Otto Kneipp

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Otto Kneipp (born December 11, 1884 in Langsdorf , † May 5, 1965 in Bad Homburg in front of the height ) was a German politician of the FDP .

Life

After graduating from high school in Gießen in 1905 , Otto Kneipp studied economics , agriculture and law there . During the First World War he was a volunteer, fought on the Western Front and was wounded three times. In 1920 he received his doctorate with the thesis Agriculture in the district of Gießen . He then worked as an agriculture teacher and since 1924 as managing director of the Hochtaunus district farming community. He was the first vice president of the Chamber of Agriculture and Forestry.

In 1926 Kneipp became a community representative in Gonzenheim , where he had meanwhile moved, and shortly afterwards also a member of the district council. From 1929 to 1933 Kneipp was a member of the Prussian State Council for the Hesse-Nassau Province . On May 1, 1933, he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 2,370,781). Even after the National Socialists came to power , he remained in the municipal representation of the Gonzenheim community until it was incorporated into Bad Homburg vor der Höhe in 1937.

After the Second World War he co-founded the Obertaunus district farmers 'association and later became the first general manager of the Hessian farmers' association. He joined the FDP, for which he belonged to the German Bundestag in its first legislative period from 1949 to 1953. Here he was on the committee for finance and tax issues. From 1954 to 1958 he was a member of the State Parliament of Hesse and senior president .

On the occasion of his 75th birthday in 1959, Kneipp received the Great Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.

literature

  • Albrecht Kirschner: Final report of the working group on the preliminary study “Nazi past of former Hessian state parliament members” of the commission of the Hessian state parliament for the research project “Political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse” . Ed .: Hessischer Landtag . Wiesbaden 2013, p. 24, 59 ( Download [PDF; 479 kB ]).
  • Hans-Peter Klausch : Brown Legacy. Nazi past Hessian state parliament member 1st – 11th Electoral term (1946–1987) . The Left Group in the Hessian State Parliament, Wiesbaden 2011 ( Download [PDF; 4.2 MB ]).
  • Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 302 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
  • Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 217.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Peter Klausch : Brown legacy. Nazi past Hessian state parliament member 1st – 11th Electoral term (1946–1987) . The Left Group in the Hessian State Parliament, Wiesbaden 2011 ( Download [PDF; 4.2 MB ]).
personal data
SURNAME Kneipp, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Langsdorf
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1965
Place of death Bad Homburg vor der Höhe