Pius Dirr

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Pius Dirr (born November 28, 1875 in Weisingen , † January 27, 1943 in Munich ) was a German archivist and politician .

Life

Born the son of a farmer , Dirr studied history and political science in Munich, Erlangen and Berlin after attending grammar schools in Dillingen and St. Stephan in Augsburg . During his studies he became a member of the Arminia Munich fraternity in 1896 . In 1899 he was charged with a dissertation on Laxenburger Alliance for Dr. phil. PhD . After completing his studies, he worked for a short time in the publishing and newspaper industry in Berlin, before joining the Bavarian archives service in 1901 and becoming head of the Augsburg City Archives in 1903 .

He took part in the First World War as a captain . After being wounded, he was appointed to the staff of the Governor General for the General Government of Belgium Moritz von Bissing and developed into Bissings' advisor on Flemish politics , for example with the plan to make the University of Ghent Flemish.

In 1917 he became director of the Munich City Archives .

From 1912 to 1924 he was a member of parliament , first in the Chamber of Deputies , then in the Bavarian State Parliament . There he was leader of the Liberal Democratic Group , chairman of the Liberal Press Association and military advisor. He was a member of the Commission for Bavarian State History and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1922 he published the collection of Bavarian documents on the outbreak of war and the Versailles guilty verdict on behalf of the Bavarian State Parliament .

Works

  • On the history of the Imperial War Constitution and the Laxenburg Alliance. Munich: Fuller 1901, also Diss. Phil. Erlangen 1900
  • From Augsburg's past: commemorative sheets for the centenary 1806/1906. Augsburg: Commission publisher by Gebr. Reichel (1906)
  • Augsburg. Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, [1909]; 2nd edition 1917
  • The Augsburg textile industry in the 18th century. Augsburg: JA Schlosser 1911
  • Augsburg in the journalism and satire of the 18th century. Augsburg: Himmer 1914
  • Bismarck and Belgium. [sl]: [sn] Brussels (: Staatsdr.), 1915, (special copy) on April 1, 1915
  • Belgium as French Ostmark: On the prehistory of the war. Berlin: Kirstein 1917
  • Kurt Eisner's foreign policy and the Bavarian Revolution, according to unpublished secret files. Munich 1922
  • (Ed.) Bavarian documents on the outbreak of war and the Versailles guilty verdict. Munich: Mühlthaler 1922
3rd, extended edition, Munich: Oldenbourg 1925 ( digitized version , Bavarian State Library )
  • French secret policy on the Rheine: 2 official French secret reports. Munich: R. Pflaum 1923
  • Books and literature in old Munich: 1450–1800. Cultural history studies. Munich: Knorr & Hirth 1929
  • (Ed.) Monuments of the Munich city law. 2 volumes Munich 1934
  • Basics of Munich city history. Munich: Beck 1937

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: A – E. Heidelberg 1996, pp. 206-207

Web links

Wikisource: Pius Dirr  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel Vanacker: Het activist avontuur. Ghent 2006 ISBN 9789038209876 , p. 132
  2. ↑ See Bernhard Grau: Bavarian documents on the outbreak of war and the Versailles guilty verdict, 1922 , Bavarikon
personal data
SURNAME Dirr, Pius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Weisingen
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1943
Place of death Munich