Peter Reinhold

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Peter Paul Reinhold (born December 1, 1887 in Blasewitz near Dresden , † April 1, 1955 in Capri , Italy ) was a German publisher and politician ( DDP ).

Life and work

He grew up as the son of General Director HL Reinhold and his wife Gertrud Staudinger. One of the mother's ancestors was Lucas Andreas Staudinger , who had fought against serfdom around 1800 . After graduating from high school in 1906 at the Vitzthum-Gymnasium in Dresden , Reinhold studied history , economics , ethnology and art history in Rome , Geneva , Freiburg im Breisgau , Berlin and Leipzig . It was in 1910 with the work of The indignation of King Henry VII. Against his father in Leipzig Dr. phil. PhD .

He then went abroad and from 1913 headed the Leipziger Tageblatt publishing house , which he sold to Ullstein Verlag in 1921 . He also founded the publishing house Der Neue Geist together with Kurt Wolff . He also took over the magazine European Review . He also worked as a writer during these years . Since June 4, 1917 he was married to Caroline Merck, the daughter of Karl Emanuel Merck and his wife Clara Blanckarts, who came from the well-known family from Darmstadt .

In the late phase of the Weimar Republic , Reinhold was a member of the supervisory board of several companies and the founder of the Central Bank of German Industrialists in October 1928. This bank had the task of organizing medium-sized US loans for German companies. In 1927/28 he traveled to the United States , where he gave lectures on the Dawes Plan a . a. held at the Williamstown Institute of Politics . From 1930 to 1933 he worked as a manager at the Vossische Zeitung . During the Nazi era, he was chairman of the supervisory board of a pulp and paper factory in Hirschberg and operations manager of a paper factory in Halle (Saale) .

After the Second World War , Reinhold moved to West Germany , where he worked as a writer and as a private lecturer at Yale University and the University of Oxford . From 1953 until his death he was chairman of the supervisory board of E. Merck AG in Darmstadt.

Political party

Reinhold joined the DDP after the First World War . Since 1930 he was a member of the German State Party (DStP), in which the DDP was absorbed.

MP

Reinhold belonged to the Saxon People's Chamber and the Saxon State Parliament from 1919 to 1924 . From May 1928 to July 1932 he was a member of the Reichstag . In parliament he represented the constituency of Hessen-Nassau .

Public offices

Reinhold served from April 6 to December 13, 1920 and from January 4, 1924 to January 27, 1926 as Saxon State Minister of Finance in the state governments headed by Georg Gradnauer , Wilhelm Buck and Max Heldt . He dedicated himself particularly to the expansion of the hydropower plants in Saxony. In 1929 he lived in Dresden- Loschwitz , in the Villa Diana, Plattleite 5.

On January 19, 1926, he was appointed Reich Minister of Finance to the government led by Chancellor Hans Luther and was also a member of the subsequent government led by Chancellor Wilhelm Marx . In the spring of 1926 he carried out a tax cut in Luther's second cabinet.

With the formation of a coalition of the center , BVP , DVP and DNVP , he left the Reich government on January 28, 1927 and was replaced in his office by Heinrich Köhler . After the National Socialists came to power , he withdrew from active politics. In 1935 he lived in Berlin-Dahlem , Heideweg 9.

Member of the Supervisory Board in 1929

Fonts

  • The peacock day. 1909.
  • Rügers black vision. 1911.
  • Indignation of Henry VII against his father. 1911.
  • The Reichstag parties. 1912.
  • German financial and economic policy. Speech given on April 23, 1927 in Hamburg, Leipzig 1927.
  • The Economic, Financial and Political State of Germany Since the War. New Haven 1928.

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SURNAME Reinhold, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reinhold, Peter Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher and politician (DDP), MdR, Reich Minister
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Blasewitz near Dresden
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1955
Place of death Capri , Italy