Michael Horlacher

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Michael Horlacher (born January 18, 1888 in Pottenstein ; † October 12, 1957 in Bad Tölz ) was a German politician ( BVP , later CSU ).

Life and work

Horlacher studied law and political science in Munich and became a member of the KDStV Langobardia in the CV . In October 1914 he joined during the First World War as a volunteer in the 6th Field Artillery Regiment "Prince Ferdinand of Bourbon, Duke of Calabria" the Bavarian Army in Fürth one, but was already released in early December invalidity.

He then worked until the spring of 1917 as an employee at the Bavarian State Statistical Office or at the Bavarian Food Office, which is subordinate to it. From 1917 to 1918 he was the economic editor at the Munich-Augsburger Abendzeitung . In 1919 he was managing director of the association of agricultural associations and the agricultural industry in Bavaria and - in addition to Karl Mayr , Karl Graf von Bothmer , Gottfried Feder , Joseph Hofmiller and other people - speaker at political propaganda courses, which were organized in cooperation between the Reichswehr and the Bavarian office of the Reich headquarters for Homeland service in the Munich University were carried out. From 1920 to 1933 he acted as director of the newly created Bavarian Chamber of Agriculture (Chamber of Agriculture for Bavaria). After the National Socialists came to power , Horlacher was retired in 1933 for political reasons. He was arrested in 1933 and 1944 and spent the last months of the war in Dachau concentration camp .

After the war he was director of the Bavarian Raiffeisen Association and State Commissioner for the agricultural cooperative system and in 1945 he participated in the re-establishment of the Bavarian Farmers Association . His son Hellmut Horlacher succeeded him as President of the Bavarian Raiffeisen Association.

Political party

Horlacher belonged to the Bavarian People's Party before 1933. In 1945 he took part in the founding of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria. From 1948 to 1951 he was deputy CSU chairman.

Within the CSU, Horlacher led the "peasant wing" or "peasant association wing", which pursued an independent policy between the Christian-interdenominational wing around Josef Müller and the Catholic-conservative wing around Alois Hundhammer .

MP

From 1920 to 1925 Horlacher was a member of the Bavarian state parliament and from 1924 to 1933 a member of the Reichstag for the Bavarian People's Party. In this capacity he also approved Hitler's Enabling Act .

From 1946 to 1950 he was again a member of the Bavarian State Parliament ; until the resignation of his mandate on February 8, 1950 due to his election to the German Bundestag , he was also President of the Landtag. From 1947 to 1949 he was a member of the Parliamentary Council of the State Council of the American Occupation Area . He belonged to the German Bundestag in the first two legislative periods ( 1949 -1957) and represented the constituency Forchheim in Parliament. In 1952 he was one of the group of Bavarian MPs who unsuccessfully applied for Article 102 of the Basic Law to be changed with the aim of reintroducing the death penalty for certain offenses . In 1956/57 he was deputy chairman of the parliamentary committee of inquiry for the examination of processes in the import and storage center for fats .

His saying: "As an individual woman looks like a flower in parliament, but in the crowd like weeds" became a trademark of his coarse peasant rhetoric .

Honors

Works (selection)

  • The agricultural program of the German social democracy . Publishing house Dr. Pfeiffer, Munich 1923.
  • Alcohol crime in Bavaria from 1910 to 1913 . In: Journal of the Royal Bavarian State Statistical Office. Volume 47, 1915, pp. 16-20.
  • Introduction to Agricultural Policy . Bayerischer Landwirtschaftsverlag, Munich 1951.
  • The preservation of agriculture (series of publications by the Bavarian Chamber of Agriculture, Volume 2). Verlag Pössenbacher, Munich 1924.
  • Determination and explanation of the agricultural land price movement in the area of ​​the Lower Bavarian district offices of Griesbach, Pfarrkirchen and Eggenfelden 1900 to 1910 . In: Lujo Brentano (ed.): Price movement of agricultural goods in some parts of Bavaria during the years 1900 to 1910 (writings of the Association for Social Policy, Volume 148). Topos-Verlag, Vaduz 1992, ISBN 3-289-00576-3 , pp. 1–166 (reprint of the Munich 1914 edition)

literature

  • Hilde Balke: The Presidents of the Bavarian State Parliament. From 1946 to 1994. Bavarian State Parliament, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-927924-23-7 .
  • Johann Kirchinger: Dr. Michael Horlacher (1888-1957). In: Founders and Startups. Articles and selected documents on the cooperative movement. (Series of publications on the history of the cooperative, Volume 7). Mediengruppe Universal, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-00-018710-3 , pp. 162-193.
  • Johann Kirchinger: Michael Horlacher. An agricultural functionary in the Weimar Republic. (= Contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties, Volume 159), Droste, Düsseldorf 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv IV , war log roll No. 13978
  2. ↑ a b c d Hitler's entry into politics and the Reichswehr. Documentation. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte . 7th year, 1959, issue 2, p. 191 f. ( PDF )
personal data
SURNAME Horlacher, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (BVP, CSU), MdR, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Pottenstein (Upper Franconia)
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1957
Place of death Bad Tölz