Otto Bezold
Otto Bezold (born May 27, 1899 in Würzburg , † November 14, 1984 in Munich ) was a German lawyer and politician ( FDP ).
Life and work
His father Andreas Bezold was a lawyer, his mother Katharina Anna Bezold geb. Graser comes from a Bamberg brewery family. When the father entered the civil service as second public prosecutor, the family moved to Augsburg . In 1917 he met Bertolt Brecht and they became friends. After his father was promoted from the Higher Regional Court to First Public Prosecutor in 1918 and transferred to Munich, Bezold stayed in Augsburg to take his Abitur in 1919. During this time Bezold and Brecht had a close friendship. Bez, as he was called by Brecht, got a skull for Brecht's apartment and Brecht dedicated the "Ballad to my skull" to him .
After graduating from high school, Bezold first studied art history, literature and history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich under Brecht's influence in 1919/20 . Bezold and Brecht became increasingly estranged and Bezold then changed subjects and studied law and economics from 1920 to 1925. As a student he traveled to various European countries. After the legal state examination in 1928, he joined the Bavarian judicial service, became a public prosecutor in 1930 and a local court advisor in Munich in 1932 . Because of his opposition to National Socialism , he was no longer promoted after 1933. Instead, he made trips to other African and Asian countries. After the Second World War , Bezold was appointed Higher Regional Court Councilor in 1945 and had been Senate President at the Munich Higher Regional Court since 1954 .
Bezold was married to Irmgard Bezold geb. Rothe and was buried at the Nordfriedhof (Munich) . Even before his death, a street in Munich / Neuperlach was named after him.
Political party
Bezold was a member of the FDP , in which he was part of the left wing. In particular, he was an opponent of efforts in the state associations of North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony and Hesse to turn the FDP into a party of the National Collection . From 1971 to 1979 he was chairman of the party-affiliated Thomas Dehler Foundation .
MP
Bezold was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament from 1946 to 1966 and from 1970 to 1974. He was chairman of the FDP parliamentary group from 1949 to 1954, from 1958 to 1962 and from 1970 to 1972 . From 1962 to 1966 he held the office of second vice-president of the state parliament. The Landtag elected him a member of the first Federal Assembly , which elected Theodor Heuss as Federal President in 1949 .
Public offices
On December 14, 1954, Bezold was appointed Minister of State for Economics and Transport to the Bavarian State Government led by Prime Minister Wilhelm Hoegner . After the formation of a coalition of the CSU , FDP and GB / BHE , he served from October 16, 1957 to December 5, 1958 as Minister of State of the Interior in the follow-up government headed by Prime Minister Hanns Seidel .
Awards
- 1959 Bavarian Order of Merit
- Large Federal Cross of Merit with star and shoulder ribbon
See also
literature
- Jürgen Hillesheim : Augsburg Brecht Lexicon. People, institutions, locations. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2000, p. 46 ff.
Web links
- Otto Bezold ( Memento from March 27, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- Literature by and about Otto Bezold in the catalog of the German National Library
- German Resistance Memorial Center : http://www.20-juli-44.de/pdf/1973_bezold.pdf Commemorative speech on July 20 (1973) (link not available)
- Location of the path named after him on Google Maps
Individual evidence
- ↑ Grave - Otto Bezold. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 14, 2015 ; Retrieved April 12, 2013 .
- ↑ Otto-Bezold-Weg. Retrieved May 13, 2020 (de-US).
Minister of Economic Affairs until 1952: Karl Arthur Lange (1945) | Ludwig Erhard (1945–1946) | Rudolf Zorn (1947) | Hanns Seidel (1947–1952)
Minister of Transport until 1952: Michael Helmerich (1946) | Otto Frommknecht (1947–1950) | Hans Ehard (1951–1952)
Economics and Transport Minister from 1952 to 2013: Hanns Seidel (1952–1954) | Otto Bezold (1954–1957) | Otto Schedl (1957-1970) | Anton Jaumann (1970–1988) | Gerold Tandler (1988) | August Lang (1988–1993) | Otto Wiesheu (1993-2005) | Erwin Huber (2005–2007) | Emilia Müller (2007-2008) | Martin Zeil (2008-2013)
Minister of Economic Affairs since 2013: Ilse Aigner (2013–2018) | Franz Josef Pschierer (2018) | Hubert Aiwanger (since 2018)
Transport Minister since 2018: Ilse Aigner (2018) | Hans Reichhart (2018-2020) | Kerstin Schreyer (since 2020)
Karl August Fischer (arr., 1945) | Josef Seifried (1945–1947) | Willi Ankermüller (1947–1950) | Wilhelm Hoegner (1950–1954) | August Geislhöringer (1954–1957) | Otto Bezold (1957–1958) | Alfons Goppel (1958–1962) | Heinrich Junker (1962–1966) | Bruno Merk (1966–1977) | Alfred Seidl (1977–1978) | Gerold Tandler (1978–1982) | Karl Hillermeier (1982–1986) | August Lang (1986–1988) | Edmund Stoiber (1988-1993) | Günther Beckstein (1993-2007) | Joachim Herrmann (since 2007)
Fritz Linnert (1946–1949) | Otto Bezold (1949–1954) | Karl Eberhardt (1954–1958) | Otto Bezold (1958–1962) | Klaus Dehler (1962–1966) | Otto Bezold (1970–1972) | Hildegard Hamm-Brücher (1972–1976) | Hans-Jürgen Jaeger (1976–1982) | Josef Grünbeck (1990–1991) | Jürgen Doeblin (1991–1994) | Martin Zeil (2008) | Thomas Hacker (2008–2013) | Martin Hagen (since 2018)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bezold, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and politician (FDP); Bavarian Minister of State |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wurzburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 14, 1984 |
| Place of death | Munich |