Paul Bang

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Paul Bang

Paul Bang (born January 18, 1879 in Meißen , † December 31, 1945 in Hohenfichte ) was a member of the Reichstag of the DNVP and in 1933 State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Economics . He also wrote under the pseudonyms Wilhelm Meister , Spectator , Germanicus , Paul Franz and Eckart Mach .

Life

Paul Bang was the son of Simon Bang , who came from a humble background . From 1885 to 1898 he attended elementary school and high school in Schneeberg in the Ore Mountains . Until 1902 he studied law and economics at the universities of Leipzig and Berlin . Since the summer of 1898 he was a member of the Leipzig University Choir of St. Pauli (now the German Choir ). During his work as a trainee lawyer in Dippoldiswalde , Oelsnitz and Dresden from 1902 to 1906 he did his doctoratehe 1904 in Leipzig. After the second state examination in law, he worked from August 1906 to February 1911 as a court assessor and assistant judge at the district and regional court in Freiberg, Saxony . On March 1, 1911, Bang was transferred to the Saxon Ministry of Finance. Most recently Oberfinanzrat, he left the civil service voluntarily for political reasons in 1919 after the November Revolution.

In 1919, Bang joined the German National People's Party (DNVP). In 1920 Bang was involved in the anti-democratic Kapp Putsch and should become finance minister if the coup was successful.

On May 20, 1928, Bang was elected to the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic for the DNVP . Bang also held a leading position in other organizations: He was a member of the anti-Semitic nationalist Pan-German Association from 1920 and later on , in the Presidium of the United Patriotic Associations of Germany , on the board of the German State Society and the Main Conservative Association, he was still Founder and board member of the Federation for National Economy and Works Association as well as on the supervisory board of the Deutsche Zeitung . In addition, Bang was a member of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund , who published his book Judas Schuldbuch under the pseudonym Wilhelm Meister in the spring of 1919 at the Deutsche Volksverlag in Munich . A German account published in which he a historical course from the "Jewish elections" of 1912 (i.e. the Reichstag election in 1912 ) through the "Jewish War " (i.e. the First World War ) to the "Jewish Revolution" (i.e. the November Revolution) and "Jewish victory" as well "Jewish rule" claimed in Germany. The book saw several editions in the following two years, and more than 30,000 copies were distributed.

Bang belonged to the right wing of the DNVP around Alfred Hugenberg . After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, Hugenberg was Reich Economics Minister in Hitler's first cabinet. Paul Bang was from February 4, 1933 to June 30, 1933 State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Economics and thus Hugenberg's deputy. In the Reichstag , which was largely irrelevant in the era of National Socialism, Bang remained until the end of World War II represented: He ran from 1933 on the electoral lists of the Nazi Party and was first as a guest of the Nazi Party Group referred. During National Socialism, he continued to hold a number of functions in the economy: for example, he was chairman of the supervisory board of JE Reinecker AG in Chemnitz, the advisory board of Allgemeine Holzimprägnierung GmbH in Berlin, deputy chairman of the supervisory board of Emil Zorn AG in Berlin and on the board of the German World Economic Society (DWG ).

He also wrote several writings, books and articles. A two-part article by Bangs about a study trip to America organized by the DWG appeared in the February and March 1935 editions of the “ Weisse Blätter ” . An article appeared there in February 1936 in which Bang describes the negative effects of the enormous use of credit for public employment measures on the private sector. He had taken the figures for this from the Reichs-Kredit-Gesellschaft's annual report on the economic situation in Germany .

At the end of the war, Bang was captured by Soviet troops. It is not known whether he was still in custody when he died on New Year's Eve 1945.

literature

  • Paul Bang, with Heinrich Claß and Graf von der Goltz , as editors: Germany's renewal. Monthly for the German people. Lehmann , Munich
  • Martin Döring: "Parliamentary arm of the movement". The National Socialists in the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic (= contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties. , Volume 130) Droste, Düsseldorf 2001. ISBN 3-7700-5237-4
  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , p. 19.
  • Anton Ritthaler:  Bang, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 575 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Martin Schumacher: MdR The members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933-1945. A biographical documentation. 3rd extended edition, Droste, Düsseldorf 1994. ISBN 3-7700-5183-1
  • Max Schwarz : MdR. Biographical handbook of the German Reichstag. Hanover 1965

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the common authority file (GND)
  2. ↑ Complete directory of the Paulines from summer 1822 to summer 1938, Leipzig 1938, page 114
  3. ^ A b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 27.
  4. ↑ Walter Jung: Ideological requirements, contents and goals of foreign policy programs and propaganda in the German national movement in the early years of the Weimar Republic: the example of the German national protection and defensive association . University of Göttingen 2001, p. 29.
  5. ↑ Uwe Lohalm: Völkischer Radikalismus: The history of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutz-Bund. 1919-1923 . Leibniz-Verlag, Hamburg 1970, p. 180. ISBN 3-87473-000-X .
  6. ↑ occupied: 21st year, issue 5, May 1937
personal data
SURNAME Bang, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DNVP), MdR, 1933 State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Economics
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Meissen
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1945
Place of death Hohenfichte