Otto Leers

Otto Hermann Josef Leers (born March 12, 1875 in Heidelberg ; † December 30, 1942 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German lawyer , ministerial official and politician ( DDP ).

Life

After graduating from high school in 1894, Leers did military service as a one-year volunteer until 1895 . He then began studying law at the universities in Munich , Berlin and Heidelberg , which he completed in 1899 with the first state examination in law. During his studies he joined the Rupertia association in Heidelberg . He was a legal trainee from the spring of 1899, joined the Baden state service in the same year and completed his legal clerkship in the following period. In 1902 he passed the second state examination in law.

Leers worked from 1906 to 1908 as a bailiff in Bruchsal and then exercised this function in Constance . From 1911 he worked as a research assistant in the Baden Ministry of the Interior in Karlsruhe , where he was appointed to the government council in 1913. In August 1917, he was promoted to senior bailiff and then acted as the head of the Triberg district office . In July 1919 he returned as a ministerial advisor to the Baden Ministry of the Interior, where he was appointed Ministerial Director in November 1921. In 1932 he was transferred to temporary retirement.

From November 23, 1926 until his resignation on November 20, 1929, Leers served as Minister for Culture and Education in the state government of the Republic of Baden . In the state elections in October 1929 he was elected for the DDP in the state parliament of the Republic of Baden , to which he belonged until his resignation on April 11, 1932. Leopold Neumann succeeded him as a member of parliament .

From 1932 to 1934 Leers was President of the German Stage Association .

See also

• Cabinet Koehler II - Cabinet Remmele II - Cabinet Schmitt I

literature

• Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? 9th edition, Leipzig 1928, p. 920.
• Wolfram Angerbauer (Red.): The heads of the upper offices, district offices and district offices in Baden-Württemberg from 1810 to 1972 . Published by the working group of the district archives at the Baden-Württemberg district assembly. Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8062-1213-9 , pp. 377 .

Web links

• Speeches by Otto Leers in the Baden state parliament in the digital collections of the Badische Landesbibliothek

Individual evidence

1. ^ President of the German Stage Association. Deutscher Bühnenverein: Federal Association of Theaters and Orchestras, accessed on December 1, 2013 .