3-87760-608-3 .
  • Medard Hartrath . In: Heinz Monz (arrangement): Trier biographical lexicon . Verlag der Landesarchivverwaltung, Koblenz 2000, ISBN 3-931014-49-5 , pages 158–159.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.rlb.de/cgi-bin/wwwalleg/goorppd.pl?db=rnam&index=1&zeilen=1&s1=pta0466
  2. ↑ Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 . Issue 2. Berlin: Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1913, p. 95 (Statistics of the German Reich, Vol. 250)
  3. ↑ http://www.geschichte-des-weines.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=269:hartrath-alfons-1897-1979&catid=45:persoenitäten-az&Itemid=83
personal data
SURNAME Hartrath, Medard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German winery owner and politician (center), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Vallendar
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1928
Place of death trier