Paul Tafel (engineer)

Paul Tafel (* 1872 , † 1953 ) was a German mechanical engineer , author and national politician.

Life

Panel studied engineering and graduated with a doctorate of Doctor of Engineering from. He worked for the machine factory Augsburg-Nürnberg and rose there up to director. He was also a member of the board of directors of the Bavarian Industrial Association .

Tafel is politically active in the Pan-German Association and, after the First World War, in its anti-Semitic offshoot, the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund . He was also a member of the Thule Society . In 1918, Tafel played an important role in the early phase of National Socialism as a mentor to the toolmaker and DAP founder Anton Drexler .

After the Kapp Putsch in 1920, he took part in the founding of the “ Bavarian Ordnungsblock ”, an association of forty nationalist-ethnic organizations, of which he later became chairman. In June 1920 he stood for the Bavarian Middle Party , to whose Munich branch he maintained close contacts, in Upper Bavaria for the state and Reichstag elections .

Tafel advocated a council state on a national basis, which was supposed to replace the “sham democracy of the Western powers” ​​with a “German socialism” and a “German democracy”. The Weimar Republic should become a corporate state are converted. In 1922, the United Patriotic Associations emerged from the regulatory bloc , and the right-wing radical General Erich Ludendorff assumed their patronage . After the latter, together with the leader of the NSDAP Adolf Hitler , attempted a failed putsch ( Hitler putsch ) against the republic on November 8, 1923 , the NSDAP, its affiliated associations and press products were banned. During this time, Tafel briefly took over the editor-in-chief of the Großdeutsche Zeitung , a successor body to the Völkischer Beobachter . In 1924 he was convicted by the Munich jury court for a press offense (insulting the Reichswehr because of their attitude in the Hitler putsch). From 1928 to 1931 he was department head at the Reich Board of Trustees for Economic Efficiency . In 1931 he moved to Tyrol .

Fonts

• The North American Trusts and Their Effects on the Advancement of Technology. Wittwer, Stuttgart 1913. (Dissertation)
• The new Germany. A council state on a national basis . Deutscher Volksverlag , Munich 1920.
• Our political and economic situation. Report of the chairman of the Bavarian regulatory block Dr. Paul Tafel, created in a committee meeting of the BOB on November 3, 1921 . Office of the Bavarian Ordnungsblock, Munich 1921.
• Our political and economic situation. Report of the chairman of the Bavarian regulatory block Dr. Paul Tafel, drawn up at a meeting of the extended federal committee of the BOB on February 17, 1922 . Office of the Bavarian Ordnungsblock, Munich 1922.
• Parliamentarism and popular representation . JF Lehmanns Verlag , Munich 1922.
• The price increase. Their causes and how to overcome them . Th. Weicher, Leipzig 1922.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kurt Bauer : National Socialism. Origins, Beginnings, Rise and Fall . Böhlau, Vienna, p. 92
2. ^ Hans Fenske: Bayerischer Ordnungsblock (BOB), 1920-1923. In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria . October 25, 2009, accessed February 25, 2015 . 
3. ^ Elina Kiiskinen: The German National People's Party in Bavaria (Bavarian Middle Party) in the government policy of the Free State during the Weimar period . Beck, Munich 2005, p. 179, FN 56.
4. ↑ Gerhard Schulz: Rise of National Socialism. Crisis and Revolution in Germany , Propylaea, Frankfurt am Main 1975, p. 175.
5. ^ Paul Hoser: Großdeutsche Zeitung. In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria . February 28, 2011, accessed February 25, 2015 . 
6. ↑ Lothar Gruchmann (Ed.): The Hitler Trial in 1924. Wording of the main hearing before the Munich People's Court, Part 4, 19. – 25. Negotiation day . Saur, Munich 1999, p. 1657.