Oscar Meyer (politician, 1876)

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Oscar Meyer (born December 18, 1876 in Berlin , † January 1, 1961 in Oakland ) was a German lawyer, economic functionary and a leading left-liberal politician during the Weimar Republic .

Life

The son of the entrepreneur Hermann Meyer and Clara, b. Levy, attended the Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium in Breslau from 1885 to 1894 . After graduating from high school, he studied law in Breslau , Freiburg and Berlin from 1894 to 1898 . After completing the usual legal training and gaining a doctorate in 1891, he joined the Chamber of Commerce in Berlin in 1904. Between 1905 and 1933 he was the syndic of this institution. He was also a member of the chamber's civil servants' committee and in-house counsel for the Association of Breweries for Berlin and the surrounding area.

Oscar Meyer belonged to the Free People's Party or the Progressive People's Party and had been a member of the Charlottenburg City Council since 1908 . He was head of the free-thinking district association and the election association for Charlottenburg and the surrounding area. He was also the founder of the liberal youth association " Eugen Richter ". Between 1915 and 1918 Meyer was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives . During the Weimar Republic, in addition to his work at the Chamber of Commerce, Meyer was also a member of the supervisory boards of Mendelsohn & Co., Amsterdamer Bank, Gebrüder Simon AG and Braunkohle AG. Until 1933 Meyer was also a member of the Berlin Stock Exchange Board .

Meyer was a member of the Berlin city council and was deputy head of the city council in 1925. He was also a member of the Charlottenburg district council assembly. Between 1919 and 1921 Meyer was a member of the Prussian state constituent assembly for the German Democratic Party . During this time he was also "parliamentary" undersecretary and later state secretary in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior. From 1924 to 1932 Meyer was a member of the Reichstag for the DDP or, after it was renamed, the German State Party . He held the office of executive chairman of the Reichstag parliamentary group from 1929 to 1930. In addition to his party political functions, Meyer belonged to the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold and the Democratic Club of Berlin.

After the beginning of National Socialist rule , Oscar Meyer, who came from a Jewish family but was baptized as a Protestant, emigrated first to Amsterdam , then to Zurich . In 1939 he went to Great Britain and in 1940 to Colombia and from there to the USA . Meyer was chairman of the “Berkeleyer Juristenkreis” there.

In addition to his professional and political activities, Meyer has been an author since the time of the German Empire. Among other things, he wrote a new comment on the Stock Exchange Act. He also wrote an autobiography entitled From Bismarck to Hitler .

Honors

Fonts

  • Stock Exchange Act and its implementing provisions of June 22, 1896 / May 8, 1908. 3., completely revised. Edition of the formerly ed. by Th. Hemptenmacher. Berlin 1915.
  • From Bismarck to Hitler. Memories and reflections. New York 1944, 2nd edition 1948.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ In some sources the year of death 1965 is mentioned.
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Oscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economic functionary and politician (DDP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1961
Place of death Oakland