Otto Keinath

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Otto Keinath
Grave at the Ebershaldenfriedhof in Esslingen

Otto Traugott Keinath (born November 22, 1879 in Hausen a. L. , Württemberg; † October 21, 1948 in Esslingen am Neckar ) was a German politician (NLP, DDP, DVP).

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After attending the Lyceum in Esslingen am Neckar and theological seminars in Maulbronn and Blaubeuren , Keinath studied mathematics , physics and economics at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . During his studies he became a member of the Normannia Tübingen Association in 1897 . He then worked for several years as an assistant teacher and senior teacher: in 1902 he became an assistant teacher at the Oberrealschule in Esslingen and in 1908 a senior teacher at the Realgymnasium in Stuttgart . Since 1905 he was mainly active in political and economic policy. In 1911 he settled as a writer in Stuttgart, where he also worked for various newspapers.

After Keinath had become a member of the National Liberal Party (NLP), which was organized as the German party in Württemberg, at the turn of the century , he took over the office of General Secretary of the party in Württemberg in 1905 . From 1912 to 1918 he was a member of his party for the constituency of Württemberg 4 ( Böblingen , Vaihingen , Leonberg , Maulbronn ) in the Reichstag of the German Empire .

From 1915 on, Keinath was a member of the board of directors of Deutsche Rentenbank as well as of numerous economic and political bodies in close contact with leading men in industry such as Albert Vögler . In 1916, Keinath became a managing presidential member of the Central Association of German Wholesalers . In 1927 he also became a managing presidential member of the Reich Association of German Wholesale and Overseas Trade . In addition, Keinath was a member of the Economic Council at the Imperial Ministry of Economics and, during the Weimar period, a member of the Provisional Reich Economic Council .

After the end of the First World War and the collapse of the German Empire, Keinath joined the German Democratic Party (DDP), in which he immediately played a leading role and was assigned to the right wing of the party. In 1920 he was elected to the first Reichstag of the Weimar Republic on his party's proposal for a Reich election. As early as October 21, 1924, however, after internal party disputes, he announced his exit from the DDP together with Eugen Schiffer and Karl Böhme , two other representatives of the right wing of the party. Unlike Böhme and Schiffer, Keinath immediately joined the German People's Party (DVP). For this he sat in the Reichstag from October 1924 to May 1928. After Keinath missed re-election in the May 1928 election, he was able to return to the Reichstag in April 1930 in the replacement procedure for the retired DVP member Johannes Wunderlich , to which he now belonged until July 1932.

In 1933, Keinath joined the NSDAP .

Fonts

  • Economic policy issues , Berlin 1914.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0 , pp. 74-75.

Notes and evidence

  1. ^ Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890-1918. Alliances, results, candidates . Second half volume. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 2007, pp. 1214–1217 ( handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties , vol. 15).
  2. ↑ Biographical article on the 65th anniversary of death from the Archives of Liberalism here online

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SURNAME Keinath, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keinath, Otto Traugott (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politicians (NLP, DDP, DVP, NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Hausen a. L. , Württemberg
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1948
Place of death Esslingen am Neckar